- Date posted
- 10d ago
damn
i think my intrusive thoughts are real. what do i do now man
i think my intrusive thoughts are real. what do i do now man
just know that's ocd trying to trick you, sit with that thought, don't reassure yourself, just let it be there and do your best not to engage with it, it will fade. You are going great!
@Bohorquez14 thank you. but i’ve tried that for the past few months and its not getting better. what if this is really who i am
@yuliana.777 It's not if it was really who you are, having those thoughts wouldn't bother you like they are. When they come in try reverse psychology on them, just be like ok whatever, sure, maybe that will happen. I promise it will get better you won't feel like this forever.
Always remember that you and your ocd thoughts are different. You are a separate individual with a real personality while your ocd thoughts are imaginary and they are not real. They are just hypothetical things, things that have not happened yet and won't happen in future too. Always see yourself and your ocd thoughts as two separate things. You are real and good, your ocd thoughts are just imaginary.
I’ve overcome this and i know it seems like your intrusive thoughts are 100% real even when people tell you they’re not but i promise they’re not and i cannot stress that enough. What rlly helped me was thinking of it from a logical perspective. For example if i believed that a certain action would lead to something i would think “Logically thats not possible. Someone doing (x) doesnt lead to (x)”
They are not real. Don’t even consider that they are real
Just know that they aren't real no matter how real they are.
@LILBOIIBRENT but what if they are (im sorry ik i shouldnt be asking this but the fear is so strong)
@yuliana.777 The what ifs are ocd. If you're questj9ning something chances are its and ocd trap thought. Ocd is a liar and a manipulator. It's going to convince of things you would never wish on your worst enemy.
my therapist suggested that some of my less bad rocd intrusive thoughts are actually mine, and not intrusive. She ended up taking it back when she saw the alarm on my face and saw how panicked I got. I feel really freaking anxious. We were only talking about it because I mentioned a lot of doubt surrounding those less bad ones, but it only filled me with more doubt. I don’t want those thoughts to be mine. I really don’t. I feel scared and so discouraged after this session. I feel scared about the worst thoughts, what if those aren’t intrusive. I feel so much doubt.
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
Ii spoke w my bf this weekend and he mentioned that he has thoughts just like me, but his don't bother him like me. I then felt a lot better and he tried dissecting one of his thoughts like I usually do and realized it felt more real for him after. That made me realize that none of my thoughts were ever true and I blew them up. However, yesterday I had a thought ab “wait wut if you liked that one guy? How dare you bc youre supposed to love your bf and not secretly like someone else” and treated it as I usually did bc I accidentally wanted to see if it was true but didn't rlly but I would check to see if it was there and now that thought feels so so so real now and I feel really bad how do Ik it's not real? I feel so bad and guilty bc lividly this makes 0 sense but it feels so prominent. It felt pretty real when it happened yesterday too. And now I feel awful bc how is it possible after my clarity the other day? Why does it feel so prominent 😞😞😞
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