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It reminds me of a podcast episode I listened to recently: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ocd-stories/id1065492988?i=1000519681749
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Thanks for sharing this! I love the ocd stories and will definitely listen soon
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The thing u said about your dog I’ve experienced and same with a knife around my family members feeling like I want to and am going to do it it fucking sucks I hate this I don’t know a solution other than to sit with the anxiety and not act on the thoughts. stay strong ur not alone I’m currently having an episode rn
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I feel this so much. Definitely sucks, but at the end of the day we’re stronger than our ocd…even though sometimes it kicks us in the ass
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Damn, I can relate to that. Honestly can’t help that much, just some own experiences: 1. Sometimes the fear, like in your case to harm your dog, gets so connected to a person/animal, that I instantly get anxious when seeing them. In my case I try to break routine a little, maybe you should walk your dog in different places, go different paths, maybe some new ones. Just don’t make it too hard, so you won’t get anxious about it. 2. I have a fear of hurting my cat. I have it for 5 years now and never did anything wrong to it (pretty sure you’re too, that’s why you are so afraid of it rn). That’s why I try to keep up the statistics: cuddle it, bring something tasty and play with. And every time I see that nothing wrong happend — it easies my anxiety.
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Thanks for sharing your experiences, I appreciate it greatly.
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Don’t try to test if you are experiencing anxiety. Instead look at anxiety as something that is irrelevant. I get what you’re saying, but it’s not a good indicator of OCD.
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Also…I’ll try to do this for sure…I feel like anxiety is reassurance for me, which I guess means it’s something I should not search for
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I feel this whenever I playfight with my dog. I feel like I want to do these things sometimes and its fucking me up
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An answer to both if you are able because its hard, is remember it doesn't matter if you do or don't secretly want to hurt people or animals it matters whether you do it or not and that choice belongs to you. Your thoughts are not under your control, you aren't them and they don't define you, your choices do.
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Thanks, this is really beneficial. I’ll definitely try to remember this and implement it, while sitting with the anxiety
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Basically long story short, ive been dealing with anxiety for a very long time all my life I'm 23 now but about 5 months ago my anxiety started to get really and I overthink a ton and get worried to easily. So my chest hurt for a while from stress at work made me worry why it was hurting, then me worrying and thinking worse case scenarios was making it worse. So i and to go to the doctor and got diagnosed properly with anxiety and I have a med now that I take when I really need it called hydroxyzine but I also have another med that is Zoloft that I have been taking for a about a month now, to help with my intrusive thoughts I have sometimes i only get them when im stressed or when I'm by myself or when i just overthink in general, my loneliness depression is one of the reasons for my anxiety because I wish I had someone as in partner wise to love me and for me to love them. But anyways I've had intrusive thoughts about possibly hurting myself and family, or even my dog. Ive never acted on any of my thoughts in the past and I don't want to but I have had anxiety attacks when everything feels to real and really scares me. I constantly have the thought of am I crazy or am I becoming crazy and stuff and I've done a lot of looking stuff in the past about symptoms but most of them are identical to what anxiety is so it's hard to tell the difference. It's been probably 2 weeks since we last talked. I've been mostly doing good. But I just was wondering if had a little Harm OCD intrusive thought happen yesterday that targeted my Aunt at work she was complaining all day and when it got closer to the end of the shifts for us. I was already annoyed with a situation that happened earlier in the work day. But she came into my department and then went back over to hers and I said it out loud to myself and said you better get back over there or I'll, I tried to say something else because the word I was going to say was kill you. Obviously I don't but that's what my intrusive thought wanted me to say. And made me think thats why i got to hurt her to stop her complaing So the rest of the night I was saying she is safe I am safe I'm control, like this is just anxiety lying to you, it's just because I'm tired and got annoyed earlier. I can't tell if it was working or not because I was so tired and just wanted to go home. But after work her and I spent time together at our house she was on the one couch and I was on the other with a bunch of our dogs in the living room. I tried to keep my mind off of what happened, and I was fighting some stomach achyness already. But I obviously don't want to hurt her and we had conversations just fine. But I went to my other aunt house at night after work to go to bed because she has to watch my aunts dogs because my other aunt and family is on vacation. But anyways I'm trying to get over that word Kill, that word is what is scarring me and sticking. Like my anxiety is lying saying kill, or basically do harm. I don't want to do anything bad but I'm trying to shake that feeling and stickiness of that word. I'm just so scared and worried.
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I am struggling right now with intrusive harm urges. They feel real and it feels like I am going to act any second. It feels like I have to hold myself back, which is a scary thoughts. I am trying so hard not to compulse, but does anyone have tips on what they do in these situations?
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Recently ive been getting very scared to even be angry bc of the horrible thoughts I have and it feels even more real when I'm angry or even annoyed. Rn I was not even super annoyed at my neice but I felt a twinge of annoyance since she went up to my face and was yelling at me while I was resting on the bed and I got this image of doing something bad to her and I felt my hand twitch very little. I got nervous and felt relieved when her dad told her to stop screaming for no reason. I've been hyperfocusing on my bodily reactions (mainly my hands or how I'm feeling like did I just enjoy that? Was I considering???) And I've noticed the small twitches whenever I'm mad or annoyed and it's scaring me so bad! Like do I want to act out? Am I holding back??? I used to not even twitch at all when mad and I felt 100% sure I'll never act out but now it feels like I don't know bc what do these twitches mean?, I do know I don't want to ever act out but it's so scary. Recently whenever I feel angry once the argument is over I cry really bad after I'm alone and I pray so i never want or act out. And when the annoyance passes I also feel so guilty and want to stay away. Im scared these are real urges and i research for many many hours to make sure they arent urges or impulses and i also tend to ask chatgpt or here if the anxiety gets so bad 😕
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