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Hi, I have this too!! Especially when I’m in a loop with them and around my family. It’s soooo awful! And yet it is OCD 100 %. I am also an alcoholic and I go to AA and I say hi my name is Liz and I am alcoholic. My recent therapist suggested I say hi my name is Liz and I have these horrible OCD thoughts. If I can own this definition, take a breath when in my worst thoughts and say hey I know what I have, I have OCD and this is the exact definition. I need to accept what I have and work on it with techniques. I have to work really hard and I think we all do because we need to learn how to sit with the discomfort. I think a great thing to realize is it’s the reaction in our minds to these thoughts that is the worst. Clare weeks said something amazing about OCD she said ...‘don’t just do something! Sit there and let time pass.’ I repeat this now when crazy thoughts come up and it helps get me through. The more you can sit with the discomfort of your triggers the better you will even though it is so uncomfortable! I’m just trying to get used to that discomfort and it will pass. The key is also not to keep engaging and talking back to your mind since OCD isn’t a real thought or a realistic one especially when we hate it so much!! Hope this helps. You’re not alone 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Thank you so much, glad I’m not the only one but I’m sorry you’re going through the same thing. I haven’t been diagnosed with OCD yet, but I feel like I have a lot of symptoms. I feel like a hypocrite for crying, I feel like it was all fake bc my intentions are to actually harm my family. But they’re not, even when it feels like the opposite. I’m still scared because I don’t know if it could happen or not...
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So glad I’m not alone in this. I feel this 100%
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You are not alone!! Definitely OCD ...this is the exact definition and you’re in absolutely the right place!!🌷I also practice creating space between the thoughts and catching them then they first come up..,I find it really important not to make them important otherwise they drag me in and take me in stupid circles ....just keep doing what you were you were doing activity wise or conversation wise and let them float like clouds past your mind. It takes practice and awareness but you can do it. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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But the discomfort is so hard, when I’m in a bad moment that’s the hardest and the anxiety from it, but I am also practicing to allow the discomfort. It will pass and the more you recognize the patterns the easier it gets!! I’m just learning all this, like a new language, so crazy!
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I dont know whats going on. I dont know if its OCD anymore. I know it was in the beginning. Ive been through a lot of trauma and had one little scary thought of killing my sister 4 months ago that has blossomed into this giant idea of me being a serial killer and wanting to hurt everyone (I never had any social issues growing up but I have had some trauma). Recently I’ve been having urges to just give in. And my mental images have been horrible and I can’t stop checking if I like them or not. I think I’ve convinced myself I have. This morning I woke up a shaking mess with an urge to unalive my family and when my mom left for work I was alone with my sister and couldnt stop vomiting uncontrollably. I dont know if i’m upset because I cant hurt anyone and I want to, or if I’m scared and just want my old life back. I was an avid horror and gore lover and now I’m convinced I want to do the things I’ve seen in the movies. Someone please help. I’m ready to check into the psych ward.
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*tmi warning* I'm so worried im a P. Ive been crying daily unable to do anything else but ruminate over my real events. When i was 14 (before ocd) i was watching adult content and it was censored. The woman had similar features like hair and skin color as my niece. I remember noticing that and saying "huh i guess I'll imagine that as the adult version of my niece" and I did and after i was finished i moved on and didnt think anything was wrong. I dont know if i ever thought about that again? Its so blurry ocd keeps saying i did it again in a different time but i dont remember its too blurry and its scaring me so badly! I didnt even remember this till like literally last week and i wanted to die! Im 20 for context. When I remembered i immediately broke down in tears. I vaguely rmemeber this other thought i had of her when self pleasuring when I was 16??? I think it was a testing thought out of distress? But im not sure at all! It was extremely vague image and unrealistic i dont think I liked it but maybe i did?! Im so distressed its like i remmeber 2 versions of this particular event which is why I think its ocd false memories from there. Ive been ruminating and spiraling for almost a week. I keep crying i havent ate well at all in days ive been honestly dehydrating myself and i cannot sleep. I feel like a monster. I did the mistake of researching last night and kept comparing myself to the "criteria" of those sickos and like I felt so distressed. I also have been asking ai for hours on end everyday. I feel so distressed im literally crying rn as i write this i cant calm down i feel like this sick individual even tho I dont even like thinking of that at all i dont think I meant ill intent when i was a teen but its killing me inside. I would NEVER harm anyone nor want to or plan to, deep down i know I would never act out in those evil ways but like whats killing me is what if im attracted?! Is this a sign?! Am i one of those people?! Am i attracted to my niece bc of those 2 maybe even 3(??)thoughts years ago?! Did i mean ill intent?! Am I an actual danger?! Am I a monster??? I have so many urges to confess to my mom im so scared what this all means or could mean. I feel so alone and scared. Like legit whenever i get intrusive thoughts about gross stuff i feel disgusted and anxious and push it away. Those thoughts do not bring me pleasure whatsoever but this real event is making me doubt my own identity 😔
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- 18w
There are moments when something takes over me, like I have to fight myself (literally restrain myself) from acting on my thoughts, like causing harm to my parents or brother. I get these feelings that feel so real, like they are genuinely my own. There are moments when I feel like I like them, and it makes me question whether this is truly OCD or if it's me. Then I wonder whether this is me lying to myself, because I feel the urge to smile at the thought, or feel like I have some pleasure. I check whether I like them, and then I feel like I do, so I stop immediately. I feel like my old self is gone, and I've become this person, and that it was never OCD. Right now, as I type this, I feel like I'm lying to myself. There are moments when I feel like my brain splits, as if this is my new personality. Or there are moments when I feel like it might feel liberating or freeing if I do it. I genuinely feel like this is not OCD. There are moments when I stop the thought, and I feel like it's out of principle, as if I don't truly want to stop at that thought. I truly can't picture this to be my life now. I never had these thoughts in my life until two and a half months ago. It truly makes me question whether it was OCD. I don't get why. I used to view my family as my world, and now my mind is making me scared and feel like my room is my only safe place from them, from me.
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