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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
Omg I get intrusive thoughts like that too. I’m 13 rn but I’m too scared to tell my parents because my ocd didn’t get a lot worse until December. My parents won’t understand it. Did you do therapy?
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- 6y ago
How did you overcome that? Would you please like to guide or explain?
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- 6y ago
I am not suffering from OCD but the person I loved the most is suffering since last 13 years and he told me now and I just want to know how I can help him to overcome this
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- 6y ago
@shanza Ali Yes, with much pleasure ?. As long a journey from age 12 to 21 with this disorder, something that helped me (which what my therapist told me) was to think of intrusive thoughts as “tics”. The point of this is that, tics are just things that are there but they have no meaning. So every time a “weird” thought came in (for example, let’s say an insane intrusive thought of the devil slapping you in the butt; I know it’s weird but that’s the crazy reality of our intrusive thoughts), you have to know that it’s meaningless. It doesn’t mean anything even though it’s there....like a tic. So I applied that concept and I felt much better. Also, KNOWING that you didn’t put the thought of “God is stupid” in your own head on purpose really helps you believe that intrusive thoughts is not your own doing but rather the doing of something wrong with your brain. Not your soul, but rather the fault of your brain. It takes practice day by day to distract yourself into normal thinking.
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- 6y ago
@cgislander Hey there! I did get therapy BUT it wasn’t until I was 18, unfortunately. And wow, you are very young! Yes, very likely, parents will not understand it at first. But I personally believe it’s very important to open up to them at some point! My parents were able to understand my disorder more after a long journey. They were sad and in denial about it because they didn’t want their children to have such an illness (as I don’t either!) But they were supportive! What meant a lot was that they understand mental disorders are just as real as cancer. People like you need all the support you can get! I went to my first therapy session with my mom?
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