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- 3y ago
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- 3y ago
They can come in any form!
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- 3y ago
So like if my intrusive thought tells me I love my bf (and I do) but then I question if I do? How do I figure out which is intrusive and which is true? It just confuses me because it makes me not even feel in control of anything I feel
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- 3y ago
@Anonymous Unfortunately I can’t give you the answers you’re looking for, which I really want to and I want to reassure you but I can’t. Sometimes we just need to accept the presence of the thoughts, not the content, which is SO hard to do and so hard to be okay with. And we don’t always get to know which is true and which is intrusive. You know you love your boyfriend and that’s what matters.
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- 3y ago
@Anonymous It’s all intrusive. It’s making you ruminate. Forget about the thought and notice the feeling associated with the thought. That’s what is making it hard for you. The feeling wants you to figure something out. There’s nothing to figure out. Accept the uncertainty and just let the feeling be there without doing anything. What’s the worst that can happen if you don’t do anything??
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- 23w ago
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- 15w ago
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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- 8w ago
Does anyone have any advice for how to know the difference between ocd and real feelings/thoughts? Sometimes an intrusive thought will come in and I immediately know it’s ridiculous and I can just leave it alone and it won’t bother me but other times I really really don’t know. It’s when ocd hijacks and twists my real feelings and thoughts and tries to manipulate me into believing they’re something they’re not or something that doesn’t align with my true morals or intentions. But since it’s twisting and mixing with real feelings I get so confused and scared. Everything gets jumbled and I feel like I can’t trust myself or my own mind. Yet other times and other topics I can laugh off and push away just fine. Make it make sense. And then I start to think well maybe I don’t have ocd at all and I’m just in denial because I don’t want to accept that these scary/concerning things are true about myself. Or maybe that’s just the ocd talking.
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