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- Mol
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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- anxiouspotatoanxiouspotato
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yes. I have those all the time. Like “Oh you want to date this person.” “You want to kill this person.” “You want to have sex with this person.” If it causes you distress, I would definitely say it’s an intrusive thought.
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- MolMol
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Thank you! Its what stresses me out the most now
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- anxiouspotatoanxiouspotato
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I know, I have those thoughts of like “You are going to do this some day” as well. Just focus on breathing and remember it’s OCD!
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- anxiouspotatoanxiouspotato
- Date posted
- 5y ago
My best advice would to be to try to just sit with the thoughts. When I have them I start to breathe heavier and like sigh with frustration. If you can just sit with them and allow yourself to breath slowly instead of trying to get rid of them and being compulsive
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- MelyMely
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Usually mine come on as what ifs. Like "what if you want to do that?" "What if some day you're gonna do this to some one?" "What if I want to do this bad thing so much that it is no use and one day it will happen anyway and you are doomed because you will eventually do it even if you think everything is fine right now". It sucks. But yeah I would say that's definitely intrusive thoughts. Usually if you get scared that you even had it, even if it's a "good" thought, but it bothered you and it keeps coming back the more you try to get rid of it, that usually means it's just an intrusive thought. Or at least from my experience anyway!
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- anxiouspotatoanxiouspotato
- Date posted
- 5y ago
But yeah, I will have to catch myself getting frustrated with these thoughts and just tell myself to relax , breathe and accept the thoughts. One thing that has somewhat worked for me is when the thoughts come up, is to just accept them. Even as crazy as they might sound, be like “Yep. You’re right brain. I’m a cheater.” “Yep, I’m a rapist and a pedophile don’t care.” It can somewhat help for acceptance but I definitely need more ERP.
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- MolMol
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yeah I definitely start to breath heavier and tense up when I get those kind of thoughts, I’m trying my best to let them be but its just so hard to sit with something that feels so horrible and opposite to who you are, thank you for the advice
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- ELO
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Does anyone else’s intrusive thoughts at times make them ‘feel’ things? Like if you have an intrusive thought about your boyfriend you then begin to feel you don’t want to be with him. And afterward you feel extreme guilt and shame because you do love him so much. I used to call them “fake feelings”
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- notfortalk
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I need to know if someone else experience this because I think this may be the root of some of my ocd themes. So basically even when I don't really have a theme going on I get intrusive thoughts of different topics. For example if I'm reading an article about a person with ADHD my mind tells that maybe I have adhd and because if I had I'd be different, and it feels like I want to even though I don't do because I know how destressing it is to live with such disorders and who would ever want to develop a disorder like that. I get intrusive thoughts like about illnesses, identities and other things and my mind says that I have to have those things because they would make me different and my mind wanted me to be different in that way. And it felt like I wanted those things even tho I know how terrible they affect people and didn't really wanted to have them. Now it tells me the same thing about gender and sexuality that I have to be different in that way while I don't and it's causing me hocd right now. I guess this is my final answer but I wanted to know if somebody else experienced something like this. Like sometimes I get depressive episodes because of my anxiety and ocd but once I became obsessed with the idea of having chronic severe depression and I got so anxious but then felt relieved when I didn't but then my intrusive thoughts would pop up here and there
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- Sunflowers44
- Date posted
- 48w ago
intrusive thoughts
does any one else have an intrusive thought and you go over it in your head and try to see if you react in a good or bad way? i’ve been having bad intrusive thoughts but i sometimes have this feeling inside that i like it? and i feel it’s right and i agree inside but my other thoughts are saying no i hate it ?!
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