This one’s new for me but ocd is loving repeating a specific word right now out of the blue that sparks so much anxiety and makes my harm ocd act up too. I have a little complex mix of religious ocd and harm ocd. Anyone else know how to cope with word repetition.
Hopefully this helps somewhat. When my intrusive images come to mind, sometimes they’re repetitive and I’ll try and replace them with a more positive image. Sometimes that doesn’t help though, I’ll just sit and look at the image, feel that horrible feeling, accept that it’s upsetting and triggering, and then try and replace it with a positive image or healthy distraction.
@IWantToWakeUpNormal Anything helps! Sorry ocd is so cruel. Thank you, I’ll give this a try!
I used to have blasphemous words and sentences repeating themselves over and over and over and over in mind from the moment I woke up until I went to sleep. These sentences were always against God. Words just repeated in my head all day. I am a Christian, and my faith is the most important thing to me. OCD always attacks what we value the most; so in my case, it went after my faith. The worst thing you can do with repetitive thoughts is to try to fix them. The best solution is to just let them run around in your head and do whatever they want to do. My repetitive words/sentences didn’t go away until I let them run their course WITHOUT TRYING TO FIX THEM. You see, I used to try to put a “not” in my head against every evil sentence that kept repeating. I felt like this was somehow negating the bad thought. But it turned out that I was adding “not” fifty times a minute, a hundred times an hour—all day every day. I was so focused on adding “not”s to all repetitive words and sentences, that I was drowning inside my head. Repetitive words are just intrusive thoughts. And the solution to intrusive thoughts is to JUST LET THEM BE THERE. Don’t try to fight them or fix them. The more you fight or fuss or fix, the worse the repetitive thoughts get. Your job is let your thoughts do whatever they want, but then you have to deny yourself from performing any compulsions. (The compulsions are what we try to do to fix or mitigate the thoughts. This was me trying to add a “not” to every repetitive sentence.) You can torture yourself to death trying do fix repetitive thoughts. The answer is to just ignore them and live your life like you normally would. We can talk more if you want:):):) You’ve got this!
Repetitive thoughts were my bane for many years. So torturous. But they don’t have the power to hurt you. THEY REALLY DON’T MEAN ANYTHING!! They are meaningless and harmless. And you take away the power they think they have when you ignore them and don’t try to fix them or engage with them. The key to OCD treatment is this truth: You have to let the intrusive thoughts just run totally wild in your mind—without trying to fight turn or fix them. Anything we do to fix them is a compulsion.
@Tea and Honey Than you so much for this! 🤍 it’s been a really hard battle. The word is so unsettling that it just freaks me out. Goes against every Christian value I have. I had a talk with God and I told him that I was sorry about these thoughts. In the middle of my apology I felt so much grace and understanding. I know our God is fully aware of the battles we face and that he’s not going to condemn us for the things outside of our control. Thank you for replying I know being a Christian with ocd is so tough and not fair. Hang in there as you navigate your own journey and battles too ❤️🩹
@ Skyline 🕊️ Yes, God understands and loves you!
I’ve been trying to look for a Christian with ocd type of group but the ones I do find haven’t been any good. If you know of any let me know! I feel I may have to be starting my own soon.
@ Skyline 🕊️ Jaime Eckert runs a Christian group therapy (also support group on Zoom). It is awesome!! I’ve been a part of it for years. It was only $60 a month for me. Here’s her website. She also has a great blog. https://scrupulosity.com/?checkout_id=cd57e87d-b279-44a8-93a9-66a43d3cc836
@Tea and Honey Thank you I’ll look into it. OCD has made me completely isolate myself from social interaction and I know it would do me some good. I appreciate you. Hope your day goes well. 🤍
@ Skyline 🕊️ Yes, I have loved my group sessions with Jaime. Hope you have a great day too !!
I’m really struggling with something related to me ocd, and I would appreciate kind and supportive advice. If you can’t relate or don’t think anything you have to say would be helpful, I kindly ask pls refrain from commenting this is a really sensitive topic for me. Recently, I’ve noticed a pattern that feels something extremely new and distressing. The first time it happened I remember telling myself before self pleasuring that I am in control no matter what thought comes into my mind because I wanted to prove to myself that these thoughts are just from OCD and I know who I am and an intrusive that came out of no where, and i suddenly felt an intense fear that I was acting on it. In the moment I genuinely felt like I did. And afterword, I panicked and started questioning myself. This SAME FEELING has happened three times in a row each time, the intrusive thought was unwanted and random, and completely against my morals most recently it involved pocd and it feels even worse because it generally felt like I acted on it the thought in the moment while I was self pleasuring the panic doesn’t hit until afterwards when I stop :/ I start thinking that maybe I generally made a mistake and I’m now just realizing that it’s wrong because it generally feels like that :( but when I actually think about it again goes against my morals and values doesn’t make sense it feels incredibly real, and I can’t seem to shake this feeling off that I may have acted on it I’m terrified because I never wanted these thoughts in the first place. And I definitely didn’t choose them. If I had known, I would’ve had these intrusive thoughts I wouldn’t have self pleasured in the first place but it’s extremely hard to convince myself that this may be OCD because I feel like I have no other reason to believe that I didn’t act on it :/
Does anyone imagine they are doing their harm thoughts during an action, making you feel like you acted on your thoughts? For example, someone gave me a hug and at the last second I imagined I was touching something I shouldn’t during the hug? I want to make it clear it’s something I have zero desire to do! But the problem is, I thought it on purpose and it makes me sick !! Obviously nothing happened but my mind is telling me that was me trying to do it. Even though it was physically impossible to do. Am I a monster or could this be OCD? I’m freaking out and don’t want to be here anymore. I feel like I’m the exception and that this isn’t OCD. I know I post about this stuff a lot but I’m struggling and don’t know what to do.
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?
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