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- 4d
Anyone with similar theme and what helped you?
I have been suffering from intense intrusive thoughts for quite some time now. The usual theme is me being socially unacceptable somehow. People will exclude me, hate me, be annoyed of me, disgusted by me, etc... My mind shows me very vivid pictures and stories where on each step and scene I am doing the most cringe, awfully disgusting, hateful, horrible, creepy thing that will guarantee people will hate and avoid me either consciously or subconsciously at best. This can be a one time sudden blow -- a thought that appears as a "woosh" out of no where and is absolutely terrifying. Or it can be a long ride where I do unacceptable things subtle-ly and it all compounds and climaxes. This causes me immense stress, panic and fear -- and that is an understatement: I am dying. I also have thought contamination -- Everything I /do/say/think/ is contaminated by a thought that somehow translates my actions in the present into some social scenario where it is one of the worst things to do at the moment. This all makes me avoid basically any social setting that is not purely professional -- which is most of the color in life. Though I understand how any theme of OCD can be really difficult to deal with, I sometimes believe that mine is harder to deal with because it involves future and social scenarios: future is uncertain and as a human I will have to socialize. I know that is probably not true and at the end of the day it is OCD and we are all feeling that dying feeling by either one theme or another. I wanted to know what "flavor" of OCD is this? Are you experiencing the same theme? What helped you deal with it?: If you have some niche knowledge or insight please share... Thank you for your time. That was it. Have a wonderful day though I can't have mine :(...