- Username
- chloexo
- Date posted
- 35w ago
Intrusive thoughts
Does anyone know how to approach/handle intrusive thoughts without just suppressing them? They make me feel guilty even though they’re not my thoughts
Does anyone know how to approach/handle intrusive thoughts without just suppressing them? They make me feel guilty even though they’re not my thoughts
Acknowledge the thought and keep on moving on with your day without rumination ( and that’s not easy). Sit with the maybe or maybe not be true even though you may know the truth sitting with that uncertainty helps
You are welcome, we care because we been there. Hang in there it does get better ❤️🩹
We all experience intrusive thoughts, I try to think of them as a computer virus. You would not blame a computer for having a virus. You can’t control what thoughts pops in your head. There is no need for guilt because you are not responsible for them. Try using a phrase like here comes the _____ cross wires , bananas, bugs, whatever. Just don’t associate them with you . You are so right “ they’re not your thoughts “. 👍
Thank you to both of you, ur helps a lot :) After having CBT therapy for intrusive thoughts before, it helped but it’s just so hard carrying on the exposure technique in your day to day life, you so easily want to just give in n say stuff to yourself like ‘I DONT WANT THAT THOUGHT’ or ‘THATS NOT MY THOUGHT’ but like I have been told in the past by the therapist, that’s just feeding into it and OCD THRIVES on you worrying about it n stressing about it. It’s such a difficult thing to live with. It makes me wonder what I’d be like without OCD n if I’d feel much more free :(
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.
I don’t really wanna go into detail about what it’s about cause I feel like it’s super embarrassing, but there’s this one specific type of intrusive thought I get that I struggle extremely with ignoring/sitting in discomfort with. Does anyone have tips for managing something like this?
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond