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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
Calm down, you are not crazy. You can have thoughts about exactly everything. Everybody can get these thoughts, it’s just that we ocd persons believe them like they were real. Thoughts are thoughts. You say that you saw something in a movie that triggered these thoughts. To make it easier to have a distance to your thoughts, look at them like you’re watching them on your TV. You aint your thoughts, you just have them.
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- 6y ago
Thoughts produce feelings and impulses, OCD does the same, not in a way that would make you act on them. It’s just false reactions. I know it’s super scary, I’ve been there. The anxiety could also make you feel that you’re about to loose your mind, it’s just fear that confuses you a lot. You mentioned that you have to control them, try to just let them be instead, nothing will happen. Something that was crucial for me was to talk and share these things with others! You get other perspectives and you’ll probably hear from others that they’ve experienced similar. I know it’s hard to take that step just because you think people will think of you as a dangerous person. Start to talk to someone you really trust, a therapist, regular doctor etc. Harm thoughts are so common. Take a moment now and rest your brain, the right help exists for you.
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- 6y ago
Thank you! This was very helpful! I did email a therapist to book my first therapy sessions. It will start either today and tomorrow, so that’s a start.
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- 6y ago
I feel that aswell when watching things I’m not sure what to do other than just breathe and think I love my mother I wouldn’t want to harm her even if everything in your head tells you you want to
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- 6y ago
thank you
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- 6y ago
thank you
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- 6y ago
I am glad to know I’m not alone. I watch videos on YouTube and it scares me but it gives me impulses that I have to control about harming loved ones. I feel like I am going insane, but I can’t tell this to anyone in my life because they will think of me as a dangerous person, and I’m not. I get so anxious from this I can hardly stand it.
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- 6y ago
We are strong. I remind myself of that every day. I am also in therapy, I actually have an appointment today. Seeing a therapist gives me a lot of hope, and I hope it will do the same for you because eventually we will learn to recognize, accept, and manipulate these thoughts.
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- 6y ago
Exactly! I wish you all the luck!
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- 6y ago
Woho! That’s a big step in the right direction! ?? A tip is to be as honest as possible with your therapist, even though you feel a shame for this, it will help you faster. But don’t stress yourself, you have already been brave to take this first step.
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- 21w ago
I’m having a very bad evening with my intrusive thoughts. I was doing really good dealing with them but tonight one hit me hard. I’ve been having a lot of different intrusive thoughts but I’ll have one occasionally about hurting my mom or my dog who I love and they’re the only family I have in my life. They’re my world. I was helping my mom put away the dishes and I had the big kitchen knife in my hand and my intrusive thought was you could stab your mom. And then my brain said I had a twitch in my hand and that meant I wanted to do it. Let me just say that I wouldn’t hurt a fly. I actually caught a fly in a glass and put it outside instead of killing it this evening before this intrusive thought happened. I’m such a gentle and compassionate and caring person and these thoughts instantly cause me to have a panic attack. And I have no one to talk to them about. I know they’re hard for my mom to hear and I don’t want to be any more of a burden than I already am. I do desperately want to tell her and have her reassure me that I’m not crazy or a psycho. Then my thoughts wander to if your hand did flinch could you be a psychopath. Is hurting someone in you. I know it’s not but I feel like my mind is out to get me and hurt me. I’m working so hard and I thought I was doing so good but I need to know why I have these thoughts. They’re not ok. I need someone to help me make sense of why. I know we aren’t supposed to ruminate but I shouldn’t have thoughts like this about people I love and care about the most in the world.
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- 20w ago
Since I developed ocd as postpartum my ocd has mostly always targeted my kids. It started as harm and then switched to pocd. Both are equally very painful. For years I was mostly able to keep my ocd at bay but when it comes back it’s so bad. I have a son and a daughter and my ocd switches back and forth from kid to kid with horrible intrusive thoughts and now even intrusive ocd dreams. With each thought I get past and start to feel relief another one pops right up. The thoughts feel so real and true even though I know it’s just the ocd and not how I think or feel, the ocd always makes me doubt myself and question everything I think or do. I know other moms/dads go through this too. Please anyone who has or is going through this please tell me how you deal with this. 😪
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- 19w ago
This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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