I used to get intrusive images and like scenes played out in my mind that used to make me really anxious but they don’t bother me so much now I know its only a thought but sometimes now I’ll get intrusive thoughts that start with ‘I want...’ or ‘you want..’ even though I know I really don’t want those things and it feels so opposite to me but its stresses me out so much is that still classed as an intrusive thought?

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.

Thank you! Its what stresses me out the most now

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!

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

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!

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.

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