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- 15w
Harm ocd
I have all kinds of thoughts that aren’t me it feels like someone is talking to me telling me evil things about people or to do evil things 😞😞😞😞 I can’t do this anymore
I have all kinds of thoughts that aren’t me it feels like someone is talking to me telling me evil things about people or to do evil things 😞😞😞😞 I can’t do this anymore
You are okay. You really are. This is just OCD. That’s all it is. And you can beat it through treatment!! Have you tried ERP therapy? That can really help you get out of this
Are you letting the thoughts flow freely through your head? That is really important. If you try to fight off the thoughts, they only get worse. You need to train your brain that you don’t care if the thoughts are there or not. Let the thoughts scream at you all day if they want to. That’s fine. You are not going to care if the thoughts are there or not. My therapist explained it like this. Imagine a tree planted by a river. The leaves fall from the tree and float down the river. You watch them fall and float away, but you don’t do anything about them. The same is true with your thoughts. You can notice that they are there, but you shouldn’t try to stop them, push them away, or fix them. Just let them be in your head. Let them get angry and tell you whatever they want. They don’t matter. They are just thoughts. Then you can go and live your life, no matter what the thoughts are doing.
@Tea and Honey What about when you wake up with intense fear and intense anxiety with the thoughts like anxiety is 100 out of a 10 it makes the thoughts feel so much more intense and I can’t seem to stop the anxiety
@Hope1 It doesn’t matter how intense the thoughts are. The thoughts are just thoughts. They don’t mean anything. So treat them with ERP no matter how intense they are
I feel the same, it is hard. Its especially difficult emotionally when it is about people you care about, family or otherwise. My OCD can switch from intrusive entirely false thoughts about myself, or that certain people in my family are horrible people. I realize iVe been irrationally thinking these thoughts for a long time, never believing them but they are hard to let go of. It also tends to happen when I try to envision a positive interaction with them in times when I am lonely. Its all messed up because I feel it has ruined my relationships with..pretty much everyone in my life. Unable to be the person I want to be around them.
I feel the same! It will pass!!
I’m out of energy my cod feels at its worst I actually feel like I’m bad and there is something wrong with me I feel numb I can’t cry or be anxious over anything and I don’t know what to do because I don’t feel normal now it feels like I’m bad. I had this stabbing thought which I after started deliberately imaging to test myself but instead it felt like I like the feeling and know how it feels to stab someone then I was getting this feeling that I liked it wanted it or would enjoy it and it felt extremely real like i wanted it because it would feel ‘good’ I cant explain it but it suddenly felt like I enjoy or want it almost like I wanted to feel the feeling of doing that bad thing because I ‘like it’ I have no energy I can’t get over that feeling because it now felt like I actually wanted it I don’t know what is going on I’m worrying now I will actually want that to know how it is or as if I’ve discovered what evil people like or why they enjoy it and now I’m so lost and confused and I feel numb I don’t even know if I want or don’t want it and people always say with ocd they feel like they want it but they know deep down it’s against their morals or they would never do that but it literally feels like I don’t know now and it felt like a real feeling that I thought there was something good or enjoyable about doing that thing and I’m concerned I’ve had ocd for 2/3 years now and I’ve gone through crying and being upset and all the different emotions of having it and now I’m experiencing this and worried if I’ve changed and what if I’m actually evil now or have come to like evil things from imagining it and I want to talk to someone I don’t know what to do the other day it felt really real that it was about to happen and that I wanted to and I was getting this sick feeling that I was happy or liked it. Please I need advice I can’t get over this and move on because it feels like it wasn’t ocd and that feeling still happens and how can I ignore it and even if I try to ignore it I can’t because it felt real that I liked it and now it feels like there’s no going back if it felt like I actually liked it 🙁🙁
Someone please help me I’m having intrusive thoughts of hurting my pets and I’m really scared of myself and I want these thoughts to go away. Can someone please help me I’m scared and I don’t know if I’m a monster
Im sleeping over my boys house and im having bad thoughts to hurt him and it’s like I can see myself acting on it. I never want to hurt anyone… I hope someone can comment or give me advice as I lie in bed watching crime documentary. It messes with my OCD creates false fantasies
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