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My intrusive thoughts aren’t consistently in any specific voice or structure. They just show up as if out of nowhere. It sounds like you’ve identified that this particular thought is not something your conscious mind would have come up. You immediately shut it down when the idea crept in. This is something you clearly don’t want or intend to act on. You did not ask to meet or be set up with this person. There was no intent to be unfaithful let alone an action. Intrusive thoughts are sneaky but you recognized this one. What part of this feels like cheating to you?
syliatsyliat
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@Jae18 I totally understand what you mean by that. I was sacred about being in denial on having ocd because i wasn’t always sure how intrusive thoughts were supposed to appear. Don’t want to reassure you, but mine were also statement, affirmative lines, repeated words….
kayak04kayak04
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I’ve got the same problem. I have to remind myself the fear I feel is great enough for me to know what I do not want. I don’t think the thoughts have a specific format. I hope not, cause I’m in the same boat as you. Think of the world of mental health like an ocean. Us humans only know about a small percentage of all the cool stuff in the Earths oceans. We don’t know everything there is about mental health. If you’re having a thought though, chances are someone else is thinking it, has thought it, etc. Just like the very unlikely chances for there being only one blue fish to exist. You are not alone. There’s always variety in our oceans just as there is in our brains.
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