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- ab747
- Date posted
- 5y ago
- Username
- sams07sams07
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Your life is not over. You know in your heart you haven’t. Write down some reminders to yourself that you haven’t. OCD has a way of catastrophizing our thoughts. When you’re catastrophizing, this is a clue that this is your OCD!
- Username
- sams07sams07
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I think you’re seeking support, not reassurance :) I would recommend journaling. This way, you’re able to make sense of your thoughts, maybe even see how irrational they are written. When you find yourself doubting, go back to the notes you have written yourself. I would also suggest sitting with the thought, labeling it as “irrational”. If you feel uncomfortable, that’s okay, OCD does that. But with time, the thoughts will become less scary and you’ll be able to shrug them off.
- Username
- ab747ab747
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Thank you ): I know it is bad to seek reassurance but I just feel like a monster and my whole life is a lie so I needed some advice on how to stop this
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- halespineapple18halespineapp...
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I deal with false memories. I know the people on here saying to tell yourself you haven’t done it, are trying to help but that easily becomes a compulsion and something I do all the time. The only thing that helps me is to tell myself. Ok maybe I did. Maybe I didn’t. I know that sounds daunting but it’s dealing with the uncertainty because honestly even if you know you didn’t, you are always going to be uncertain about that. Ocd has us questioning and doubting everything. No ERP therapist is going to reassure you or tell you to write down why you didn’t do it. That is feeding into the ocd. Rather they are going to have you exposure yourself to the thought/ false memory. Don’t feed into the ocd to try and find out if you did or why or how, it only makes it worse. Tell your ocd that maybe it did maybe it didn’t but you are choosing to deal with the uncertainty and live your life the way you want to and with the values YOU choose. Much love to you ❤️
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- ChrisOCDChrisOCD
- Date posted
- 5y ago
false memories are the worst thing I've ever dealt with. Trust yourself and just accept the uncertainty and it will fade away to nothing.
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- letsgo
- Date posted
- 5y ago
TW!! POCD Please help. I’ve been doing decent lately but just need support on something that has kept me stuck. I can’t tell if this is a real memory or not, but I’m pretty sure it is. Maybe distorted. But feels so real. And I’m terrified. Last year before my huge OCD spike. So before I even knew I had OCD. I remember being around kids at work, and this girl in a skirt was on a climber on the playground and I remember looking up and you could see her underwear. I remember staring for a minute, and it was kind of like a car accident, I couldn’t look away. I remember finally coming to my senses and saying I wonder what people would think if they knew I was doing this. After that, I completely forgot about it until my spike in October and I’ve been living in a prison of regret and guilt ever since. I sometimes see that child at work still and I get a rush of anxiety and guilt. I just don’t know how to move pass this, for this reason it gives my OCD proof that I am what I fear so much. Is it possible that I was experiencing intrusive thoughts then and just didn’t care enough or realize it. I’m so broken from this. I hate what I’m going through. I hate myself if this memory is real.
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- Wishingforpeace
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Does anyone else know they didn’t do something but than they can’t be certain they didn’t ? I have intrusive thoughts that make me terrified I have abused a child. One minute I’m positive I haven’t and the next I can’t be 100%. I end up going over a situation so much I add details that then become real to me and make me doubt myself more. For example, I just changed her diaper and now I’m terrified I did something I wasn’t suppose to even though I know I didn’t. But now I’m sitting here concerned I did. How do you cope with this?
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- Jbgys543
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I’m scared I had an orgasm to an intrusive thought of some disgusting image I saw on tiktok. If I did I don’t think I can live with myself and now I wanna take my own life. My mind was so full of intrusive thoughts it was crazy so I really don’t know what I had an orgasm to
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