All of my intrusive thoughts feel so real and I’m having daily panic attacks over them. I’m so scared all of the time and I don’t know what’s going on or why it’s getting so much worse all of a sudden. I hate this so much, I just want to feel normal. Can someone please give me advice on what to do? I am going to a therapist but I’m really hesitant to even bring up the content of my intrusive thoughts.

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.

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.

*not up to, 9 times out of 10 👌.

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.