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- JBird88
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yes, I have harm ocd and get this when I am going through an episode. It’s almost like I’m hyper aware of every emotion. Any negative emotion means I must be losing my mind or going crazy. I know it’s easier said than done but just try and let go. Let the thoughts and crazy conclusions flow in and just don’t give them a reaction. Try to resist the urge to get to the bottom of everything. That’s what worked best for me
The more you are able to practice this technique; the more it will just become the natural way you handle the thoughts, and the intensity of the intrusive thoughts should lessen. Think of it as retraining your brain. Right now the fear and constant doubt towards the thoughts has trained your brain that there is a reason to fear them! This means your brain will throw more and more of these thoughts at you because you’re always ringing the alarm bells! The more you are able to let the thoughts pass without reacting, the faster your brain will learn to that they are no threat, and you will start getting them less and less, until they disappear completely
Thank you Francis
Do I have to practice this everyday ? And does it feel weird
Also Francis do you have thoughts that make you feel like you are just a body or just a floating spirit or that you were barely put on this earth ?
If you don’t already, I would highly recommend seeing a therapist trained in ERP to help you with this process. It is totally possible to do it alone, but sometimes therapists can give you the initial courage/structure to start fighting back. It’s just a bully that’s all.
Wow I really related to this. About being hyperaware - I myself am a musician and I feel like recently being so hyperaware about my creativity has actually hindered it. Thinking "you must write like this" or " you've forgotten how to make this kind of song" and overthinking every thing I think!!
To your second question, I have not personally had thoughts exactly like those, but I know many people in the ocd community that have had similar thoughts. Living in a dream, not sure if they really exist, etc.
Woke up this morning immediately looking for the thoughts that I’ve been having even though i don’t want to think about them. I feel like i ended up bringing them upon myself and then i had a super gruesome thought and have been worrying about it all morning. Is it possible to bring thoughts upon yourself? Is it ocd or is it just me? I’m just so scared of going “crazy” that i keep looking for thoughts deciding if it’s me or not if you know what i mean. It’s such a scary feeling When you feel like you don’t know who you are 😭 i literally am just petrified of completely losing sense of who i am and doing something bad and being locked away forever. Is it possible to just turn bad? Does anybody know what i mean by that? Like you secretly have a double ego and completely turn into somebody different? Does anyone else experience this? Is it ocd? I’m so scared i feel like i can never catch a break.
One of my main fears is thinking that I’m losing my mind or losing touch with reality. It sometimes make me feel so fearful , especially in the morning when I’m first waking up. But yesterday I kind of freaked myself out because I developed a new fear that I would look at someone’s face and not recognize them. So like always I went online and researched and found out some people suffer from not recognizing people’s faces , even if it’s someone they know. Now I’ve been sitting here for hours with my mind telling me what if this is happening to me? In my mind I know I’m not but my mind keeps telling me maybe you are. What if you’re out in public and you just freak out. It’s so irrational but it feels so scary. Has anyone ever had this feeling or fear. It almost makes me scared to look people in their faces. 😥
Does anyone ever have moments where they try to take a step back from their themes and don’t even recognize who they are when they are in their fear cycle? For example I’ll have moments where I notice I’m obsessing over something irrational and I’ll notice that and then I’m the very next moment I’ll fall right back in trying to find certainty… Just curious if anyone else relates 😎
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