Mel
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- 5y
pluralinespluralines
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- 5y
by not doing anything, do you mean compulsions ?
catmomcatmom
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- 5y
Yes, it’s Pure O OCD, so instead of physical compulsions, you’re likely engaging in mental ones. This could be avoiding things that might trigger you, mentally ruminating to try & find meaning or certainty in the thoughts about whether or not you would cause harm, neutralizing the thoughts by forcing good ones in their place, & literally anything else that mentally alleviates the anxiety/distress.
YesYouYesYou
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- 5y
You have to remember EVERYONE gets intrusive thoughts. People with OCD get them alot more frequently. I believe OCD is on a spectrum from mild to severe so your anxiety level and frequency of thoughts would land somewhere between there. People with pure O usually don't have physical compulsions only mental ones.
MelMel
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- 5y
While I do have compulsions for basically all the other aspects of OCD.. I have yet to compulse with harm ocd, however I still have intrusive thoughts on it.. I always have enough to talk myself out of it... (basically my anxiety telling me to stop it)
YesYouYesYou
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- 5y
A compulsion is to alleviate anxiety so if you talk yourself out of it or calm yourself down there really isn't a need to have a compulsion. For my blasphemy OCD I would be talking to god and my intrusive thought would say repeatedly "F#$k God" and I would have to beg and plead with God saying that's not me which was a compulsion. For my hocd Its very hard to use a public restroom without high amounts of anxiety so I avoid them which is another compulsion.
MelMel
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- 5y
Yea.. it’s like an internal fight between my ocd wanting me to compulse.. my social anxiety telling me not to cuz it’s “embarrassing” and then I do.. my anxiety gets mad.. but anxiety makes me compulse to alleviate.. but it makes it worse
YesYouYesYou
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- 5y
@Meli It's a vicious cycle for sure I'm rooting for your happiness.
MelMel
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- 5y
@Kc88 Thank you! ?
YesYouYesYou
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- 5y
Some would say having to talk yourself out of it is a compulsion
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Anonymous
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- 25w
Questions
There are times my harm ocd has me convinced that my feelings of self harm or suicide and harm are real and that any moment I could commit the act on myself or my family. Is there anyone who can chime in on this. I feel like all the time I want to leave run away or avoid my family because of these thoughts. Like I shouldn’t be around my children and I don’t trust myself.
Aphid123
- Date posted
- 21w
Is this even OCD?
Hey so a couple months ago (7-8) I remember being upset at my family member. Like she was talking too much while I was annoyed and remember wanting her to be quiet. I got an intrusive thought like a really bad image of doing something really bad to her, and my hand twitched to the side a little? Like it felt like I was about to?! And I remembered thinking "if I do this, I'll get in trouble". I got up and left to the bathroom and felt horrified! I was thinking "did I want to act out? Did the only reason I didn't act out was because of getting in trouble? If there was no consequences, would have I done it?! Does this mean this whole time I've been using OCD as an excuse?" I remember I couldn't sleep for 3 nights because of how bad the anxiety was, I was crying and I felt very guilty like I should turn myself in to a mental hospital. I couldn't eat for many days or be near her because of that thought and twitch I had! I'm worried it was an impulse or I actually wanted to hurt her. And even to this day I still ruminanate about this. Like last night I couldn't sleep well I kept waking up every two hours and asking myself "am I capable?" I couldn't eat last night. Sometimes I move on from it like I forget that happened but when I remember, I feel distressed about it! I don't want to be an evil person or do bad actions towards anyone! I'm even scared to be angry because of this because I'm scared I have more "chance" of acting out due to anger. Like was it an impulse and I held back? Is this even OCD? Please help, I'm really scared!
Catlove9
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- 21w
What do you say to OCD when you have harm urges?
I am struggling right now with intrusive harm urges. They feel real and it feels like I am going to act any second. It feels like I have to hold myself back, which is a scary thoughts. I am trying so hard not to compulse, but does anyone have tips on what they do in these situations?
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