Does your head ever get numb from all the intrusive and helpful thoughts going through your head, and you start buzzing, and feeling like you just can’t talk?

Well, I find mine hurts the most near the end of an intense episode/afterwards. I think it’s your brain saying that it’s working much harder than it needs to be over something that it doesn’t need to be worried about! You’re straining your head when you worry, so when it’s extra intense and obsessive (so at a constant for the most part), it doesn’t get much of a break. Your body is practically punishing you because you won’t let it relax. I find it reassuring and use it as a reason to calm myself :-)

Thank you guys, I love reading things like this and knowing I’m not alone ❤️ I have symmetry and ordering sort of OCD and we’ve just redecorated our study in my house and changed every piece of furniture and I’ve just taken over and wanted to be the one to organise it all to make me feel better and I’ve stressed so much by the end internally that I’m now sat in a dark room wanted to cry/cradle my head! But I couldn’t have just let go and let someone else do it! You guys are very reassuring x

I would experience horrible, horrible headaches when I first started having intrusive thoughts a few months ago, so I definitely know what you mean.

@Sarah26 I’m so glad I found this app to be honest! It’s great knowing I am not alone and “crazy”.

Absolutely! It feels like a migraine. I just look at it as my body telling me to stop worrying so much and calm down.

Is it your bodies way of just giving you a break in the midst of it? Cuz right now its much quieter after that episode!