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@KEW915 i see so it feels like you think that even tho you dont think that all just because you thinking about not thinking thatš© 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 š©š©
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- 4y
Yes! I figured that out through sally winstons book āovercoming intrusive thoughtsā .. 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 š„ did MANY more times. I was facing this during romantic time with my Bf, because I didnāt want intrusive thoughts to interrupt the time so so much that of course, sometimes they would. Now Iāve 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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- 4y
@Desperate ocdš„ŗ Sure whatās up?
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- 4y
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. Itās very hard to not think about something if youāre fearing thinking it
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- 24w
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 āwait wut if you liked that one guy? How dare you bc youre supposed to love your bf and not secretly like someone elseā 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 ššš
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- 23w
I feel like a lot of my fears are actually just centered around what other people think of me because I'm scared of being abandoned and no one loving me anymore. I don't actually feel like my fears are about being a good person. And then when I have this thought it makes me feel even worse because many people here genuinely seem to be scared of being a bad person. I feel like an actual bad person who's more concerned with appearances than anything else :(. I keep having these thoughts like what kind of person am I when I'm alone and with my thoughts. And then I get scared to be alone.
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- 17w
Does anyone ever feel like you know you have OCD, but at the same time you think it might actually be you connecting to a higher consciousness or vibration that is trying to control your decisions so that the outcome does not turn out bad kind of like the butterfly effect. It drives me crazy because I know Iām conscious that itās OCD but at the same time I overthink and feel like it might be a higher power trying to warn me that Iām not doing something right, like example; if I flip the trash can lid a couple more times itās going to pervert something bad from happening and that why Iām sensing Iām not doing it right, because if I spent a little more time there and if I would have left earlier the outcome wouldāve been different. Or say I just fight through it and choose to ignore it, but then Iāll carry that negativity/worry of not feeling like I did it right and will project it out into existence because the thought wonāt leave my head and in a way your seeking it out into existence since you keep thinking about it, kind of like an affirmation?
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