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Are they really intrusive thoughts when I find myself not knowing and questioning if they really are?
Are they really intrusive thoughts when I find myself not knowing and questioning if they really are?
It’s very common for OCD to make you doubt whether something is intrusive or if it’s actually OCD related. Remember OCD is trying to make these thoughts as triggering as possible, so it will use any sort of doubt or reasoning to make you think these thoughts are a bigger deal than they are.
Yes. People without OCD do not interrogate their thoughts or feel anxious about them. It is very common for people with OCD to wonder “is this OCD or am I just in denial” which in itself is an OCD thought as people without OCD don’t think that.
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I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
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? 😅
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