i like seeing this images in my head and im not sure what they are and im afraid im schizophrenic…they might be intrusive images but im not sure and its scaring me i want it to stop are they demons??
As silly as this sounds try to just accept that they’re happening. Don’t read into it, I know it’s hard cause it’s like “what the heck is going through my head, why am I thinking this” but it just adds to the loop. Intrusive thoughts and images are called intrusive because they aren’t you thinking these thoughts, they just pop up unwanted. It’s not a demon either!
@lbwocd thanks you so much 🙁
Like I have scary intrusive thoughts too like harm OCD and it’s incredibly difficult to just watch the thought appear but when it comes and I don’t pay attention to it, that’s usually the end of it. I’m sorry you’re dealing with it but it does get better! Try to look up ACT (Acceptance and commitment therapy) it has taught me so many skills to help me not get stuck in this loop 🫶🏼
Don’t worry I know it feels so real with OCD it’s about images and feelings! Don’t get destructed try to sit with thous images and let them know they don’t scare you!
@Jay🫶🏽 Thank you! 🙁🙁
@kksilly And please don’t do what I did DO NOT GOOGLE SYMPTOMS because it’s only going to make it worst!
They are scary! It's terrible. Sorry you are suffering from them. I try to brush them off and just say it's that bully ocd again. Otherwise, I'll drive myself nuts! Ugh...it stinks. See if you can just sit with it and say oh well, not sure what that is about but time to move on. I wish I had a magic wand and could make it go away!
also intrusive thoughts like “i will eat you?” guys what is this im really scared please help
someone please please help
im really scared im not sure what this is
I see dark intrusive images with my ocd it is sadly normal. I highly recommend looking up how to treat your OCD either with exposure response and or not doing compulsions so that you will not be triggered by these images anymore. It’ll take a lot of work and it’s really hard but you’ll feel a lot a relief.
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
Hi all, I’m really grateful for all the support I’ve gotten from people in the last few days. My mental health is at an all time low and I really appreciate the relief people have brought. I had a question about whether an intrusive image of a potentially imagined event can feel just as real as a real memory. I’m doing my best to stop ruminating over an image I have in my head, and have gone so far as requested security footage of myself and have been told both through that and by my friends that nothing bad happened, but the image in my head feels just as real as other memories. I was also drinking the night in question, which makes it harder for me to dismiss the image and makes me feel like I shouldn’t. I was just wondering if imagined images can feel just as real? I’m trying to use tools to ignore the image, and have therapy scheduled for tomorrow, but I feel like I can’t responsibly dismiss the image even with the evidence I’ve gathered if there’s something about a real memory that looks different in the brain and that if so, that suggests my memory is real and I should confess it. I’m really working on stopping reassurance seeking as well, especially now that even after being told that nothing bad happened when the establishment I was at reviewed security footage, my brain is telling me “they’re probably just lying and never reviewed it.” I know I need to just stop ruminating, reassurance seeking, and mentally checking the memory, but I just don’t know if I can/should in case the image is what I should trust more, if that makes sense.
Recently ive been getting very scared to even be angry bc of the horrible thoughts I have and it feels even more real when I'm angry or even annoyed. Rn I was not even super annoyed at my neice but I felt a twinge of annoyance since she went up to my face and was yelling at me while I was resting on the bed and I got this image of doing something bad to her and I felt my hand twitch very little. I got nervous and felt relieved when her dad told her to stop screaming for no reason. I've been hyperfocusing on my bodily reactions (mainly my hands or how I'm feeling like did I just enjoy that? Was I considering???) And I've noticed the small twitches whenever I'm mad or annoyed and it's scaring me so bad! Like do I want to act out? Am I holding back??? I used to not even twitch at all when mad and I felt 100% sure I'll never act out but now it feels like I don't know bc what do these twitches mean?, I do know I don't want to ever act out but it's so scary. Recently whenever I feel angry once the argument is over I cry really bad after I'm alone and I pray so i never want or act out. And when the annoyance passes I also feel so guilty and want to stay away. Im scared these are real urges and i research for many many hours to make sure they arent urges or impulses and i also tend to ask chatgpt or here if the anxiety gets so bad 😕
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