Trigger warning..? I am curious to see if anyone else has ever done or experienced this or something similar? When I was about 10, 11 years old I was cooking with my mom. I remember scaring the crap out of her because there was a hot pan on the stove and I couldn’t stop trying to touch it, so i did and my mom freaked out at me.. Another incident I’ve never told anyone was around the same age I was ironing a shirt and I had all these terrible thoughts to put the hot iron on my stomach and I almost did I remember shaking and crying i was so scared i was afraid of myself. Is this a form of OCD? I haven’t done anything like this in years but it still pops up in my head sometimes and it makes me so sad that my childhood was so painful i just thought i was crazy and held it in for so long.

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

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)

Yes those are ocd harm thoughts I had it too

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.

I think most people occasionally have these types of thoughts. But with ocd it’s more likely we’ll latch on to the thoughts.