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by not doing anything, do you mean compulsions ?
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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@Meli It's a vicious cycle for sure I'm rooting for your happiness.
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@Kc88 Thank you! ?
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Some would say having to talk yourself out of it is a compulsion
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I have all kinds of thoughts that aren’t me it feels like someone is talking to me telling me evil things about people or to do evil things 😞😞😞😞 I can’t do this anymore
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I have intrusive thoughts (no anxiety ) but not too much thoughts but very disturbing like it's stay almost 3 hours straight just down and up (not done compulsion ) feel very disturbed and i don't know what to do. Just feel irritating thoughts (harm thoughts and going to crazy ) If i have any other issue not ocd?
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Can harm ocd give you thoughts like when you’re in front of a trigger “why don’t you do it” and sometimes I either freeze don’t know what to do with myself and then an urge to throw the item away. Is this something else? And sometimes I get thoughts like “what if I’m lying to myself” and “do you think you’re lying to yourself”
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