i was at a rehearsal yesterday and i got super afraid of hurting someone for no reason. i wish i could tell someone, but i don’t know how to get them to understand that i don’t want to and i truly won’t? it’s really scary and i can’t really isolate because i’m around other people. instead i just start feeling terribly icky, if you know what mean. like my own skin shouldn’t be touching me. i feel horrible for thinking about any of it.
You are not your thoughts. This is ocd and those thoughts are meaningless.
@OCDFamily thank you, i think i have a new affirmation😊
Hold on. I am right with you. I am determined to treat myself really well when these thoughts try to overtake me. I refuse to identify with this. I would never hurt anyone and have no desire to. I think God lead thoughts. I have the mind of Christ...his feelings...his thoughts and the inclinations of His heart! Hang in there. Those thoughts or urges are not who you are!
@Vonnie54 From one Christian to another: so you think God is giving us the harm thoughts?
@elliss2 Oh absolutely not!! This response was one I speak over myself and declare over my mind to battle the OCD! I am saying that instead of those thoughts I align myself the thoughts of God!! Sorry if anyone misunderstood. I would never accept identity with thoughts of harm or toxic thoughts let alone blaspheme our Lord and accuse Him of such things! I apologize to anyone I may have offended or confused.
@Vonnie54 Hi! Sorry from my side as well! To be honest I was a bit curious and I was confused (a bit in a fight mode) and I thought „I’ve never seen that, let’s see how this person will react🙈“ You know it’s just so difficult sometimes, but God sees it all. That is the good thing in this that is so precious with God. He knows of our struggles. So sorry from me as well, and I hope you have a good week!
Recently I’ve been having scary intrusive thoughts about hurting myself or others. I’m so scared, what do I do?? I wouldn’t hurt a fly.
I was having a really good day at work and then all of a sudden, I realize that my harm OCD wasn’t there and then that reminded my brain to think about all these horrible things. I’ve been having really bad intrusive thoughts about wanting to hurt people or the fear of doing these things and I caught myself ruminating on things like oh well did this movie make me feel uncomfortable so I can reassure myself that I don’t wanna do these things and it’s just that fear like that I’m gonna wanna do it and it’s not even people that I’m close to. It’s literally anyone it could be like a random stranger thing about these things cause I know that’s a compulsion. So I thought I would put a message out to see if anyone could relate or has any advice.
im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.
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