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And by always testing I mean almost every second of the day is just flipping between two different scenarios
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yeah such a compulsion
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Yesssss those are mental compulsions and so hard to pinpoint so that’s great that you have! I do the scenario thing all the time and I don’t stop until I find the correct answer ...or feeling. My suggestion is to NOT do the scenario thing, just keep moving through the day (I know how hard this is but it does help after awhile because you are telling your brain that the thoughts don’t need attention)
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For instance anytime I’m with my girlfriend I’m always asking myself either “what if she was a guy” and I’ll start getting anxious so I’ll make sure she doesn’t look like a guy or when I’m scrolling through Instagram I’m constantly checking to see what arouses me and if I get “aroused” (it’s usually just a movement not actual arousal) by the wrong thing I start to panic then I mistake that panic for actual arousal then I panic more and start repeating the same lines in my head
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Thank you a ton
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That is a compulsion that tons of people with hocd do
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Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
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OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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So hard to not engage the thoughts because even though it's from the "past" (i don't even know if im remembering things correctly and it kills me) and i can't change it, I just NEED to prove it to myself that it didn't happen this way. If you'd asked me questions maybe a few months ago, I would have been able to lucidly explain things. Now I just feel like I'm in a constant swarm of thoughts, not knowing if anything is real. If my brain is to be trusted. Wish I could just get hypnosis to forget
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