Intrusive thoughts are unwanted and cause stress which mine do but also when I’m mad I get this rage feeling and say I wanna stab someone like that feels like a. Want not intrusive why am I saying “ I wanna “ :(
It’s not a want because you will go to prison for a long time also, you feel bad about these thoughts, I was a drug addict and I had those thoughts like almost trying to force me to do it, I get thoughts like what if I actually had done it :( I’m extremely upset I don’t want to have these thoughts anymore, turns out I didn’t do it but I still get those what if thoughts. And it scares me bad.
@Love 777 Me too !
For me, it helps to connect it to something I value. So like, my Harm OCD revolved around killing my pets for a while and I’d have intense images with it. It was horrible. A big thing that helped was realizing 1) it’s a fear — not a want and 2) it’s my mind’s way of reminding me how much I CARE about my pets and how empathetic I am. So now it’s easier to address the thoughts as they come. They’re rare now, so when they do pop up it’s just quickly being like “thank you mind for reminding me I value my little family so much and that I want to be such a great caretaker.”
These are normal intrusive thoughts. Here is the KEY. 🔑 You have to remember that the THOUGHTS DON’T MEAN ANYTHING. It doesn’t matter if those thoughts are in your head or not. When the thoughts come, tell yourself, “Yay, I’m having my stabbing thoughts again. These thoughts can stay all day if they want to.” Allowing the thoughts to run freely through your head is key 🔑!! Don’t try to fight them off. Just let the thoughts run. They don’t matter.
Is it possible that you make these posts about your specific thoughts as a confessing and reassurance-seeking compulsion? That sadly is gonna continue to make your OCD worse :(
@OneDayAtATimee Idk I just wanna feel like I’m not alone and tbh reassurance is the only reason I haven’t ended it yet
I have this issue where I can vividly imagine hurting others or animals or say things OUTLOUD that may be disruptive or disrespectful becauss I am overstimulated by soemthing someone is doing or saying. So, Over stimulation with people and animals and things they do can be a big part of it, Sometimes I will see soemthing that bothers me about someone and I just want to either fix it or hit them because they make me so overstimulated I just want to hit the problem. I never act on these things obviously but SOMETIMES it leaks out and I hit my hands together to calm the urges. I really don’t like imagining hurting others but when I get mad I obsess over what I would or could do to them or might or would’ve in a situation in the past, had it planned out differently. I keep thinking about it and thinking about it and then get upset with myself because I know it’s wrong to be thinking about hurting others and it worries me I may someday act on something impulsive and harm someone. Sometimes I cry about it because I never want to hurt people. Really I don’t. Most of these thoughts happen in milliseconds and I have a second part in my brain like a THOUGHT processor/auto corrective thinking reminding me I can’t do that because it’s morally wrong and I am too good of a person to do that and there is nothing to stress over.
does anyone else get really vivid intrusive thoughts of the person who you are talking to (or close to physically) just randomly striking you violently? i keep getting them when i’m just talking to my dad one on one in the car & i get a flash of intrusive thoughts of him grabbing my hair & shoving my face in the dashboard. it gets me so anxious :’)
Earlier I had what felt like an urge but I’m not sure. I’ve had urges before but this felt different as the object was in front of me (not intentional btw) , I’ve been quite stressed lately and my OCD is latching on to that. I had an urge to harm and within that I had like 2/3 intrusive images that came to mind, I couldn’t rationalise with it, I felt “stuck” when I came out of it I felt scared immediately was trying to work out why I’d even think of doing that & was very upset. A while after I keep getting thoughts like “say your goodbyes it won’t be long until you act out” I cried to my boyfriend and told him everything. How do I know if this was intent vs intrusive urge?
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