Intrusive thoughts are unwanted and cause stress which mine do but also when I’m mad I get this rage feeling and say I wanna stab someone like that feels like a. Want not intrusive why am I saying “ I wanna “ :(
It’s not a want because you will go to prison for a long time also, you feel bad about these thoughts, I was a drug addict and I had those thoughts like almost trying to force me to do it, I get thoughts like what if I actually had done it :( I’m extremely upset I don’t want to have these thoughts anymore, turns out I didn’t do it but I still get those what if thoughts. And it scares me bad.
@Love 777 Me too !
For me, it helps to connect it to something I value. So like, my Harm OCD revolved around killing my pets for a while and I’d have intense images with it. It was horrible. A big thing that helped was realizing 1) it’s a fear — not a want and 2) it’s my mind’s way of reminding me how much I CARE about my pets and how empathetic I am. So now it’s easier to address the thoughts as they come. They’re rare now, so when they do pop up it’s just quickly being like “thank you mind for reminding me I value my little family so much and that I want to be such a great caretaker.”
These are normal intrusive thoughts. Here is the KEY. 🔑 You have to remember that the THOUGHTS DON’T MEAN ANYTHING. It doesn’t matter if those thoughts are in your head or not. When the thoughts come, tell yourself, “Yay, I’m having my stabbing thoughts again. These thoughts can stay all day if they want to.” Allowing the thoughts to run freely through your head is key 🔑!! Don’t try to fight them off. Just let the thoughts run. They don’t matter.
Is it possible that you make these posts about your specific thoughts as a confessing and reassurance-seeking compulsion? That sadly is gonna continue to make your OCD worse :(
@OneDayAtATimee Idk I just wanna feel like I’m not alone and tbh reassurance is the only reason I haven’t ended it yet
Feels like I wanna act on the thoughts I’m stressed out
Intrusive thoughts are supposed to be unwanted but when I’m mad I’m saying out loud “ I wanna stab them” and I feel rage. That doesn’t feel like ocd anymore I’m stressed and my brain also wants me to cover my dogs nose and suffocate him . I’ve covered it before and got anxiety and I’m scared I acted on an intrusive thought by doing that so I’m just psycho I guess about to snap
Anyone else have repeated thoughts that play that are negative. Basically a back and forth of you telling yourself you don't want X to happen but having a thought that slips saying you do. Like being stressed out one day and saying "man I wish I were dead". But instead of letting it roll through your mind and thinking nothing of it, you obsess if you actually want that outcome for yourself and you are now scared you'd fatally harm yourself whenever you feel anxious or stressed even though you know you wouldn't. So now I repeatedly get I wanna die stuck in my head and I feel the compulsive need to say no I don't to combat the thoughts and it happens throughout the day and even when I wake up.
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