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- 45w
LittleLight LittleLight
- Date posted
- 45w
It sounds like you’re dealing with some really common cognitive distortions that OCD loves to use. One is magical thinking — like the fear that just thinking something bad could somehow make it happen. Another one is thought-action fusion, where the brain treats having a thought as if it’s just as bad as doing the thing. It’s not. A thought is just a thought — it doesn’t mean anything about who you are. The part where you mentioned worrying that you might start hoping bad things on people OCD can totally sound like your own voice and make it feel like the thought was yours or that you secretly meant it. That’s just OCD doing what it does: turning something you hate into a source of doubt and guilt. This is sometimes called ego-dystonic anxiety—when thoughts feel so out of line with your values that the anxiety becomes about why you even had them in the first place. OCD will latch onto that fear and turn it into a new obsession: “What if I start hoping for bad things?” even though you’ve shown over and over that you don’t want that at all. Hope this helps! 💕
AnonymousalwaysAnonymousalways
- Date posted
- 45w
You have helped a lot and thank you so much for responding to my post , everything youve said is exactly how I feel , as all the intrusive thoughts I have are totally opposite to what I want, they arent what I think and feel at all, I have suffered with this for decades , but this one has made me constantly worry about the thoughts as they are always about the ones I love more than anything in the world. but thank you so much x
LittleLight LittleLight
- Date posted
- 45w
@Anonymousalways It helps to have words/definitions to the disturbing stuff OCD comes up with, that way when something comes up you can go “oh that’s such and such definition” 😌
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