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This seems like it’s the crux of ocd. That having bad thoughts means something bad about you. It’s the anxiety response that amplifys this and makes us ponder, often for hours on end about the meaning of these thoughts. This way of thinking doesn’t benefit us, rather strengthens the ocd! So try, and you’ve probably heard this a million times, but try to let the thoughts into you’re brain without fighting them
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Yes :( while this is such an awful feeling, it helps so much to hear others are experiencing this. Ocd is so hard to understand if you don’t experience it. It has been really hard for my boyfriend to understand and it makes me feel crazy. He struggles with clinical depression and I feel like I’ve tried to be open to anything he tells me even thought I don’t fully relate but when it comes to me explaining my intrusive thoughts he just stares at me and seems so confused and weirded out :////
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This happens to me. But then I question if I did it. The imagery is so real in my head. what is this type of OCD called?
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Yup
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- 25w
Does anyone else read other peoples post and think it’s for them or about them and their situation and start to think that’s what they are going through themselves ? Or like I’m blaming ocd but it’s my brain actually telling that’s how I actually feel?
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Does anyone ever feel like you know you have OCD, but at the same time you think it might actually be you connecting to a higher consciousness or vibration that is trying to control your decisions so that the outcome does not turn out bad kind of like the butterfly effect. It drives me crazy because I know I’m conscious that it’s OCD but at the same time I overthink and feel like it might be a higher power trying to warn me that I’m not doing something right, like example; if I flip the trash can lid a couple more times it’s going to pervert something bad from happening and that why I’m sensing I’m not doing it right, because if I spent a little more time there and if I would have left earlier the outcome would’ve been different. Or say I just fight through it and choose to ignore it, but then I’ll carry that negativity/worry of not feeling like I did it right and will project it out into existence because the thought won’t leave my head and in a way your seeking it out into existence since you keep thinking about it, kind of like an affirmation?
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I know the solution is to always say “yeah that could be true, but I am choosing to live my life anyway.” However, I feel like my biggest issue is my brain always assuming that it is immediately true when I do that. Like if I say “maybe I’m attracted to teenagers, it’s possible,” then my brain INSTANTLY starts rationalizing that thought and defending it and being like “oh okay so you think this now and it makes sense because xyz, and now that’s who you are and your real desire is now and always will be teenagers.” I feel really alone in this area of feeling like my brain “accepting the thoughts” means my brain immediately accepts them as true. I obviously don’t want to think they’re true but I feel so stuck now.
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