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- witcheegypsee
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- 5y ago
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- colleen123colleen123
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Well sometimes intrusive thoughts happen so often like they are always there it gets confusing plus you could be doing mental checking such as “do I enjoy these thoughts?” Or what’s real and what’s not since ocd feels so real Your not alone though
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- m.a.d.m.a.d.
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- 5y ago
I’ve wondered the exact same thing, and it’s just another way that our OCD tries to trick us.
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- witcheegypseewitcheegypsee
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- 5y ago
I do mental checks constantly and I get urges to do terrible things and it makes the anxiety worse. I don’t know what to do when they happen. I try to tell myself “No, that’s terrible, stop thinking about that and relax”, but they eventually come back and are more persistent. I was struggling with HOCD for 6 months and now POCD has just started and I can’t stand to be around children even though I know I’m born to be a mother. These thoughts have genuinely ruined my life and all sense of happiness and I’m only in the early stages of this. I’m honestly terrified of myself.
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- alyssa90alyssa90
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- 5y ago
I went through this as well it’s just another way for you to get sucked in don’t do it! Resist the urge to figure things out ❤️
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- m.a.d.m.a.d.
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- 5y ago
I deal with HOCD and believe me, I’ve done the same thing so many times and attributed the desire to ‘check’ (a compulsion) to the desire to think the thoughts/want them. But that’s just the OCD (and the fact that people across themes have described the same feeling shows that it is). I think maybe when you tell yourself “no, that’s terrible, stop thinking about it...” it’s you resisting the thoughts. Instead, I find it helps to do a mini mindfulness/meditation, and sit in the thought and tell yourself “huh, maybe, but I’m going to keep doing what i’m doing and not worry about that thought”. Rather than giving the thought a negative reaction (“no, that’s terrible..”) or an overly positive one (“ya, I do like that”), giving it a neutral reaction tells your brain that the thought really does not matter, and that you are going to live by your values and by your own decisions, and not how your OCD tells you to live. Eventually the thoughts (or rather the anxiety and value that you give to them) will become fewer, and things will start to make sense again. I hope this helped a little bit!
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- witcheegypseewitcheegypsee
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- 5y ago
That has helped a lot! This all has. Thank you all so much. I honestly don’t know where I’d be if it wasn’t for this app.
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- Nandini
- Date posted
- 5y ago
i am confused with how to deal with intrusive thoughts. i think that i have suicidal ocd btw. do i ignore the thoughts, or think that they are not true, etc? i HATE intrusive thoughts soo much. i just never know if they are real or not. i don’t know if I am actually suicidal or if these are fake thoughts. i know that i don’t have the symptoms for people with actual suicidal thoughts, but that’s reassurance which doesn’t really help me!! idk i’m confused, i am always confused. i don’t really know what to trust. so, if anyone knows what to do when you have intrusive thoughts, please let me know!
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- missbluesky
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- 3y ago
I feel like I can’t identify intrusive thoughts…I’m just constantly trying to figure my sexuality out. Like, it’s the first thing on my mind in the morning and the last thing before I go to bed and I’ve been diagnosed with OCD several times but like??? Why do some people know they’re having “1-3 thoughts per hour” if I can’t even identify them?
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- Nica
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- 1y ago
What Are Intrusive Thoughts? Dr. Martin Seif
Every highly anxious person has to cope with intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts are frightening thoughts about what might happen to you or someone you care about, or what you might do to yourself or another person. They seem to come from outside of your control, and their content feels alien and threatening. For some people, intrusive thoughts are part and parcel of panic or intense anxiety. In these types of intrusive thoughts, it feels like the thoughts come about as a result of the anxiety, and they function to add more fear to the anxiety you are already experiencing. The intrusive thoughts keep the anxiety going, and maintain the fear-producing spiral. So, for example, you might think, “what if I have a heart attack?” in the midst of an anxiety attack. You are already in the altered state of consciousness that I call anxious thinking, and your thoughts feel likely to happen. However, there is another class of intrusive thoughts that I call intrusive obsessive thoughts. These thoughts seem to come from out of nowhere, arrive with a distressing whoosh, and cause a great deal of anxiety. The content of intrusive obsessive thoughts almost always focus on sexual or violent images. Here are typical examples of intrusive obsessive thoughts: “Killing someone. Torturing a pet animal. Stabbing a child. Throwing someone (or yourself) out of a window. Jumping onto a train track as the train comes into the station. Molesting a child. Raping someone. Taking off your clothes in public.” This is not a complete list, but it gives you a good feeling of the content of these thoughts. People who experience intrusive obsessive thoughts are afraid that they might commit the acts they picture in their mind. They might imagine hurting someone or committing an act of sexual violation. Intrusive obsessive thoughts can be very explicit, and most people are embarrassed and frightened of them. There are a number of myths about intrusive obsessive thoughts. The greatest myth is that having thoughts of a sexual or violent nature mean that you want to do the things that come into your mind.This is not true. You do not want to do the things that enter your mind when you have intrusive obsessive thoughts. In fact, the opposite is true. People with intrusive obsessive thoughts are gentle and non-violent. FULL ARTICLE: https://drmartinseif.com/intrusive-thoughts/
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