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- 6y
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- 6y
Before I was diagnosed with ocd one day I had a thought to burn the apt down with my brothers in :( this made me so sad I thought I was a monster and I was going crazy but deep inside of me I know I will never do those horrible things so I knew I have some mental disorder
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- 6y
This is most disturbing part of ocd for me, and the hardest part for me to share with people but yes all the time. I have a constant fear of trying to harm myself, and sometimes the images in my head of cutting myself or burning or whatever are so strong I swear it’s like I feel it happening. It’s definitely a form of ocd, and it’s something you can work on with imaginary exposure therapy (bot actual exposures though for obvious reasons)
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- 6y
Yes those are ocd harm thoughts I had it too
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- 6y
Yes, I have these thoughts all the time, but I’ve never acted on them. They can be quite scary! They just pop up randomly, uninvited. But I feel like you don’t choose your thoughts, you just choose your reactions to them. The book Brain Lock has really helped me. It uses the method of refocusing after each intrusive thought. If I think one of these harm thoughts, I try to label it as an obsession and then refocus on whatever I’m doing. It has gotten easier with time.
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- 6y
I think most people occasionally have these types of thoughts. But with ocd it’s more likely we’ll latch on to the thoughts.
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- 24w
Just a little side note: I know this post has been made MANY times by me. However, I had a therapist respond to my post today saying that I need to reach out to my therapist on this because the context was not clear. This made me more stressed and ruminate more. It's not the therapist fault; but not I wonder if I'm really the monster. I'm a Christian mom who feels like I've ruined my life. My daughter was laying across me and every time I breathed a certain way I was getting a groinal sensation. I kept breathing like that anyways (ugh idk why), and then my mind told me I had hurt her that I might as well do something else because what's more. So idk why or what overcame me other than the thought of doing it and causing another feeling (I literally had to question what to do during this and the only thing I could come up with was to move my elbow) but it came across my mind to elbow her, and I elbowed her crotch or side area. Which caused another groinal sensation. Then I began FREAKING smooth out. Then I've been stressing since. I feel like as a mom I don't deserve to be hers anymore. Idk what overcame me. PLEASE tell me if I am a monster. I was doing SO well! Is this really OCD?
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- 16w
TW! please someone comment When I was 12 or 13 I used to babysit a little girl, she had a habit of keeping her hand in her diaper and was always touching herself, there was one point I was changing her diaper and noticed she was really red. I had separated her private parts and checked the inner area for signs of infection. She was okay, just some really really bad diaper rash. I know this is what happened yet my brain is trying to convince me that I hurt her, and that I wanted to do it, I know I would never hurt a child but with all the anxiety I feel when I think about it I'm starting to wonder if I did do it because I wanted to hurt her, I don't wanna be a p, I don't wanna hurt innocent children, I used to never have these thoughts but now I do and I'm so scared to tell my therapist as she hasn't diagnosed me with ocd yet. I don't want her to think I'm a p nor do I wanna hurt kids, but my brain keeps telling me that I do and that I'm just lying to myself and everyone around me, ik I would never do something that could harm a child but I keep getting these thoughts and their inappropriate and I just want them to stop, does anyone have any tips on how to help myself? I keep turning to my boyfriend for reassurance but ik that that's just a quick fix and that ill be spiraling about it again.Please help
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- 10w
About 2 months ago, I sliced my arm so deep in an attempt to make this all go away.. as there was blood spurting like everywhere my life flashed before my eyes and I could hear my parents laughing in the room beside me. I started screaming for help as my eyes flooded with tears. How could their little girl do that to herself?? I was able to get to the ER and have my arm stitched up.. making my attempt a fail. But I’m so scared. I don’t want to do something like that again. I’ve never seen my parents cry except for then. The fear in their eyes haunts me up to this day. But that’s the only thing that relieves my pain. Can someone help or relate to this ???
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