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First off, the best treatment for DRDP is to recognize and accept the sensations. Second, please know that the thoughts you are experiencing are not you. If you were actually a psychopath or criminal, you wouldn't experience worry about the thoughts. They'd be normal to your mind, and you wouldn't be on this app or even doubting them. In fact, I can guarantee that you won't do anything your mind is thinking. If you want to talk more, please let me know. I'm going through something similar. But we're all fighting the good fight together.
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Sometimes I wish I didn't have arms or hands because I worry I'll lose control because of how real the sensation or feeling on my hand feels... I literally didn't have these harm thoughts this week because of my existential ocd thoughts! Harm thoughts don't hit me as hard as existential ocd.. And I wish It did give me a lot of anxiety Im afraid these thoughts will become normal or Im afraid my mind will make a plan to hurt others I don't want too ah! Let's keep fighting!
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@Mayte Btw, here's a very useful article that made me feel a bit better. I'm not sure if NOCD allows links, but here it is: https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/overcoming-harm-ocd
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Well, the best thing for you to do is recognize that this is ***your OCD trying to occupy your life*** I know how hard it is to think you're normal, but please know that this isn't an indicator that you're nuts. Some of the thoughts feel so, so real and you may think you want to do it. But again, if you were actually considering doing something terrible, you wouldn't be on this app or be worried about it.
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Thank you so much for the link! I read almost everything and realized I do those rituals š . My mind tells me do it and my heart starts beating fast and I'll sit on my hands to get rid of the feeling and I'll try not to react to the thought. It just worries me how I don't get much anxiety but I understand!
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@Mayte So the feelings in your hands is actually anxiety. Anxiety is the overstimulation of your nervous system (i.e. your fight or flight response), which causes a "tingling sensation" throughout various locations of your body. I often thought that sensation meant that I wanted "to do it," bit it's really just your mind and physical body working against you.
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@Austin1121 Wow I didn't know that! Thank you for letting me know!! I remember when I was small I would get thoughts once in a while to hurt someone at home and I would get really red and intense like my face and I don't think I would wanna do it but I think I would get up and avoid the knife or just sit and wait for it to pass then I would forget! That's what also got me to wonder if I was going crazy now...
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@Mayte So you avoiding a potential weapon of harm is one of the benchmarks for Harm OCD. It's a ritual to avoid or hide objects that can be used for violence. Again, if you're to the point of avoiding knives and such, you are absolutely NOT a murderer.
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- 22w
Hello, Iām new to this app. Iāve always had an anxious brain, and Iāve had coping mechanisms for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, from as early as I could spell, until I was probably early teens, I would constantly write words in my head along to the beat of music. Itās such a vivid memory because I never stopped doing it. The word had to perfectly match up to the lyric and I loved that it kept my brain busy. I grew out of that, but felt like good context. My anxiety increased drastically around ages 17-19, and I began therapy. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety and panic disorder, due to having a panic attack nearly every day at that time. I overcame that as well, and now the panic attacks are every now and then, but the anxiety is constant, and some recent symptoms have led me to believe I might have some form of OCD. Maybe not. Iām trying to understand myself and get better so I joined this app to make sense of things. Lately Iāve been having really intense intrusive thoughts. Iām really embarassed and they make me feel like a bad person. Thoughts pop in my head seemingly out of nowhere. It will be an image of me harming myself or someone else in a really bad way. (Trigger warning) for example the other day I couldnāt shake the image of me putting a knife through my own forehead, although itās not something I want to do. Or Iāll imagine someone killing me. I imagine my loved ones dying often. The thoughts feel so out of my control itās insane. I hate them. Another persistent issue that isnāt as new is replaying social scenarios. Iām a hairstylist so this one is difficult since I meet a bunch of new people every day. I obsess over how I act and if people like me. I will impulsively say things all the time and they will haunt me for weeks. I question even my closest friends and family who show their love. I find myself so angry and numb and like I have so much built up emotion and a busy mind always. While doing my job I spiral really badly if any little thing goes wrong and itās embarassing. I know thereās more but I canāt think of it now. I just want to feel better and like Iām not constantly battling my mind.
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- 22w
Why am I not anxious? Like at all anymore? Is it because I'm really avoiding and trying not to think of the consequences that come from possibly being a pdfile? Is the only thing that is worrying me about it is the consequences then does it mean that I really am one? But I never masturbated to the thought of a child and actively seeked it. It came as intrusive thoughts while I was doing it yes I've had them when I see kids yes and I question and check a lot if I'm attracted to them and its just confusing me, I know I'll never do anything to hurt a child and I don't even like the idea of becoming a pdfile then why am I not anxious enough about it? The thoughts are just distressing obsessive I feel disgusting and Id say I still do compulsions but I don't know something just doesn't feel right. I don't feel anything and no real attraction to anyone or anything anymore. I just feel so disgusting and I just want to be normal but then again I pretty much did this to myself. It's weird to me I know there isn't a real indication I'm a pdfile and past experiences pretty much prove that and I've always been attracted to older guys so why is this happening now? Why am I getting these thoughts now especially right after I was trying to fix this sexual obsession/tension I had for older guys. Is my brain just leaving one thing to love and be obsessed about and going to the other? I'm really really just confused. Not anxious just distressed confused and uncomfortable. Like I want to throw up but I don't feel intense anxiety in my chest it feels like maybe I haven't processed what's going on properly. I'm genuinely so confused and I don't want to have this stay in my mind. Sometimes I just miss my ex so much because at the time I've felt something I felt so much things even though I had really bad rocd. I just miss loving people again and being alive again. I'm so scared and confused right now can anyone explain to me what is this? I genuinely just want to understand what I'm feeling or thinking because its not making sense to me
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- 20w
Iāve been triggered so bad this week Iāve had bad anxiety and feel depression coming on. Last night I had a thought oh letās plan it and I immediately thought why would I think that and started crying bad. Iāve had these thoughts for 7 months I really donāt know why Iām having these thoughts, if I knew I would work on it. Like people say has something happened in your life for you to have these thoughts and nothing has happened, it all started off from what if thoughts , like āwhat if Iām a psychoā because I saw this fb post saying introverts are more likely to become psychopaths and it all spiralled from there I started getting thoughts about harm towards others and myself. What do you think guys should I treat it like ocd or do you think thereās something seriously wrong with me.
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