- Date posted
- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Yes, but my thoughts are so bizarre, sometimes I’m terrified I’ll eventually believe them.
- Date posted
- 6y ago
This may or may not be helpful to you, but I think the way I moved passed this obsession is to look at like: “Okay, well if I were to go crazy, I don’t have any control over whether that happens or not.” Like basically to stop worrying about the things that are out of my control is what helps me. Worrying doesn’t accomplish anything.
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Have you tried telling ocd that if you were actually going crazy, you wouldn’t be able to realize you were going crazy. I don’t know if this helps but I hope it does!
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I’ve been scared of believing my thoughts too! You have to know that they’re ocd, and that you know deep down that they are not real
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Do you mean with going crazy to lose control over yourself? It helps me to think that you never can not control all aspects of life and full control over emotions. Focusing on most important things (outside, not inside yourself - you can not control emotions as you can control your body) that you can control, are not too big. Even when you look at your project for 3 minutes, the emotions become weaker, the exposure works, and perhaps you do a little thing. Than you get a sense of control and it becomes better, the fear disappears. Good luck!
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I’m pretty sure I have had this same obsession before at some point in time of “going crazy”, but it passed. You need to accept the uncertainty is all I can tell you... we can’t ever control everything. Most of what happens to us in life is out of our control. I think the sooner you are able to accept this the sooner the obsession will pass. This probably isn’t the answer you are looking for either, but it’s the best I can do. Lily is right too. Rationally you know that these are just thoughts and thoughts can’t control you. Even so, just let the thoughts be and try to move past it. You don’t have control over everything that happens to you or your own thoughts even, but you do have control over how you react to them.
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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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- 15w ago
whats up guys what are some tips dealing with ocd and what to do when a thought makes u anxious ??
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 7w ago
I used to get caught in a loop with existential thoughts very frequently. Every question made my stomach drop: (TW: existential questions) … … ... "Why does anything exist at all? What will death be like? Is anything even real? Is there any meaning to this? Is the universe infinitely big, and if not, what's beyond it? Are there multiverses? Has the universe been around forever? Will the universe end for good, or will it keep going forever? What is forever like? What even IS reality?" It would get so overwhelming that I remember lying on the floor in a fetal position for hours because I felt like there was no escape. I spent most of my days reading articles and watching videos about theoretical astrophysics and philosophy in a desperate attempt to "figure it all out." Of course that only made me more anxious, raised more questions, and kept me trapped in the cycle. Things started to improve once I learned to turn TOWARD reality, rather than away from it, and ERP really helped me do that. I learned that these questions weren't the problem. I learned that I can actually handle the anxiety that arises when exposed to these ideas and concepts. I don't have to figure anything out to make the anxiety go away; it arises and passes away on its own. Ironically, bringing myself into the present moment and becoming more aware of reality helped me escape the cycle of existential dread. Because of that, this topic no longer takes over my life. If I'm triggered by something I see, hear, or think, I may still feel a little twang of anxiety, but then it just goes away. "Maybe, maybe not" has been the single most useful phrase of my life. Do you ever get trapped in a cycle of existential questions? Are you worried that the ERP approach would be too scary to handle? If so, I'm happy to give my advice.
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