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like i’m literally dealing with this problem and then i add my old intrusive thoughts onto it and i just keep pulling a loose thread and i make it worse oooooh lord
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I feel so bad when they come up on purpose or they just get stuck and keep repeating. I HATE it
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@Just Breathe ❤️ HAHAHA IKR !! love my little problem <3
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@wangoose Hahahaha
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i’ve done that too for some stupid reasons but yeah it can be ruminations. once i was at the hospital and i wasn’t being let in the ER fast enough bc my heart rate calmed down so i started ruminating on things bc i thought maybe that would get my heart pumping, then i realized that was stupid and stopped but a few days later i started ruminating on WHY i did that it was a big mess 😭
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I had a horrible intrusive thought last night and I just happened to think about it on purpose trying to calm myself down I guess and I was just wondering if that was considered ruminating. I’m so sorry that happened to you. Ocd sucks
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@Just Breathe ❤️ yup that’s considered rumination and tysm yeah it sucked but i realized how stupid i was being and got myself out of the potential rumination lmao
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@Xxara You’re welcome and thank you too
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Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
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OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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Does confessing an intrusive thought just make it come back stronger?
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