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I’m battling with this at the moment constantly questioning my thoughts. An intrusive thought happens and I’ll automatically think NO and shake my head but then question if I actually mean no ??♀️ sometimes I get a thought and don’t get as much anxiety as I usually do and then think well, if I’m not get anxiety it must be a bad thing. It’s a viscous circle. I get mental compulsions too because of it. I guess deep down we all know it’s OCD but the joy of having it is that it will always make us feel we are what we fear and part of our mind is stuck always stuck there.
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Accept the voice that tells you that you want it, the more you suppress it the more the thoughts will come to you anyway, by accepting it you eventually learn to not approach the thoughts with fear and your mind will slowly stop obsessing
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@abcd33 So yes. It will be apart of the process. You will feel like it's becoming your identity; it's apart of the healing process. Just know that I'm doing this and my intrusive thoughts are not creating as much distress for me. I'm wishing you the best during your recovery! :)
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You’re on the right track with angel and devil talking. Ultimately it’s not to listen to either but to merely accept that they’re there. They show up, start blabbing, and you can simply say oh hi and acknowledge their existance and move on. It really just comes down to you. Trust YOUR voice. I started treatment recently and find myself talking out loud when an intrusive thought comes into my head. I’m like “it’s just a thought. It’s here and that’s okay.”
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∆∆∆love this response ⭐
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- 19w
Why does my pocd always try to tell my I agree with bad stuff or tell me bad stuff is normal etc… I don’t agree with it but it feels like my body and brain does but I always am like wtf after I get the thought but sometimes if I try to let it pass that feels like I’m agreeing with it. Like omg bro I hate this
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- 17w
Okay so I have been struggling with pocd. And I have been getting better but now my ocd is telling me that I'm proving it right by slowly started to get better. For example, after so long of trying my hardest to avoid anything protaining to children I realized that I have to in order to get better. So I've been letting myself go out more and yk see children. The intrusive thoughts are still there though. Which is feeding into it trying to convince me that it's real. It feels like it does that anytime I'm a step closer to getting better. Does anyone have any advice on how to help it? I struggle with mental checks and responding. I know that I should let it pass but it's so difficult. The intrusive thoughts have been getting worse too. They pop up over the smallest things. It's all just jumping to insane conclusions and I'm so sick of it. I just want to be better.
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I’ve been gone for about a month, mostly because I kept seeing messages on here that felt super anxiety-inducing and not understanding of OCD at all. Honestly, it got to the point where I started getting nervous to even open the app. Lately, I’ve been stuck in this OCD loop that I think might be moral scrupulosity or something like that. I’ve been dealing with this thing where I feel like I have to “challenge” stuff mentally or verbally, like if I don’t say something out loud, it feels super uncomfortable. And the thoughts are about heavy stuff, like assault or deportation or just really morally loaded topics. My brain starts picking everything apart. It’s like I have to look at things fairly, and then I get trapped in all these little technicalities. For example, if someone gets assaulted, my brain fixates on stuff like “what was she wearing”even though I know how harmful that line of thinking is. That is exactly the kind of thing my mind zooms in on. It happens with a bunch of topics too, not just that. I feel like I have to give the benefit of the doubt to the aggressor or see “both sides,” and then I end up doubting the victim. And the worst part is, it feels like I truly believe these devil’s advocate thoughts. It feels so real. It’s like I become convinced that the victim might be lying or that there’s some justification for the harm, and I don’t like it. This even happens with my boyfriend and especially his family. I’ll catch my brain flipping narratives or making me question people I trust. this has been a “habit”for as long as I can remember but now it’s happening so much more. I cannot stop doubting. It feels like I’m siding with people who I should have no doubts to be against. I don’t know what to do or what kind of ERP would work for this. I don’t know how to change this. It’s been apart of me so long, it simply feels like me.
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