How do you stop constantly checking/scanning your brain for thoughts! It’s my biggest compulsion and it’s getting me so down because I do not want these thoughts but I can’t seems to physically stop checking they are there which then greats even more!!!
You just sort of have to try to re-focus your attention to your current task. You can also use thought diffusion techniques to try to “slow” the thoughts down so it doesn’t feel as much of a tornado in your brain.
@nightfairy Thank you I will try i find it sooo hard to be present im constantly just living in my own head and just in autopilot 😩
@Liv24 SAME! Biggest compulsion for me as well. I legit just posted about how do I think any other thoughts other than these?!
I recommend if you can try a hobby that takes a lot of brain power so that it is hard to have the ocd thoughts as your brain is already thinking hard on something else.Sometimes that works for me but sometimes I still can not stop from thinking about my ocd thoughts.
@Brooke cookie Thank you! It’s very hard I try reading, drawing, walking, calling a friend and I still find myself checking for thoughts it’s like I want to torture myself!!!!!!
Some people have had success with DBT . Using mindfulness on the thought processes . It’s helped me before . It takes practice .
@Anonymous I will look into this thank you!! I downloaded the calm app for mindfulness so I will continue with this to Hopfully it helps!
Hello, it’s been some time since I’ve been on this platform but I’m not sure where else I feel safe to talk about this. Every minute of every day, I have the most horrible intrusive thoughts imaginable and I am constantly disturbed and horrified with both these thoughts and myself. I understand that these thoughts don’t define who we are, but it constantly raises the moral questions of if my brain is capable of conjuring these thoughts, even if involuntarily, then what does that say about who I am. The only solace I have is that I’m always disgusted with these thoughts but I’m constantly afraid of being some kind of monster because I have these thoughts and I feel like a terrible person for having these intrusive thoughts. I am in therapy and on medication, but neither are making this any easier, at least not yet. I don’t intend on stopping either nor have I felt any urge to actually carry out these thoughts, but they haunt me every minute of every day and I can’t stop them.
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.
Hello everyone. My name is Cathy and I have severe intrusive thoughts that seem to come out of no where. However only one thought at a time. I fixate on that scary thought for days and days and my anxiety builds up and up. I try to then attack the suggested catastrophic thought such I may have this disease or going to die from that disease or rot in hell etc. scary thoughts always. I try and do a ton of research on line to counter attack the thought trying to prove it wrong and this helps me but if I can’t find something that proves I won’t get the disease or have it already or prove other things too depending on what the thought is, it doesn’t help at all and can make it worse. Is anyone out there experiencing what I have. I don’t have ocd cleaning or washing or checking but have intrusive scary thoughts.
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