Does anyone else feel scared to be around item that interfere with your thoughts? like with my OCD when a thought like “what is i stab someone” comes into my head i can’t be around knives, if they are out i have to put them away and hide them. i get so scared if my thoughts becoming reality so i have to distance myself
It's the "putting away" that make you scared. You have to stay with the fear and let the knives be there. Search therapy if possible!
ERP therapy could help with this. A thought is just a thought. It does not mean anything
I used to have this too. I would avoid going into my kitchen bc I was so scared of seeing knives - but this didn’t stop the thoughts or anxiety. Facing it was the only thing that helped. It’s definitely hard and OCD will throw many thoughts at you, but they’re just words in your mind. It can’t actually make you do anything, even though OCD will doubt that too.
This used to happen to me all the time. Exposure was the only thing that helped. If I was ever washing up id do it as quickly as possible just to get them out the way and i used to just dread cooking and going into the kitchen altogether just because there was a knife block in there. I still get the intrusive thoughts/unwanted urges and it's so annoying but we know its the OCD.
Okay so i’ve had harmful thoughts about my boyfriend for some time now and i know that i don’t want to hurt him in any way but when i get an intrusive thought sometimes, it seems like im happy. i know that im not and when this happens i get so anxious and want to throw up because wtf i don’t want to hurt anyone. does anyone else experience this?
I have been dealing with intrusive thoughts for a long time, and while most of them don’t affect me anymore, there are ones that really concern me and make me feel panic. They make me feel like I could actually act on the intrusive thought and I’m just holding myself back from it. It’s really scary and I don’t know who I am anymore.
The other day I was with my mom and I had these intense urge to do this horrible thought, and a knife was in the table and I grabbed it but I grabbed it knowing that I know I was not capable of doing it and I put in the sink, I had to grab it in order for me to stop the “urge” that I was having. I love this women with all my life she’s been my inspiration to keep going forward, but ocd is telling me that I grabbed the knife because I actually wanted to do it. I don’t know if what I did was ok or not, or if I’m actually dangerous.
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