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- 3y
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Content of the thoughts are not important and they feel so real because that is how thoughts work. Especially scary thoughts, its actually how they pull you in, i almost got sucked into my intrusive thoughts again. And they might be true or maybe not. You have to stop trying to understand or figure them out. It just wont happen and even if you do it will not last and your just encouraging more like it in the future. Take tiny steps into changing the way you think but dont get fooled by them because they will think of anything and everything to get you to worry about them.
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- 3y
I kind of disagree with my good fellow right above my post even thought he doesn't say bs. The fact is that a thought is powerful bc it's the sense of life as human beings. If we don't think we'd be like without any conscious. The thing the more you fight against your thoughts the more debilitating it gets to get rid of it. It's like if I told you guys, to not thing about YOUR SMARTPHONE, or A PINK ELEPHANT, what would do? Of course you'd think about it. It's the exact same thing with intrusive thought in a more powerful way bc it involves fear. Honestly I did have pedo intrusive thought and I managed to get rid of it but I'm fed up to write how to do bc 9 up to 10 times the person doesn't answer and continue on suffering without hearing me out or trying to understand my advice. Just make sure that what you experience is common and the more you fight your thoughts the worse it gets to free yourself from them.
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- 3y
*not up to, 9 times out of 10 👌.
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- 3y
I agree with both of you in a sense. I know that thoughts are just thoughts, and they only have the power that we give give to them, but why do our brains come up with this shit? It’s actually exhausting. At this point what bothers me is the fact that it’s becoming harder every day to differentiate between an intrusive thought and an intentional thought. I want a new fucking brain.
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- 25w
It feels like I used to get so many intrusive thoughts in the beginning but now it’s less it’s only thoughts like what if I’m a p what if I’m a p what if I’m lying to myself what if I’m in dentist truly in all this and it was all fake like I’m an imposter, now it’s just feelings and noticing :/ and I hate he feelings that come with it I’m really scared I am one I feel so alone :( I’m taking therapy but my therapist is not specialized in ocd and I don’t think she understands and I don’t want to bring it up bc I brought up a fear that what if I turn into my stepdad and she said “are you attracted to children?” And I said no but it was just an irrational thought that came after I started realizing the trauma that happened to me as a kid, and idk I’m scared to Start with a therapists here bc what if all this just makes it worse and it turns out I am what I fear all along.? :(
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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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- 13w
I know I am going a bit cuckoo because my period is coming up, but lately it feels like every intrusive thought I have, I *like* it. Like I genuinely feel like I like it, and then I immediately panic because I start checking. Mentally, emotionally, whatever it is. And I know that is a compulsion. I *know* that. But it feels so real that I cannot stop myself. Every single time I check, it still feels like I like the thought, and it is driving me absolutely insane. It is especially the POCD thoughts. They feel so real. I feel like something is going on mentally, like some kind of confusion or glitch, because I swear I was not like this before. I would have intrusive thoughts, and they would feel real, but not *this* real. And I do not even know if this is normal. I know OCD is **supposed** to feel convincing. That is the whole thing. But I have never experienced it to this extreme. I have never gotten the same thought so many times and still felt like, “Oh my God, I did enjoy it,” even after checking a million times. It is like no matter how many times I check, it feels like I liked it. Especially during intimacy :( and it is making me lose it. Then I start thinking, “Well, I am in distress, so maybe that is proof it is not actually me.” But right after, I am like, “What if I am only panicking because I care about what society thinks and not because I actually have morals?” And then I spiral again, wondering if maybe I just care about how I am seen rather than who I am. I am panicking so much no today. I had to take my Xanax today for the first time in two months, and I needed three separate doses. I really need some support right now.
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