To the people who are in therapy and on their recovery journey when the ocd is tending to die down a bit is it normal for the ocd to keep switching themes until it fully dissipates? Has anyone experienced this?
Yeah sort of, I’m in my relapse but yeah it just tries to find new things to scare you and if it doesn’t then your brain calms down
@Ericseal18 I’m also in a relapse /: haven’t had this for 8 years
@Dreamydream Is it one thought or how it for you?
@Ericseal18 Nooo i relapsed with harm ocd and it was really intense the last few weeks with a million different thoughts, scenarios, anxiety, urges. It was towards others/ loved ones pretty intensely then this last week it switched toward myself and now it’s switching to more disturbing sexual thoughts and a mix of just everything now but they feel less intense now so idk if that means it’s subsiding soon?? Wbu?
@Dreamydream So me personally I have one main thought to “kill mom” and things that surround it. A lot of it I think deeply is just anxiety and what not but yeah just that thought I think.
@Ericseal18 When this relapse first started my harm OCD was mainly based towards my mom too When did u start ur relapse and how ru feeling now?
@Dreamydream I have a problem already with repetitive noises and the thought seems to be the same
Like mid January it was definitely a lot worse then but I just can’t stand it being in my head 24/7
@Ericseal18 Is it making you feel like not like yourself like u kinda just feel off and weird?
@Dreamydream Yes, 24/7
@Ericseal18 Wonder when we will feel like ourselves again /:
@Dreamydream Idk man I just try to be patient and focus on the day to day things because time is precious
@Ericseal18 Ur right sorry
@Dreamydream No your good brother! Just be patient with your thoughts and you got it. If you felt like yourself before it’s possible again.
@Ericseal18 True (: how long has it been before ur relapse?
@Dreamydream It went away for like 5 months or something
before you read this, its long and kind of all over the place so I apologize in advance for any confusion!! sorry if it sounds like I'm being pushy and if you don't feel comfy answering this you do not have to answer. so, about the thoughts about other people minus the sexual ones, is it making you think of physical AND emotional ways to hurt somebody or is it one or the other? I think identifying that difference might help you a little bit coming up with things you could try to do to counteract the thoughts and drive them out. I don't know if that's how you handle your but it helps me with non-OCD related things too so it might work well for you. if you didn't mean for this post to be a way for you to find new skills, I do apologize for misinterpreting it and maybe coming off the wrong way. if you posted this for other people with specific harm OCD to share with you, I apologize if I made you feel bad, or anything negative that wasn't my intention. if you don't feel comfortable sharing more with me that is perfectly fine. I'll still be here to listen to what you're comfortable with me knowing. I wish you the absolute best of luck with your journey through this. If you want me to pray for you I will. if you don't want me to, I'll respect your wishes. if me talking about this sort of stuff makes you uncomfortable (which is perfectly fine, I don't blame you) please let me know so I can delete this and if you want it rewritten, I can do that too. if you think there is anything I can do to help just let me know what that is and I'll do everything I can to make that happen. Sorry about making my message long I could summarize it if I wrote too much. if it's hard to understand what I'm saying since there's so much to read, I get it, I can talk about too many things and still not get my point across. I'll do whatever I can to help you through this. I care about what you're going through right now and your feelings matter to me. I am so proud of you for reaching out for help because that is a huge step in the right direction. You are so strong for being able to share about your relapse and that just shows that you may be relapsing, but you were able to reach out for help in crisis. even though it may not seem like a big thing (if your thoughts are also directed toward negative self-talk to make you feel like you aren't getting better, I'm sorry if I'm wrong), but it really truly is so huge because you spoke up about how you're struggling to get help, and you didn't act on the thoughts! I apologize for how dang long this is I tried to shorten it as best as I could. I wish you the best of luck through this and anything else you ever go through. You got this and you can get through this. It might not feel that way now, but it gets better. I believe in you. I will be here if you want to talk. Best of luck my friend (what are your pronouns btw? or are you okay with it if I call you queen or king? I don't want to assume, and I like referring to people like that sometimes bc it might make them feel better. If you don't feel comfortable with that that's okay. if there's something you'd rather be called like.) I also have dad jokes that are stupid to the point they're funny and just jokes I can tell if that is something that helps you <3
I think I’m in the recovery stage as my thoughts have settled so much & I only get intrusive thoughts on occasion and get worse only when I’m anxious, but the quietness in my brain feels so weird & I feel awful saying that because all I wanted was the thoughts to stop. This is the most quiet it’s been it’s over 7 months, so to go from non stop thoughts for a long time to quietness I don’t know how to take it. Has anyone else felt like this in recovery
Im still searching about pure o ocd while I still look for a specialized therapist so that's why I'm asking the following thing lol Is normal to have months and/or years without an ocd episode? I noticed I had a considerable amount of episodes in all my living years but sometimes they took a year or a bit more than a year to appear, in worse scenarios I noticed the took just months to appear once again Is that normal? Im kinda feeling guilty about it because I notice some people live 24/7 with ocd since they are kids while my thing is more like, episodically, not 24/7 since I was born? My last episode started in August of last year and is still haunting me but I know people had it worsened since their earlier years of life
Themes constantly switching. I’ve been suffering with real event ocd the last year and am currently in therapy treating it. it’s nowhere near as bad as it was last year and it’s felt like a nice break. there’s days where it gets bad but i can’t compare it to the stress of last year. However i’ve noticed every time i overcome a theme a new one hits me out of nowhere. i’ve suffered with ocd since i was 9, and ive had multiple themes. i’m in a 2 year relationship with my partner and it’s amazing. she’s probably my second proper relationship due to the fact my first relationship gave me so much fear to get into another one as i was cheated on, and needed a few years to get over that. i kind of guessed that ROCD would creep in at some point as it just felt inevitable. anyways, i know my partner is not cheating on me, she’s beyond loyal, we are so so in love but i think due to that first relationship i had, being cheated on really messed with my head. it’s like my brain is telling me my partner has someone else even though i know in my heart nothings going on, and i trust her with my life. i also think because im in the happiest relationship of my life, anything that would indicate loosing her makes me feel sick and riddled with anxiety. and i know that’s completely normal for everyone. i think the most frustrating thing is, is knowing that my OCD has finally crept into my relationship which is something i never wanted it to do. this is a brand new theme and i have no idea how to treat this. i will speak to my therapist but if anyone has been through this theme and any advice in the meantime i would really appreciate it :).
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