Does anyone else's OCD play really gruesome nasty movie scenes in their heads over and over to torment you (even if you haven't actually watched the movie all the way through/seen it in a long time) almost to say "this is what's going to happen to you."
Very classic intrusive thoughts. They suck!
Yes. I've had those that pop up more often than the awful events I've witnessed and experienced. I realized it's because I didn't let it really play through so when I do for those intrusive thoughts or Flashbacks without adding additional content to it, the brain finally registers "Oh so that's where I archive it, it's a negative memory in the ew Gross section". It's some kind of inefficient bureaucracy happening there that makes it difficult with the lack of logic, emotional and communicating barriers, yet very simple conclusion. If only it was just a light switch with "NOPE!" yet the brain acts like it can't do any next step until it knows what to do with that scene.
Omg yes or I get horrible images of me on a mugshot and the thought”that’s gonna be you soon” pops up it’s the worst
I used to get these at night, I dislike gore and before I sleep I would be thinking something nice and then blam, a horrible gorey image just interrupts. Movie scenes were a factor in these
Oh definitely! But the extremely violent or gorey scenes are about the people I am closest too. My mom, Dad, Brother and Girlfriend. It really really sucks. When it first started I didn’t know ocd was a thing. Definitely thought I was evil/loosing my mind. Something that helped me was learning about “the ironic process of the mind or The imp of the mind” which is just the idea that the more you try to not think about something the more you end up thinking about it. Essentially the more you push back against your thoughts the more they show up.
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
I’m curious how many other people experience this! I’ve been diagnosed with severe OCD for 20 years now, about 10 years ago my little OCD brain came up with a series of words. It is saying everyone in my families name and then something negative, and then something positive. Since my brain attached to this series of words, it hasn’t stopped repeating in my mind. Like I said, it’s been 10 years, and this “phrase” is constantly repeating over and over in my head. When it’s finished, it just restarts again. My brain is constantly exhausted since it’s always talking. It’s kinda hard to word this so idk if it’ll make sense to you but let me know if this is something that you might experience as well!
Having ocd that I’m gonna become this horror movie guy, how do I fix this lol it’s crazy
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