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- 4y ago
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- 4y ago
This is a great opportunity to be mindful of how OCD works. You find a tool that mitigates your negative feelings or your anxiety, and then notice how OCD moves the goalposts. Now you’re anxious that you’re not anxious enough! Call its bluff. Do what you’re doing now. “Oh yeah, great. Definitely more likely to be a murderer because I’m joking about it.” As OCD morphs, use the same tools. Let the fear stay and work on letting it be. You’re doing great!
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- 4y ago
OCD latches onto our worst fears. Makes you feel like a horrible person over something you’d never do. Continue being sarcastic with it because you’re not giving it that same power and OCD doesn’t know what to do. It’s used to being in control but you’re challenging it which is good! You’re not a bad person, think of it as just being sick of the irrationality that comes with ocd. You’re standing up to it and that is so strong of you! You’re not a bad person, you just have to accept whatever thoughts come in and do not interact with them anymore. They’re there but they’re not powerful.
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- 4y ago
This has been happening to me today that my therapist made me chabge my perspective. Im trying not to listen to that voice.
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- 4y ago
Honestly I have wanted to make jokes about my intrusive thoughts with people but Iam scared they will be like wtf ..
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- 20w ago
Has anyone ever just felt weird? It’s hard to explain but I just feel weird lately. I usually suffer with harm OCD and I feel like lately I’m not reacting to things I normally would. There’s certain things that will trigger me a little but then other times (like over the last few days) it’s like I feel nothing. I’ll get thoughts and because I don’t feel the physical sensation in my chest or get very emotional like I normally would it’s weird to me. Does this mean I’m liking the thoughts now? Or like I’m comfortable with those actions happening? I’m so confused. Has anyone ever gone through this?
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- 19w ago
This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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- 18w ago
Like I'm not even scared I feel numb and ever since that night I've completely went down hill Idk what to do the feeling i felt this time genuily felt like i liked it and i didnt even have anxiety at that moment and now I'm panicking I really hope this is still OCD like I'm sorry if I'm still asking for reassurance but im really worried like it felt good in that moment I don't understand what's going on like I hope it was a false feeling and not something real.....like this has happened before but Idk 😭😭😭😭 I really don't know what to I don't want to turn into a p word I don't this I've been sleeping all day I still do compulsions a little to get rid of the thoughts but I've been getting sexual thoughts too and I don't want them but I feel like I do I don't understand I though I was getting better but I guess every time I get better everything gets worse..
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