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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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I’ve wondered the exact same thing, and it’s just another way that our OCD tries to trick us.
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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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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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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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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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- 24w
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
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OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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Hey yall, having a tough time. I’ve been struggling with intrusive thoughts while I self pleasure and it GENUIENLY feels like I enjoy them for whatever reason. And then now about half an hour later it’s like okay it’s a sexual thought but I might not actually like it. Idk I just really hate myself, because I basically genuinely liked it in the moment
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