Please answer this. Do you sometimes just get a "bad feeling". Like not intrusive thoughts but a bad feeling and then intrusive thoughts related to your theme but you cant really make sense of them if you try to explain them out loud. I have moral scrupulosity, so I just randomly get a stomach sinking feeling, and then I will get intrusive thoughts but I cant really explain the event or reason why I feel how I feel, it doesn't make much logical sense. I hope I'm not the only one that feels like this.

NicaF

Date posted: 5y

Yes, I have that often.. it's just like a bad feeling and then the anxiety follows.. exactly like u explained

MJocd

Date posted: 5y

I'm thankful you commented, it's a very strange feeling. It comes out of nowhere, and it does go away but once its here I start exploring the feeling and then all the old intrusive most upsetting/disturbing thoughts start coming to mind. But if someone was to come up to me and ask "what's wrong?" I wont really be able to explain it, like sure I could tell them the intrusive thought that I'm experiencing but the sad feeling came first and I wouldn't be able to exactly pin point why I'm feeling like that. It's a really weird sinking feeling. :(

Sunrise22

Date posted: 5y

I feel like this is common for me. I will feel a pang of anxiety and then almost manufacture a thought to go with it

catlady817

Date posted: 5y

This is one of those times where my mind is blown that random people on the internet experience the things I thought I was totally alone in ?

Sunrise22

Date posted: 5y

@catlady817 ??????☀️

MJocd

Date posted: 5y

@Sunrise22 "Manufacture" is the perfect term to describe it lmao that's EXACTLY what happens to me. It's like I'll feel that feeling and then "oh yes, remember last year when...WHAT IF?" -_-

Sunrise22

Date posted: 5y

I think it’s because the brain is always searching for answers to things

Sunrise22

Date posted: 5y

And sometimes the answer is...I have a biochemical imbalance in my brain ?

lizzy123

Date posted: 5y

100% agree with everything said here!! I have often told my therapist i dont know what comes first the feelings or the thoughts sometimes. I think its still ocd useing our feelings against us to start ruminating because it knows we assiciate those feeling with those thoughts. So i think we just sit with the intrusive feelings and not attribute any reason to them.

ocdillustrated

Date posted: 5y

Yeah. Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can link in any order

MJocd

Date posted: 5y

But do you know what I mean? Like it doesn't make sense outside of my head but inside my head it keeps giving me a bad/anxious/sad feeling. But I dont fully understand my intrusive thought.

catlady817

Date posted: 5y

Yup. I get that exact same sinking feeling multiple times a day for no obvious reason

catlady817

Date posted: 5y

I don’t fully understand this feeling either but I’m really glad you posted about it, because I hadn’t really seen other people talk about it

MJocd

Date posted: 5y

catlady817

Date posted: 5y

@MJocd When I get it it only goes away if I can fully focus on something completely different which can be hard. I hate it because I know rationally that nothing is actually wrong when I get that feeling but I feel like I have to pick SOMETHING to explain it and it’s usually an OCD theme

AndrewSmith

Date posted: 5y

Holy shit. I couldnt have said it better myself. Ive been looking for tge right words to explain this. Thank you for sharing! :)

spencebuko

Date posted: 5y

Yeah I think it’s OCD mixed with depression and a mood disorder cuz that’s what I have. And I feel the exact same way multiple times a day.

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