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?
I don't know what to do anymore, the fear of psychosis and schizophrenia is so bad in so hyper aware of everything I hear and everything I see, I've always had eye floaters now I convince myself that it's really me hallucinating, I've always had tinnitus but now I'm convinced it means I'm going to go crazy soon, I can't sit in quiet because all I'm focusing on is what I'm hearing, and searching for any sounds I can't distinguish, when there's background noise I get so anxious if I think I heard something but im not sure I did or I'm just anxious, I'm terrified I'll start having delusions and sometimes my brain confuses some sounds for other sounds for example say I'm hyper focused and I breathe and my nose makes a whistling sound my mind interprets it as a scream and I freak out thinking I'm hallucinating only to focus closer and realize it's my own breathing, earlier I was so anxious that I couldnt tell if I had an intrusive thought or heard something, I don't know how to make it stop, I've been through this theme before I just forgot how hard it was I'm having a panic attack please help
i’m so scared im going to lose control and end up locked up or something. this is so exhausting!! i worry that what i have isn’t OCD and that im genuinely insane and im gonna end up in big trouble or that the urges i have are going to actually happen. i dont want to think these things ! i feel like a horrible human being!!
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