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I agree! Bc I’ll have a random intrusive thought pop in my head n if it involves harming someone I’ll play the scenario in my head. I’ll twll myself “well if it causes u distress but u don’t cry that means u wanna do it” :(
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Yeah I randomly started having terrible POCD intrusive thoughts and they make me absolutely sick. I feel like a terrible mom even though I know who I am and I know I would never ever want to harm my kids, my brain makes me check to make sure constantly. It comes from my childhood trauma I think. But I get the same terrible thoughts like “what if I really am a terrible person and this isn’t OCD” It’s the absolute worst 🙁
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feel this so much. ocd is so good at building mistrust in ourselves
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Thats exactly what I tell myself. N then if the thought keeps repeating in my head it makes me think I want to act on it😭 then I’m like “I don’t think this is OCD” wven tho deep down ik it is
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@Mama2324 Yes exactly it’s terrible 😣
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When I dove really hard into ERP in August, the first couple weeks I was making really big progress and I was really proud of myself. And thennnn once I started realizing my anxiety was going down but I was still having intrusive thoughts, I started to completely spiral out of control and my OCD was like “see!! I told you that you’re a monster and you really like the thoughts!! There is no help for you and you need to end it” and I felt the darkest I have ever felt during my decades long battle. That was back in August and I am happy to say today that I have a much better handle on things and I am continuing ERP every single day. OCD is a f***er and ERP is not easy and you are going to doubt yourself over and over again. Part of the ERP I do now is “yeah maybe I don’t have OCD maybe I do 🤷♀️” and sit with how uncomfortable and gross that feels while still showing your self compassion and acceptance. Literally the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my entire life. Sharing my story because I know how common it is to have these thoughts and these feelings about yourself and how dark and isolating and alone it feels. I promise you are not alone! And you are worthy.
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That sound like such hard work😔 I know unconditional acceptance helps to eliminate the fear but it’s so hard to accept some of these terrible thoughts it goes against everything I’ve ever known. This is the hardest struggle I have ever dealt with
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I believe you and I have been there and am even there currently. Every day is a battle when you have OCD. I don’t want to give you reassurance so I will just say that you are absolutely not alone
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I have this issue where I can vividly imagine hurting others or animals or say things OUTLOUD that may be disruptive or disrespectful becauss I am overstimulated by soemthing someone is doing or saying. So, Over stimulation with people and animals and things they do can be a big part of it, Sometimes I will see soemthing that bothers me about someone and I just want to either fix it or hit them because they make me so overstimulated I just want to hit the problem. I never act on these things obviously but SOMETIMES it leaks out and I hit my hands together to calm the urges. I really don’t like imagining hurting others but when I get mad I obsess over what I would or could do to them or might or would’ve in a situation in the past, had it planned out differently. I keep thinking about it and thinking about it and then get upset with myself because I know it’s wrong to be thinking about hurting others and it worries me I may someday act on something impulsive and harm someone. Sometimes I cry about it because I never want to hurt people. Really I don’t. Most of these thoughts happen in milliseconds and I have a second part in my brain like a THOUGHT processor/auto corrective thinking reminding me I can’t do that because it’s morally wrong and I am too good of a person to do that and there is nothing to stress over.
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I have ocd, i have crazy intrusive thoughts that make me super uncomfortable, the thing is i understand that ocd goes against your morals and try’s to make you feel like a bad person but how do i avoid pushing people away while trying to treat my ocd.. i love my boyfriend so so much but when i get intrusive thoughts about hurting his feelings or doing something terrible it scares me so bad that i’m scared to be around him because in my head it’s like “why am i even thinking of this if i love him so much” and i know i would never do anything to hurt him but i just feel terrible because he’s an amazing boyfriend and i have all these bad thoughts. :(
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so this all started not too long ago, for literally no reason at all. but one day i got a random intrusive thought about harming others and it freaked me out bad. since then i’ve been non stop focusing on it and im genuinely scared that i am, or gonna end up like those sick people that have documentaries about them. i’ve never had these types of thoughts before and after me and my mom looked a lot of stuff up we think i have OCD cuz a lot of the stuff it was saying was accurate to me. to anyone in here, does this sound like OCD to you? i’ve always been a nice loving person and these thoughts freak me out so bad and make me feel like i’m a bad gross person. it got to the point i don’t even like looking at myself anymore. i just wanna go back to normal man. another thing to add, when i would explain this to my mom even though i was telling the full truth on how crappy this made me feel it felt like i was lying almost? but i know i wasn’t deep down. i’m just scared that what if i act on something or get in my head too much you know?
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