Daria91
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- 6y
Ocd Won’t beat MeOcd Won’t be...
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The real thoughts are your own thoughts. OCD thoughts are thoughts about actions you would never act on. If you have a thought that causes you enough stress that you have to do a compulsion to try and forget it: that’s the OCD thoughts.
Daria91Daria91
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- 6y
Thank you It’s just felt so real, like I’m lying to myself if I think that it is OCD...
Ocd Won’t beat MeOcd Won’t be...
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- 6y
Believe me, in that moment that fear and that thought feel so real and it’s so scary. People with OCD are not crazy. We realize that the thoughts we are having are irrational but for some reason we can’t handle the anxiety that accompanies that thought. Tell yourself: I am not my ocd thoughts. These are thoughts I cannot control. It might help you to write down your worst thoughts and triggers, so you can see them written out. This may help you to realize how irrational the thoughts are and that they are not real.
Daria91Daria91
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- 6y
There is a problem that these thoughts do not seem as irrational ones..
mdm5995mdm5995
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- 6y
there is no difference between an “ocd” thought and a “regular” thought. If you had an ocd thought without any emotion or reaction, you wouldn’t have OCD. OCD is the reaction to the thoughts. Thoughts aren’t the problem, your response is. Don’t bother trying to categorize your thoughts, just live your values.
Ocd Won’t beat MeOcd Won’t be...
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Dariamerchant: if a certain thought or certain thoughts cause you extreme anxiety, those are the thoughts that your OCD (and fight or flight response) tricks you into believing are going to cause danger. It might help you to read up on your fight or flight response and what part of the brain controls this. It might help you understand that your extreme feelings in the moment are your body’s natural reaction to fear and anxiety. We with OCD tend to overdramatize our thoughts and we end up believing the thoughts are true because we thought about them for a brief second. Like we can control the world with our thoughts. We cannot!!
Daria91Daria91
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