Christian
- Date posted
- 7y
ChristianChristian
- Date posted
- 7y
Yes, but my thoughts are so bizarre, sometimes I’m terrified I’ll eventually believe them.
PineapplePineapple
- Date posted
- 7y
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.
LilyLily
- Date posted
- 7y
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!
LilyLily
- Date posted
- 7y
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
marksmarksmarksmarksmarksmarks
- Date posted
- 7y
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!
PineapplePineapple
- Date posted
- 7y
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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