Aguero9320

Thanks for your'e reply and advice!, i will take it on board, i do find acceptance is the key and feel a lot better when i do so (still very hard) but i understand its not going to change overnight. I am currently awaiting an appointment re-guarding CBT

hello, new here. I have an phobia of certain body hair, i have weird intrusive thoughts based off this but could be other things aswell, it is hard however i am starting to accept these unwanted thoughts. It can be really distressing and can make me feel physically sick. i also say to myself "am i doing doing things differently because of these thoughts" makes me ruminate on the subject and can remind me to go and do something which really scares me. for example, "am i going to the gym today" "did i just think about that because of these thoughts" - start to ruminate on the thoughts (makes me think about the gym and what im going to do there etc) and now feel like im doing these things because i ruminated on these disgusting thoughts. is this normal?