- Date posted
- 1y
Ocd / pocd
What do you guys do to distract yourselves from having intrusive thoughts and images? help please.
What do you guys do to distract yourselves from having intrusive thoughts and images? help please.
You need to accept that the thoughts are there. If you give them power over you it will only make it worse. Yes you might be the thing you are scared of, but that’s just a thought. Just because you think it could happen, doesn’t mean it will
This is a great time to actually use this as an exposure! Do not distract, let the thoughts be thoughts and continue on with whatever you need to do! I’m dealing with something literally right now as we speak that I can relate but need to be stronger!
You got this!*
I will add pull yourself into reality by noticing your environment. Let all the thoughts and feelings come and go but be present in what is really going on.
You got me this!
I fidget!
Please do a blood test to see if you have MTHFR (Methyl Tetra Hydra Folate Reductase), it’s a process where we don’t absorb B12 and Folate like we should (and maybe even B6) Start taking methyl-cobalmin, and methyl folate, and B6. If you still have a lot of problems start getting B12 shots, either Methyl B12 or Hydroxy B12,if you can’t get your regular doctor to do the shots go to a Naturopath that will do B12 shots. God Bless
@Anonymous Seeking Health has some good Methyl-Cobalmin and Hydroxy-Cobalmin tablets. Also Methyl Folate.
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with intrusive thoughts&images. At first i had intrusive thoughts around my partner, now it’s centred around me & I can’t be around window ledges or medication due to a story I read online(it’s too triggering for me) . Sometimes I feel like I can’t leave my bed due to the thoughts being so overwhelming I just break down and want to sleep. I aren’t taking any medication or therapy yet. I worry that if I don’t give my thoughts a reaction that my thoughts are true and not OCD. I’ve had these thoughts 24/7 for 2 months.
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
I’ve been feeling the urge to avoid intimacy or purposefully engage (for reassurance that I won’t give into a compulsion) because of intrusive thoughts and fear that I’ll “check/test” my reactions. My OCD is making me so scared that I’ll purposefully think of a child and try to see if I like it. It’s so complicated but I guess I’m mentally checking if I would mentally check during intimacy. I’ve even envisioned myself checking and it’s making me so nauseous. I know it’s a compulsion like any other but the sound of “touching yourself to the thought of a child” sounds atrocious and vile. I’m terrified I’ll automatically start checking next time I am being intimate. I truly feel so worried. If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d appreciate hearing your experience. Or if anyone has any advice?
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