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- light lover
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Yes they do
Urge to do that bad thing, like my mind is like omg what if I just get up and hurt someone in my house? What if I can’t stop myself? And it’s like an intrusive thought but I get scared I’m going to get the URGE to do that bad thing & I get scared that if I get an urge I won’t be able to stop? I’m new to all of this so idk if that’s normal in ocd or if it means I’m inherently bad and it’s more than ocd
im feeling this too
I can’t post the link, but go on YouTube, write in the search bar ‘Chrissie Hodges urges, groinals and dreams’ it should be the first video that comes up. She has another vid called ‘ocd sexual and violent intrusive thoughts and urges’
All very helpful if you are experiencing ocd. Hopefully you can relate to those!
Also there’s a girl called ‘Ali Greymond’ on youtube who does daily updates on ocd often pure o, she saves life’s I think :)
Urge to do a compulsion or the urge to do something bad? If it’s the urge to do something bad, that’s normal. When we attach a lot of meaning to the thoughts our body’s react to it the same way.
The thought part is just in your head, urges are the bodily symptoms.
Yes it’s totally normal. The urges are like the complete bastard in ocd. They aren’t desire driven urges though, just anxiety driven,(even if they feel like they aren’t) btw. Don’t worry your normal. Watch Chrissie Hodges YouTube channel. She has a video about urges etc. I’ll post the link down below. Very helpful. Also I just want to mention I have this, sometimes when you get an urge you can become hyper aware of a particular part of your body making sure it doesn’t move so all those are normal. Ocd sucks. One thing that’s hit me recently though, is I realise that I feel with ocd a lot of us doubt our logic, like a part of us knows that we won’t do it but that ocd brain (amygdala, anxiety, irrational side of our brains) are overactive and the anxiety makes it feel so real. Intrusive thought ocd is a term used not just to describe the thoughts, but also you get intrusive feelings and urges in ocd etc, but they DO NOT mean anything. What is yours about btw? :) I get them about harm around my pets, and also I get sexual ones, like what if I do something sexually inappropriate. ??
Just for background, I had a nightmare like 3 months ago that I hurt someone and I don’t remember the dream much but it felt so vivid and real that when I woke up I checked my hands to make sure there was no blood on them. After that for about a week I kept thinking about it and what it meant and I was experiencing depersonalization. I was scared to go back to sleep because I was scared I was going to hurt everyone in my family while I was asleep. Finally when I couldn’t bare it and I told my mom because I thought I was going to turn into a serial killer lmfao. It sounds so dumb but I was so scared. I am so scared still. I get a lot of intrusive thoughts centered around that still and my biggest fears right now is like how do I KNOW this is just OCD and not me turning into a psychopath? I get scared that I’m going to get an urge to hurt my family or I’ll get the feeling that I’m going to run and grab something and hurt them. It’s terrifying, especially because I’ve never been an aggressive or angry person. I don’t like gruesome movies or anything like that & I just feel so BAD & I don’t understand what makes me different than a psychopath so I’m struggling a lot. I’m sorry for unloading I just kind of had to let it all out.
Something that really trips people up is understanding what intrusive thoughts are. What I see suggested a lot is that intrusive thoughts are just unwanted, unpleasant thoughts. This however isn't really enough criteria to separate the thoughts of someone who suffers from OCD and someone who doesn't as everyone gets unwanted thoughts. Intrusive, obsessive thoughts can be defined by how disruptive they are to your daily life. It's not that people without OCD live without taking precautions, but the amount of time someone with OCD spends compulsing over the thought is very disruptive to their everyday routine. For example: a person without OCD will acknowledge the danger the sun possesses and they will probably put on sunblock to protect themselves. They can do it well enough is a short amount of time to go in with their day and don't really think much about it afterwards. However, someone with OCD may spend hours obsessing over making sure every part of them which can be burned is protected. They may even check to make sure they're not burning as the day goes on. Compulsive behaviors (checking, testing, researching, asking for opinions/reassurance) will take up the majority of their time where someone without OCD will have more "free time" to go about their day. There is no relief for the OCD sufferer in knowing they did good enough. They need to make 100% sure they won't burn in this very specific example. I hope this makes sense for those of you who ask this question frequently as I believe it is very important to understand. Many people deny to themselves that they have this disorder because they can't define these thoughts properly and they get stuck on whether or not their thoughts constitute as being intrusive. Remember: just because you feel you are in distress doesn't mean there's actually any danger.
Can someone explain to me what urges are with ocd or what they feel like
Every highly anxious person has to cope with intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts are frightening thoughts about what might happen to you or someone you care about, or what you might do to yourself or another person. They seem to come from outside of your control, and their content feels alien and threatening. For some people, intrusive thoughts are part and parcel of panic or intense anxiety. In these types of intrusive thoughts, it feels like the thoughts come about as a result of the anxiety, and they function to add more fear to the anxiety you are already experiencing. The intrusive thoughts keep the anxiety going, and maintain the fear-producing spiral. So, for example, you might think, “what if I have a heart attack?” in the midst of an anxiety attack. You are already in the altered state of consciousness that I call anxious thinking, and your thoughts feel likely to happen. However, there is another class of intrusive thoughts that I call intrusive obsessive thoughts. These thoughts seem to come from out of nowhere, arrive with a distressing whoosh, and cause a great deal of anxiety. The content of intrusive obsessive thoughts almost always focus on sexual or violent images. Here are typical examples of intrusive obsessive thoughts: “Killing someone. Torturing a pet animal. Stabbing a child. Throwing someone (or yourself) out of a window. Jumping onto a train track as the train comes into the station. Molesting a child. Raping someone. Taking off your clothes in public.” This is not a complete list, but it gives you a good feeling of the content of these thoughts. People who experience intrusive obsessive thoughts are afraid that they might commit the acts they picture in their mind. They might imagine hurting someone or committing an act of sexual violation. Intrusive obsessive thoughts can be very explicit, and most people are embarrassed and frightened of them. There are a number of myths about intrusive obsessive thoughts. The greatest myth is that having thoughts of a sexual or violent nature mean that you want to do the things that come into your mind.This is not true. You do not want to do the things that enter your mind when you have intrusive obsessive thoughts. In fact, the opposite is true. People with intrusive obsessive thoughts are gentle and non-violent. FULL ARTICLE: https://drmartinseif.com/intrusive-thoughts/
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