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- 5y
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Do you feel like you’re a danger to yourself?
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Yes but that’s the whole thing with suicidal obsessions, you fear what you’ll do
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Hi, sorry you have this it sucks ... I know because I had self harm and harm ocd in general and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone...it’s very misunderstood because when u say I’m having thoughts that I’ll kill myself it can sound very alarming....firstly, do you feel like you do really want your life to end, are you planning to hurt yourself and are you feeling calm about the thoughts? Or that you will be at peace etc? Or are you extremely anxious and trying to avoid the thoughts, or specific objects? I’m not a therapist but I know the difference between actually being suicidal and self harm ocd... self harm ocd is when you seriously do not in any way shape or form want to hurt yourself, it’s your worst fear and you try desperately to get the thoughts out of your head and start to hide objects and avoid... if you aren’t feeling that and feel like you really want to die etc then I think you need to tell someone and see a therapist ASAP or go to the hospital ...if so stop reading this now..... however, if you are the 2nd one like me and are so afraid of the thoughts then rest be sured it’s just some more ocd! In that case read John hershfields harm ocd book (the e book is $6 on amazon) it will explain everything you are going through, next start erp therapy... you need to let the thoughts in... this is hard as hell, I suggest starting very slowly with it on your own as you find a therapist who can help you more.... I was afraid of the razors in the bathroom.. I would close the curtain and hide them.. stop this behaviour immediately and start to allow yourself to be near what you are afraid of and even think about harming yourself (obviously without actually holding the object etc) this is intensive erp therapy it’s the only thing that worked for me... your brain needs to learn how to break associations and habituate through exposure therapy! Also, intrusivethoughts.org I highly recommend !! You can get through this! Good luck!
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Wow.. thank you for your reply! I am so thankful I came across this post. My current theme is self harm and my biggest question has been “how do I know if it’s real or not!?” I noticed that I felt uncomfortable around knives and razors as well. The thoughts of “maybe you do want to just die” are accompanied by INTENSE fear and panic and makes me feel so scared. I have never been like this before and have always had a fear of dying. I have health anxiety to the max, so I assume this is why ocd attached to the harm theme for me. I really dislike it. It’s so scary for me to think “what if I am actually suicidal?”.. I feel better about knives now but I am still worried that I’m actually becoming depressed or developing a loss of love for life. I think this is ocd manifesting itself as well. I hope..
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I know we’re not meant to ask for reassurance but I’m currently not in therapy and I need help, it feels scarily real and I feel like I’m not anxious or worried over the thoughts. I had stabbing thoughts about someone I care about and I started deliberately imagining them to test myself to see if I hate it or not but instead it felt like I knew how it feels to stab someone and like the feeling of doing that physical action and I swear it is the worst thing I have ever experienced as well I had moments where it felt like It was about to happen or I keep getting this really sick ‘happy’ feeling that I want to do that and I don’t know what that is but it feels incredibly real almost like I was getting a happy feeling or wanted to do that thing and jsut wasn’t giving into it and now I’m thinking I’m actually evil and it feels like I get a pleasurable feeling over the thought of doing that and would want to do it?? Because I ‘like’ the feeling of doing it or it would ‘feel’ good I swear I really don’t know what to do it feels incredibly real I feel like I can’t even say that I’m worried or scared because I feel like I’m lying and actually want it and have evil desires I’m really concerned, I have never done anything bad in my life, I feel like what if through experimenting and imagining the thoughts to test myself I have suddenly discovered I like it because it feels extremely real that I would ‘enjoy’ or like Doing that evil thing and it’s really concerning, i don’t understand I was fine a few days ago and suddenly I’m experiencing this? Is it possible to suddenly become evil i don’t want to be evil, but what if i like it and my desire to not be evil isn’t as strong as this ‘happy feeling’ i wish I can be normal I don’t want any of this please but I swear I feel like there is something wrong with me, I think this is the worst I’ve ever felt, like it feels like I want it and would enjoy it and it’s making me feel really worried but at the same time I don’t even know if I’m worried please help I need advice
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- 23w
Starting in high school, I became very suicidal, and it became my “safety net” of all went wrong. I know it’s dark, but I was in a really bad head space and I saw suicide as my escape if I couldn’t fix my life. It got to the point where I was constantly thinking about suicide (literally every day, multiple times a day). Over the last year, I’ve gotten better and I think about it less. But then my OCD grabbed hold of it…. Now, if I do something wrong or embarrassing or if I struggle in a social situation (which is often 😅), my mind says “kys”, “jump off a bridge”, and so on. It’s like an automatic response with my OCD and it makes me so uncomfortable… I’m trying to get better. I don’t want to die. Sure, I still get pretty low, but I always push the thoughts away now instead of welcoming them like I used to. But with the intrusive thoughts being nearly constant now, it’s kind of scary. I dont know what to do to make them stop since the intrusive thoughts are just so automatic at the slightest feeling of discomfort. I have a therapist, but I dont know how to bring this up with her. I’m too nervous to even admit to suicidal thoughts, not to mention the intrusive thoughts they’ve turned into. It kind of feels like it’ll never go away.
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- 22w
Hello, I’m in undergrad and recently was diagnosed with OCD. Its a very new diagnosis and it’s both been stressful and relieving to receive it. Looking back at my past I’ve been able to explain a lot of behavioral issues that I thought were simply attributed to me being “crazy”. It’s comforting to know it’s something that others struggle with and that there are set coping mechanisms and treatments for it. There are a number of thing of which I obsessively think about, and it’s been getting really hard to deal with all of them. The most troubling are my thoughts toward suicide. I can’t stop thinking about it. There’s not really any intent, it’s just like my brain has tuned into a frequency that plays in the background at all times. Usually though this leads to more dangerous behaviors, and so I always try to do any preventative work to keep myself safe. As for the asking for advice portion of this post, what do you all do to combat unending loops of thought? Because I’m so new to my diagnosis, my therapist and I haven’t found good strategies for me yet, outside of just labeling those thoughts as OCD in an attempt to delegitimize them.
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