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Could you develop it I struggle really figure the way your intrusive thoughts seem to overlap.
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Yeah so it’s hard to figure out when the thoughts are so irrational but it feels like because I could of done something in the past and risked doing something or even maybe did (I don’t think I did but it’s obviously a possibility), it tells me I’m a bad person and that I need to do something far worse (so more terrifying intrusive thoughts) so that I get caught. It’s a really strange cycle. Does that make more sense?
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Definitely. Do you mind if I answer tomorrow (yes it's 12pm her in France 😅) but I'll ask u a simple question later cuz it reminds me of some thoughts overlapping endlessly sounds interesting. See u later! 👍
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Thank you
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OK so it's interesting because I think I've experienced the same stuff but far less with the past, and far more with the future like, I did some things in the past and my future will be hell bc of it. Like saying out loud awful things like "I hope this person or myself will suffer this way etc" all of that bc I was afraid to be heard without my knowledge. And I thought at first that it was completely dumb to ever imagine I could be recorded or listened without knowing it I so kept on saying awful things over and over again, always to persuade myself it was bullshit to be scared this way. But I overlapped, things incremented together and I ended up thinking "Oh damn maybe I've been listened" 🤔 😭😅 honestly I've been suffering a lot from this shit it's like it never will end up one the most complicated ocd I ever struggle with. And it isolates me from friends or family bc I feel guilty af for what I said, again not to curse them but at first to fuck OCD like "I'm not afraid of u fucking OCD shit" but now I'm wasted.
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It’s so exhausting isn’t it, feels like you can’t do right from wrong then I spend time beating myself up because of how irrational my thinking has been
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I totally relate to your point. It's like whatever we do we end up getting stuck you do your compulsions you're owned, you don't do your compulsions your wrecked, to me it's like I'm two people in one person. But I think it's commo' from people experiencing ocds.
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It makes me think 🤔 What's your main ocd? Is it pedophilic obsessions? If it is, I could help you with my own experience, it's something I beat up so well many years ago for real! I did good battles against it, but it's really tough tho, but I literally killed it so if you need some pieces of advice I'm here 🙋♂️👌
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It Seem so interesting! Even though I'm lost in " My thoughts tell me I should hurt / attack people so that I get" caught" by police etc... ". What do you mean about that? The" should" is like you're in a masochist thought it's like you feel the urge " to make things" awful and I use the air quote bc I understand you don't to hurt anyone and I don't want to trigger you about anything I just want to understand the detail (it is not judgmental AT All trust me you are talking to someone who experienced a lot of maxed out shit so you can express your feelings just I like to understand it precisely 😊👍👌
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It's like you fucking freak out about hurting someone don't you?
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Yeah exactly
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It's like you brain feels the urge to ask yourself to hurt someone because like "you should do it", it's your compulsions! Is it?
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"you can't do right from wrong" I'd rather say "you can't do right whatever the decision you take when it comes to OCD". You beat urself up like phisically?
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Not physically, mentally, I get so irrational that ocd makes me feel like a bad person no matter what I do
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Thank you so much for saying that, it’s really helped me feel less confused
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Ur welcome dude, we're in the same shit it's always nice to share so thanks to you too 👍. Are your thoughts inner words or do you talk to yourself out loud? I don't recall talking about that to you. I talk to myself like a lot not that common but an American university did a study about this and it was rather good actually (for people talking to themselves - it's like we're not that crazy after all lol!).
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A bit of both but mainly inner. Feel like I’m always in my head talking to myself though lol
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It’s mainly harm, sort of like real event harm. The basis of my thoughts is that I have a thought that I possibly could have purposely physically hurt someone and the uncertainty of not knowing 100% keeps the cycle going. My thoughts tell me I should hurt / attack people so that I get ‘caught’ by police etc., and in the moment, because it makes me feel guilty and as though it is my responsibility to do these things (as crazy as it sounds!!). I talk back to it with rationality to put some perspective in but the emotional blackmail ocd gives me seems to outweigh any rationality at the time. I don’t think I’ve ever acted on my thoughts but can’t be sure and that’s what keeps the cycle going. Then later on, rationality kicks in and I’m disgusted and shocked at myself for even arguing with the thoughts of considering them.
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It’s so complicated but I think the deep routed issue here that ocd has some sort of control over me and that’s my fault.
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You don't wanna hurt anyone*
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Yeah, I don’t want to hurt anyone, my mind tells me I should do as it tells me I’m a bad person etc etc. and that I deserve to hurt someone (so crazy I know) so that I love my life forever regretting and unable to move on.
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*Live my life
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Does anyone ever feel like you know you have OCD, but at the same time you think it might actually be you connecting to a higher consciousness or vibration that is trying to control your decisions so that the outcome does not turn out bad kind of like the butterfly effect. It drives me crazy because I know I’m conscious that it’s OCD but at the same time I overthink and feel like it might be a higher power trying to warn me that I’m not doing something right, like example; if I flip the trash can lid a couple more times it’s going to pervert something bad from happening and that why I’m sensing I’m not doing it right, because if I spent a little more time there and if I would have left earlier the outcome would’ve been different. Or say I just fight through it and choose to ignore it, but then I’ll carry that negativity/worry of not feeling like I did it right and will project it out into existence because the thought won’t leave my head and in a way your seeking it out into existence since you keep thinking about it, kind of like an affirmation?
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With real event OCD, I don’t know if any of you feel this way, but do you ever feel that the past event(s) that you ruminate about or constantly obsess about are gonna come up in your future and just absolutely ruin you, that’s how I’ve been feeling for months, it just feels like impending doom, and I hate having to even think that my future would be ruined by what I did as a teenager, and I did some dumb things, that I regret so deeply, I just can’t stop thinking about that.
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I would really appreciate it so much if someone took the time to read this and help me. I don’t know what to do anymore. I haven’t posted here in awhile. I had my OCD managed pretty decently for a year or so on medication, but I had to stop taking it, and after around 3-4 months, the OCD has become unbearable again. It used to be much more surrounding existential themes, eating, and others, not really real event/false memory stuff. But now it’s gotten really out of hand and I don’t know how to do it anymore. It’s surrounding a time of my life a long time ago. It was a dark time. I wasn’t myself and I was going through a lot of things, and I did a lot of things I regret. I self-destructed, embarrassed myself, and wasn’t good to the people around me. I was able to get my mind off of it for a long time, even though I would still think about it a good amount. I was able to be in the present, at least moreso than now. But now that I’m off medication, the guilt has become my obsession again. I can’t move on. I can’t do anything without thinking about all of these memories. I’m obsessed. I’ve started hating myself again, so much so that it’s hard to do anything anymore or believe I deserve anything good. The people around me tell me it wasn’t even that bad, but to me it was. To me, I failed myself, lost myself, and failed everyone around me. I can’t stop thinking about every person I said something wrong to or every time I screwed up. I’ve now started to convince myself I did terrible things I can’t remember, and that my mind just can’t deal with it. And that’s why I feel so guilty. There’s nothing to really support this though. But I’m starting to really convince myself that’s true. I’m trying not to listen to it, because I’ve convinced myself I have hit people with my car before and haven’t remembered when I absolutely didn’t and I know I never have. I drive back over and over to check there’s no one, even though I never heard any bang or felt myself anything. I can convince myself of some crazy false memories. So I know that I shouldn’t listen. But it’s hard not to when I have this guilt gnawing at me constantly. I come to conclusions that this guilt must be because I did something terrible that I don’t remember, even though I already think the things I remember were bad enough. But I would know by now right? If I did something bad I don’t remember? I don’t feel like this all the time. But it’s a lot of the time. But maybe that should be reassuring, that I only start obsessing like this when I think to. The past haunts me though. And I can never be in the present. I’ve started to resort to some unhealthy behaviors to distract myself or help me work towards something. I am starting to hate myself so much and feel like there’s no way I’ll ever be able to get out of this loop. I feel like I just can’t do this anymore. Maybe I need to go back on medication. But I don’t know. I don’t really want to. But will I ever fix this without it? Why do I feel SO guilty, all of the time? I do all these things for people because I feel indebted to them, because I feel undeserving of everything. I feel awful about myself. I don’t know what to do. Does anyone else deal with this?
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