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- 3y
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- 3y
That’s how this works I’m struggling with both harm and existential OCD
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- 3y
Hang in there buddy
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- 3y
It’s just so hard. It’s such a specific thought related to my theme and it won’t go away.
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 3y
I will tell you something, and you can take it or leave it. But there is an amazing reality that you might not know exists yet. The reality looks like this: you continue to have the thought, but you don’t care anymore. And you start to enjoy life again, even when the thought is present. Eventually the thought begins to disappear, but if it came back again it wouldn’t matter. You would still be happy and peaceful. This exists. It’s happened to me with thoughts that I thought would torture me for the rest of my life. The secret or not so secret truth, is you will get better once you accept this thought and don’t try to escape from it. Give it a chance to exist with you, and give it room. Nothing worse can happen if you just let it exist and you don’t give in to compulsions. Try it and see what magic comes your way
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- 3y
Me too it’s so hard, I feel so horrible
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- 3y
I feel this way tooo
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- 21w
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?
- Harm OCD
- Relationship OCD
- OCD newbies
- Mid-life adults with OCD
- "Pure" OCD
- Young adults with OCD
- Older adults with OCD
- POCD
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- 19w
I don’t know how to deal with the thoughts that come and barely gone. Usually, the brain often remembers and forgets things. People with OCD however struggle with trying to forget the intrusive thoughts because of the imbalance trying to convey what is real and if the thoughts in your head will come true. Just for the past few days, I was having fun and suddenly hit with a wave of obsessive thoughts and making me stuck with nowhere to go.
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- 12w
So I had a panic attack a while ago to “kill mom” and I forgot about the thought until a few days later. When it came back I was mentally drained and it lasted for 2 months or more. It eventually went away but it is back. I get other intrusive thoughts but they go away after a hour or so. Why am I stressing over “kill mom” so much. I just get irritated that it won’t go away. I’m beginning to think it’s a different mental illness maybe just anxiety? I’m not sure to be honest. It just appears and sits there and I feel like I’m doomed and a pyscho and worry that I’ll never forget the thought.
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