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- 3y
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- 3y
@KEW915 i see so it feels like you think that even tho you dont think that all just because you thinking about not thinking thatđ© what a head spin. I believe its the same with feelings like if you think about feeling a way towards something ocd makes you think thise are your feelings although they are not its all just just the thoughts of feeling a certain way. Like i said what a headspin đ©đ©
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- 3y
Yes! I figured that out through sally winstons book âovercoming intrusive thoughtsâ .. they used an example of something so normal, a carrot. They told people NOT to think about a carrot and set a timer for five minutes . Another group of people were told to think about a carrot. The group that were told NOT to think of the đ„ did MANY more times. I was facing this during romantic time with my Bf, because I didnât want intrusive thoughts to interrupt the time so so much that of course, sometimes they would. Now Iâve refocused to welcoming all thoughts and noticing the sensations around me and intimacy is going a million times better for me mentally
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- 3y
@Desperate ocdđ„ș Sure whatâs up?
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- 3y
Yes it can! There was an experiment known as the white bear experiment, where the subjects were told to think and talk about whatever they wanted, but the only exception was not to mention a white bear, however subjects mentioned the white bear over and over, as it got stuck in their head. Itâs very hard to not think about something if youâre fearing thinking it
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- 21w
Does anyone else ever feel like this? When you're having a good day without a lot of fear after having multiple days of fear, you start worrying that your good day will be ruined by fear again. It's like anticipatory fear. Anyone else get this? I hate it but I don't know how to make it stop
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- 20w
Thereâs something that happens that keeps me stuck in a thought, itâs when I can see some part of myself agreeing with or relating to it in some way. Thatâs when the doubt creeps in. If I can understand *why* the thought is there, doesnât that mean itâs not just random? Doesnât that mean it actually reflects something about me? For example **(TMI/TW)**: I had the thought, *âI wonder what other peopleâs kinks are (including friends, family, even teenagers).â* And then I caught myself thinking, *âWell, I guess that could be interesting information⊠maybe I wouldnât even stop someone from sharing it with me. Does that mean I actually want to know? Waitâdoes that make me perverted or incestuous for even having this curiosity?â* The same thing has happened with other thoughts, like wondering what someoneâs privates might look like. I recognize that, on some level, that could be interestingâbut does that mean the thought is truly mine? Maybe the answer is super obvious and I just canât see through my OCD smoke. This was a bit embarrassing for me to write đ„Č, but can anyone provide some insight?
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- 15w
Ii spoke w my bf this weekend and he mentioned that he has thoughts just like me, but his don't bother him like me. I then felt a lot better and he tried dissecting one of his thoughts like I usually do and realized it felt more real for him after. That made me realize that none of my thoughts were ever true and I blew them up. However, yesterday I had a thought ab âwait wut if you liked that one guy? How dare you bc youre supposed to love your bf and not secretly like someone elseâ and treated it as I usually did bc I accidentally wanted to see if it was true but didn't rlly but I would check to see if it was there and now that thought feels so so so real now and I feel really bad how do Ik it's not real? I feel so bad and guilty bc lividly this makes 0 sense but it feels so prominent. It felt pretty real when it happened yesterday too. And now I feel awful bc how is it possible after my clarity the other day? Why does it feel so prominent đđđ
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