- Username
- missbluesky
- Date posted
- 3y ago
so i see you are talking about my post. you have to remember that ocd is different for everyone. it can manifeat in different ways and display it self in different ways. for me i have been doing a bunch of recovery work and pushing my self to be able to identify the thoughts. i was in the same position as you not even a month ago so i completely understand what you mean. doing erp and accepting the uncertainty will help you be able to identify these thoughts. what helps me classify these thoughts is looking back at myself before i developed so-ocd. i ask myself “would i think this before ocd?” 99% of the time the answer is no. so whenever these thoughts appear i just accept their presence and leave them floating in my mind cause i know they mean nothing. you have to remember to stay true to your self cause these are just thoughts. they mean absolutely nothing
Did you tried Exposure response prevention with some level of success? Because this is how I came to be able to identify the intrusives thoughts much clearly. Even if I get hit really bad by ocd, once the anxiety get down a bit I am able to realize that it was just a ocd thought. Before ERP I was in so much anxiety that I was unable to think rationally let alone identifying the thoughts when ocd was striking me.
Oh hun I feel for you ! I saw the post that triggered you . OCD is different for everyone and searching for your experience to match with someone else’s won’t give you reassurance in the long run it will just perpetuate the OCD cycle
the more you try to figure out the thoughts and give them meaning, the longer they will stay
my ocd has been really convincing lately. it’s convincing me that i’m just questioning my sexuality and that i’m bi and just don’t know it yet. i can’t help but think “what if these thoughts and feelings are real” i’m so lost i just feel like all of this has changed who i was. the worst part is that i barely have a reaction to these thoughts so it’s hard for me to tell if it’s ocd or not. how do i know if it’s ocd or i’m just questioning my sexuality??
I’m constantly thinking about hocd thoughts. What if I’m gay? What if you like her? Blah blah things like that, I can’t tell if it’s ocd anymore. Like deep down I know, and some days I know all the time I’m straight. I don’t like girls, I never have. So why can’t I just get it through my head? I’m tired of it. I literally can’t tell anymore
I need to know if someone else experience this because I think this may be the root of some of my ocd themes. So basically even when I don't really have a theme going on I get intrusive thoughts of different topics. For example if I'm reading an article about a person with ADHD my mind tells that maybe I have adhd and because if I had I'd be different, and it feels like I want to even though I don't do because I know how destressing it is to live with such disorders and who would ever want to develop a disorder like that. I get intrusive thoughts like about illnesses, identities and other things and my mind says that I have to have those things because they would make me different and my mind wanted me to be different in that way. And it felt like I wanted those things even tho I know how terrible they affect people and didn't really wanted to have them. Now it tells me the same thing about gender and sexuality that I have to be different in that way while I don't and it's causing me hocd right now. I guess this is my final answer but I wanted to know if somebody else experienced something like this. Like sometimes I get depressive episodes because of my anxiety and ocd but once I became obsessed with the idea of having chronic severe depression and I got so anxious but then felt relieved when I didn't but then my intrusive thoughts would pop up here and there
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