- Date posted
- 40w ago
Intrusive thoughts are relentless
Pleaseeeee Lord make this stop
Pleaseeeee Lord make this stop
I don't know if this will be helpful or not. But I sort of had the epiphany that I can treat the intrusive thoughts like I do a really realistic bad dream. Like those dreams are the WORST, but I am able to downplay how real they felt. Your intrusive thoughts are not real, they do not define you. You can't keep a bird from flying over your head, but you can keep it from making a nest.
U not alone just woke up and devastating to feel this way
The only damage those thoughts will do is to our own well-being. The bad things the thoughts suggest are just something we do to torment ourselves due to our OCD. I wonder what causes our OCD to effect us this way.
How long does it take for the intrusive thoughts to go away
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? 😅
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?
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