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Guest CB617

Hello everyone.

From my understanding of OCD the Intrusive Thoughts can be anything

and unique of the individual, it cuases them anxiety and causes them

to carry out compulsions.

I am just interested to know what Intrusive thoughts other people on

here have, just out of curiosity.

I know many people have thoughts about hurting someone or having sex with someone

for example, but other thoughts do people have and what compulsions do you carry out?

All the best

CB.

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Guest ihaveocd23

I have thoughts mainly about harming people I check to make sure I haven't. Acceptance is a big thing at first I couldn't accept I even had ocd. I have had many types of ocd over the years and it comes and goes its not easy, I find getting enough sleep and exercise can help a lot.

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Guest CB617

I understand thank you. It comes and goes which is hard when it comes back it makes

you more upset and depressed and you know lifes great without it.

Thanks for commenting.

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Mine is to wish bad things on people...drives me crazy...hoping people die of cancer,( i'll even name them in my head)....I i see a pregnant woman the thought ( I hope she miscarrages) comes straight on my mind....same with blind people........i was NEVER like this before ocd....i had it slight as a kid but it seemed too have disappeared in my teenage years...
the worst part for me is too know some of my thoughts will come true...i have had mental pictures of my family members in a coffin....and what makes it worse is it will happen....I have learned over the yeaars that even that is JUST thoughts.....which really helps....

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Guest picadiddly

My boyfriend has ocd and has thoughts of me cheating etc please does anyone else with ocd get these thoughts? Iv read up on a few and it does seem a few people get these kind of thoughts, im just trying to get advice so i understand more! This is killing me, and more importantly our relationship.. he will think these thoughts then not speak to me etc, saying he cant do this anymore please help

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Guest yinyang

Mine are harm thoughts. Generally flashing images of hurting somebody or my inner voice telling me to do them. Usually about people I love, its crippling. I get thoughts like Tulsa's too. like if for example I hear on the news of something tragic I think "good" or "they deserve it". My main compulsions are mental. I will repeat a phrase over and over in my head. Like "commit suicide" or an image of stabbing myself. It somehow helps me to try "neutralise" the thoughts of harming other people. I also do a lot of checking/doubting too but that's more of an inconvenience. This probably sounds extreme or maybe it doesn't I'm not sure!

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No way is it extreme... That's me all over... If I have a horrible thought about a certain member of my family then I have think of the same horrible thought about another member to " even" it up.....

My inner voice seems to drown out everything around me..... And it's always bad... Never positive...

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Guest itsnotmeitsmyocd

:original: for me, on day's like today (rough ones) it would be easier to write down the few thoughts that were not intrusive! :lol:

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Guest yinyang

Mine quite often last all day. Until I sleep then ahhhh a few hours relief! Yeah never positive is it, why not a happy thought compulsion

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I have soooo many, my biggest ones are of setting something on fire..usually with a discarded cigarette or by leaving the iron plugged in or the cooker on etc. Then i have the obsessions about whether I have said the wrong thing, I can go over and over things continuously in my head looking for something wrong. Cancer, death, getting hurt, hurting others, running people over etc etc. and finally that i dont have ocd!! hope i havent spiked anyone there.

bex xx

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Guest vamperella273

Mine is sexual acts that I don't want to do. Repeats in my head. Had them since I was a kid makes me very sad often thought of killing myself :(

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Guest dimmerswitch

Remember, you will never act on your thoughts, they are just thoughts. Try to stay positive and allow the thoughts to just drift into your head. Don't challenge them, just acknowledge the thought, and it will move on to another one, and another.......

Another method is to repeat the thought over and over in your head until it's meaning is diluted. It almost gets boring repeating it, but it does work.

This method might not be for everyone, but it really does work. At first you feel odd repeating an intrusive thought, but after a while it gets so boring, you just stop.

I struggle daily. My loved ones, this forum and the wonderful people who contribute and offer support help get me through. :D

CBT says we latch onto, and give the thoughts so much time and effort because they are so at the other end of the spectrum of who we are.

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Guest yinyang

Don't be sad we are here for you :-) I also count my gulps when I'm drinking something. What's that all about!? Actually thinking about it I have a lot more compulsions than I realised

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Guest Elle Belle

1. Harming people/animals (pushing them under trains or hitting them with heavy objects.)

2. Harming myself (jumping under trains etc. had to hide scissors from myself when I was a teenager)

3. Molesting people any time it would be inappropriate to (which let's face it, is all the time - but particularly bad thoughts are colleagues in meetings, vulnerable people and children)

4. Thinking bad thoughts about people could make them come true (so I have to shake my head to 'undo' them and tell God I didn't mean it)

5. Blurting out something wildly inappropriate/rude/insulting

6. Texting or emailing something wildly inappropriate/rude/insulting

7. Being morally contaminated by certain things (foods, the sight of meat, the wrong soap, a criminal on TV, a newspaper, medicine, certain numbers) - this is my worst one at the moment

8. That I've passed on the moral contamination to people and they will become bad or have some bad luck (so I apologise inwardly)

9. That I'm the Virgin Mary pregnant with the second coming of Christ and nobody will believe me (that was when I was a teenager!)

10. That I'll be accused of a crime I didn't commit

11. That there's something pornographic on my phone/laptop/camera and I've forgotten

12. That I've left the oven on/door unlocked/iron plugged in

13. That something will happen to my granny

14. That I might do something to horribly embarrass myself (take off my clothes at work or wet myself for example)

15. That I'll say something in my sleep which incriminates me or somebody else (used to have a fear I'd accidentally accuse my parents of child abuse and get them in trouble and they'd never forgive me and I'd never see them again)

16. That people will die

17. That I'm 'morphing' into a different person...........................................

There are loads more.

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Wow Elle Belle you summed me up to a T there. Although I must admit I've not put all these thoughts down to OCD but I guess they are! Suppose I can stop obsessing that I'm a fraud about my OCD for about 20 minutes lol

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Guest Elle Belle

Wow Elle Belle you summed me up to a T there. Although I must admit I've not put all these thoughts down to OCD but I guess they are! Suppose I can stop obsessing that I'm a fraud about my OCD for about 20 minutes lol

Oh and that's another one:

That I don't have OCD. Snap x

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Guest ihaveocd23

reading everyone's posts makes me see how i have a lot in common with regards to obsessions and peoples thinking habits. Before i used to think i must be the only person who gets these thoughts, i am evil and am not worthy of being alive, but accepting i have a disorder definitely helps me to cope more and seeing i am not alone.

Ashleigh

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Guest irretractable

Glad this thread got reactivated. It's helpful to read other peoples' thoughts. Some of mine are:

1. I don't have OCD, and I've constructed all my symptoms in order to be close to people (e.g. my therapist) or as an excuse for my perceived failings.

2. Sexual thoughts/feelings towards inappropriate people.

3. I have poor boundaries and am somehow acting unethically or inappropriately towards my patients.

4. I am committing insurance fraud.

5. I will do something to get in trouble at work.

6. I am dressed inappropriately, e.g. in a slutty manner at work.

7. I look weird.

8. I am relating to other people in a weird, inappropriate manner.

9. I have said something horribly weird or offensive in a conversation with someone.

My compulsions involve checking to be sure I didn't do something wrong, checking in the mirror, or replaying conversations or actions, etc.

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