- Username
- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Hey! So I have Harm OCD too. High five to feeling like a crazy person! Mine mostly centers around my family, but there have been times when I'm driving over bridges and I'm terrified I'll do something to myself. This is way easier said than done, but try not to think about tomorrow. Take each day at a time. When you're on the train tomorrow and that sicky feeling starts creeping up, focus on being present. Touch your seat, feel your shirt, focus on breathing. Remind yourself that thoughts are just thoughts and don't actually mean anything. The more you expose yourself to trains the easier they will become. Think of it as a bully. Tomorrow if you show OCD that you don't care, it won't taunt you as much. If it helps, picture OCD as a bully. One who is taunting you and visually picture yourself walking away and ignoring the lies it spews. God bless you, you will make it through. I promise!
I MADE IT IM ON THE TRAIN
@Hopefuluser14 Heck yeah! Good job!
Yep driving over bridges use to get to me a lot because I would get the feeling or thoughts that I wanted to drive over them with my family in the vehicle and I live in an area with a lot of bridges. Doesn’t bother me as much anymore but it will creep up on me every once in a while. But harm ocd finds other ways to make me obsess outside of bridges. You got this face that train and tell ocd to F off lol
TOLD THE TRAIN TO SUCK IT AND IT WORKED
@Hopefuluser14 YESSSSSSS. Love it!
I have this too such a pain
I also have harm ocd! I get thoughts like this when driving !
^great advice!
I have harm OCD too!! You’re not alone :)
Trains are horrible and railroads are greedy, toxic companies.
Hi guys. So idk who all has read about the Lindsay Clancy case, but ever since it’s been brought out, my harm ocd has sky rocketed. With thoughts towards my fiancé and even my dog 😞 I don’t have any kids, but the idea of losing control one day and acting on these thoughts is really getting to me. My biggest theme for years was harm, then went to suicidal for 2 years, and now I’m right back to harm and it’s freaking me out 😞
i am so terrified i might hurt somebody. i have harm ocd, and lately, the things i do to make myself feel better (my compulsions) aren’t helping anymore and i don’t know what to do. i’m scared i have the urge to hurt somebody, specifically my family. i hate being in the same house as them out of fear i might want to one day grab something and kill them. i don’t. i would never dream of it. but i’m so terrified. i keep on posting about the same things, and i’m sorry, i just don’t know what else to do to make myself feel better. i know i’m supposed to sit with uncertainty, but it’s just so hard 🙁
Hi I’m currently suppressing the urge to vomit and hide in some hole and never come out 😃😃 so, I’m traveling technically today since it’s 1am right now, and I have to go on an airplane, and it’s not even just the airplane that triggers my ocd, it’s the airport itself, it’s so official and security stuff scares me bc like, theres a reason they have security. I’m really tempted to start googling “how likely is it for a plane to crash” or “how to survive a plane crash” and the urge to tell my dad that I love him and to take care of my pets if I don’t come back. Why is my mind like this. Wtf. I want to enjoy my vacation, I also don’t want to have a panic attack in an airport, which has happened before lol. I’m traveling with my mom and my sister, my mom understands ocd and has some knowledge on how to handle it, my sister does not at all. How do I calm myself without it being a compulsion?? I mean, is it okay if I calm myself with prescribed medication and like trying to tune everything out, or is that feeding into the ocd? Because my usual compulsions would be to repeat “it’s okay it’s okay it’s okay” over and over again in my head, and “I’m safe I’m safe I’m safe, nothing is going to happen” and I try not to do that anymore, or just simply not go because of the fear, BUT I’m going because I’m not gonna let ocd take away anymore of my life. I’m just scared and I don’t really know how to cope with this, any advice?
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