When you have an intrusive thought/image and that same thought keeps coming into your mind even though you don’t want to ? it’s like it’s constantly there and I’m waiting on it or my mind is forcing it..OCD sucks and I know I’ve beat it so many times, it’s the same anxiety every time it returns

To be honest I know why I was having a bad day of intrusive thoughts yesterday and it’s because I had alcohol on Friday night. I probably only drink two days each month ( every second weekend ) but I feel I’m best not to. When my mind thinks of the thoughts from yesterday, I don’t have the same anxiety other than remembering how scared I felt. I’ve been through this so many times and I know it’s not me but it doesn’t stop it from being so scary each time

@Letsfighthis I wonder whether reminding yourself of the connection between alcohol and fears might help you get some distance from them. Like "yep, I drank last night and enjoyed myself. Bring on the worries! I know they're coming"

Me too. I used to have harm OCD and I’d always avoid watching certain things or get the fear doing normal activities. But I’ve overcome that and can now watch anything without anxiety or thinking I’ll turn out to be a bad person like the movies on tv. Now I’ve a different theme but I harm ocd does come back now and again but definitely not as bad as it was years ago

If I did, I wouldn't tell you. I'd want to help YOU, not give your OCD more ammo to use against you

@ocdillustrated Thank you your right dont give ocd any more ammo

@ocdillustrated Do you have any good coping techniques that you use mentally to fight against fears you did something bad ( harm ocd, pure o, bad memory, fears is what i battle with

@Russ1989 Have you tried exposure scripts?

@ocdillustrated What is that

@Russ1989 It's a way to do exposure for fears that we can't face in real life. Let me try to find you a link

@ocdillustrated If you Google "exposure script" the first few results that come up are good. I especially like the one from AnxietyCanada

@ocdillustrated Ok thank you i will google search now

@ocdillustrated Im 30 years old i suffer with harm ocd / bad memory / intrussive thoughts fears that i left bad violent harmful comments on the internet and that i will be jailed once they trace it back to me. Its very painful torture that ocd puts me through, i smoke alot of legal medical marijuana and digest cbd oil daily, i know marijuana abuse causes bad memory, but i smoke alot of marijuana and digest cbd oil to try to help me with the pain of having harm ocd false memory ocd pure o intrussive fears intrussive thoughts , last night i woke up and didnt remember turning off my youtube tv and i immediately was hit with the fear that i left a violent harmful youtube comment and that i will be in big trouble/jailed for my harmful threatening comment. And i went back to sleep and woke up with this fear all day.

@ocdillustrated I know i can check my youtube Comment history And see if i left any bad comments , i refuse to check because i feel like that would be feeding into the ocd and giving it more power. Whats your advice??

@Russ1989 Did you do anything today where you let the fear be in the background instead of at the forefront of your mind

@ocdillustrated I didnt use any mental coping techniques. I should keep using the "Stop Sign technique"

@Russ1989 What is that?

@ocdillustrated A free therapist years many years ago taught me in Florida to use the " Stop sign technique " when ocd begins just say " stop sign " and mentally vision a stop sign , it could help. It helped me many years ago using this stop sign mental coping mechanism, and i recovered from ocd and now it came back to haunt me 2months ago. Ive been using ali greymonds advice on saying this is ocd i wont look into the details i am moving forward mental strategy and also using stop sign technique sometimes

@Russ1989 Interesting, thanks for explaining

@Russ1989 I’m going to try this it sounds like a good idea ??