Chirpy

I there. I had my oldest 37 half years ago and I had also eat of weird and wonderful thoughts about him. I have relgious ocd so you can imagine what I was thinking about him but will not say as I don’t want to trigger you more. The reason I am telling you this is because he has now grown up into a wonderful man with his own family. I don’t get these thoughts any more and it will pass believe. Enjoy your children mthnking of you

Hi there Marie Jo. I too like you have suffered with this illness for over 40 years and at time is can be soul destroying. However I try to take one day at a time. I am lucky that I know by the end of the day I start to feel a lot brighter. I once have a CPNurse come and see me and she gave me some very good advice. She said if you can not bear of thought of a whole day a head of you then just take it in hours. I found this helped me a lot. one of my ocd themes is being afraid of things happening in the future and I will pick dates out. Now I have been doing this for years and not one date has come true, so you would think I have learnt from that but the ocd still goes on. I think we just have to live our lives as best as we can and hope that we will finally get on top of this illness. I try not to let it rule me. I rule it. I hope this has helped a bit. Imogen

Like polar bear said it is just ocd. None of us have magical powers and as you said at the beginning of this post you been doing magical cal thinking ocd. The fact that you see the slides is because your brain is bone looking for them. If a person said to you doing think about pink elephants, what are you going to start thinking about them. I deal with magical thinking all the time. I think about a date and then think something is going to happen on that date. I have been doing this for 40 years and you know what nothing has ever happened but My ocd brain say it may. So I get another date in my head. I have been struggling with it today but I try not to think too much and leave it alone and slowly it subsides. OCD is just a stupid illness that feeds on our fears. We have to face it head. I tell my ocd thought to F ——- off. It is a very hard illness to live with and some days are better than other but we can beat this. You can not made things happen just by thinking about it. So take a step back and see what ocd is all about. It has no power over us .ok

Hi there I have had my ocd for over 40years on and off. I have learnt to deal with the thoughts which are mainly around religion and to be truthful I am not really a religious person but I battle with these thought most days. At some point in the day I get so fed up with them that I tell them to just B--- off which does help and clears my mind. I find my thoughts are worse in the morning but by the time the evening comes I can think a lot clearer and hope that the next day I will not be back to square one. I know they are just thoughts and I can live a reasonable life but I just wish I could wake up one day and they not be there. Does any one else suffer from religious ocd as well. Also where does everyone come from. I live in berkshire and have done to the last 40 years when I came to do my nursing training . I work alot at my job as a nurse in a private clinic which helps as we can be very busy at time. I have a wonderful family and my hubby is quite supportive. I come to this site a lot but don,t normal write anything. hope you are all coping as best you can Chirpy.

I would be up for this.

Hi there DRS! I know this thought must have been unsettling but that is all it was a thought. It may have seems real at the time but no one can predict the future and I should know, my whole OCD centres round dates that I think something is going to happen to me or a loved one. I have had these thoughts for many years and do you know what, not one of them has come true, yet I still make dates in my head. It is only the ocd doing this to you. You have nothing to worry about. You can not predict your mums death or your own death. OCD is a horrible thing and it takes the things you love and uses them against you. Try not to obsess about it ( which is easier said than done ) and when the thought come just ok another ocd thought and get on with your life. You need to accept the thought for what it is just a thought. None of us can predict the future so try not to worry.

Thank you both for replying. I was beginning to think I was the only one with these thoughts. I believe like you that god knows me inside out and that these thoughts are my illness not me. This illness is horrible but we can beat it. Thank you again for your replys

Hi there. I have suffered with OCD thought on and off for over forty years now and my theme started when I read in a paper that a paedophil pretended to be the devil. Since then my ocd has been around dates I creat and think the devil is going to come after me. To be honest I am not an over religious person but I just can not stop thinking about this. Nothing has ever happened and in my own mind I know it won’t as I don’t actually believe in hell. However I do believe there is something after we die and I do believe in a sort of greater power and I feel he knows what I am going through. Just writing this is making me anxious but I need to get it out there. I know these are just thoughts and that thoughts can not make things happen. I thing I also have magic thinking ocd along with my religious ocd. Times I have thought will I go to hell when I die. I don’t think I am bad person but I do hate this illness. I also don’t like being on my own even though I am 60 years old but I make myself face My fears. I do try exposure but I really think I need some help with this. I have been on the same Ssri for over 22year now. does anyone relate to these sort of thoughts or am I unique in this. I know deep down this is all ocd and there have been times in myself when I have been feeling of thoughts. Any helpful advice would grateful received

I hate this illness as well. Some days I can really cope with it other days it’s just there all the time.

Me too. I am normally having a lovely dream with no ocd thoughts in it then I wake up back to the real world and the thoughts are here straight away. I have e this illness but to over come it you have to accept the thoughts for what they are. Just not important thoughts. Which is harder said then done.

Thank you Thomas it good to know I am not alone. I know it is nothing to be afraid of but just abit unsettling at the time.

Welcome to the forum. Are all hear to help each other. So need you need a chat just say.

That must have been quite frightening at the time. It’s amazing what medication and you brain can do. Glad you have improved

Thank you. You are right. I just need to let it go now. Seeing it normal helps a lots.

Has anyone ever had tricks played on by their mind. Thinking they saw something and they didn’t or waking up and thinking something is there. That happen to me this morning. I know it is just my silly mind but it has unsettled me. I will get over and I know I am not going mad. These things happen time to time with a lot of people. Just wanted to know if other have experience it

I know wanderer you go to bed thinking I have cracked this and then wake and they are there again

I know It is actually the same for me. I work a lot which help as I have to get up and get on with my work. I find it hard when I have a day off but as I said as the day goes on it gets better. I do practice mindfulness which helps a lot. Like you if I have nothing to do My mind get clogged with thoughts.

Hi there. Do many of you find that your ocd is worse in the mornings. I do and then as the day goes on I am able to cope with and normally by the evening I don’t have many.

I too have suffered from ocd for over 39 years now. I have up and down. This is a good place to come to get help

Yes I Anxious more in the morning but as the day goes on I my thoughts get less and so does anxious feelings

I sure will do polar bear

my ocd centres around dates and being on my own and thinking the devil is going to come and get me. I am not even religious but have had these problems thought for years and years. How ever I am so proud of myself today as I am on holiday with my hubby and daughter her hubby and our beautiful grand daughter. So the thing I am proud of is I let my daughter hubby her hubby go to the bar on the camp site to watch the England game and I looked after my wonderful granddaughter on my own in our lodge, which is a massive thing for me to do and I have enjoyed every minute of it. I get myself in such a state in the morning thinking about it but in the end it was brilliant. Polar bear I am facing my ocd face on. Doing the opposite to what my ocd wanted me to do and that wa to go with my family to the bar and avoid being on my own. I read a reply you posted to someone one here and I followed your advise thank you. I know I have a long way to go but it’s the first step of many.

This illness can make you feel very lonely. You are constantly igniting things off in your own mind. Mindfulness is good. A CPN nurse once sad to me just take it one hour at a time to f you can not face the day, that helped me.

Hi there I was just wondering if you find your ocd as gotten worse since lock down and this pandemic has started. I feel mine has but I am still coping ok. My problem is change and so nice we have started to come out of lock down. I did my really like to be on my own too much as my ocd thoughts are worse. My hubby belongs to a number of local concert bands and of course he hasn’t been going so we have spent our evening together. From next week he is going back to them and of course he should but I am obsessing about being on my own. I have a problem with dates and think some thing is going happen while I am on my own. Know this is irrational and once he starts going I will get ver this. I just hate this illness and just want to think normally. My ocd is s worse in the morning and get a lot better by the evening . Does you ocd react like this. Most of the time I cope very well and hold down a job. I just think this situation has made these worse. Thanks for listening

Thank you so much Belanne. I too not sure I believe or not. I think there is something but not sure what and I really don’t believe in the Devil, which makes these thoughts so ridicules. I think it is the unknown that cause my ocd thoughts and as you know ocd loves doubt. Yes being on my mind doesn’t help the thoughts at all but I can not be afraid all the time, that is why I face it. Like you being surround by family and friends does help but I sometimes feel they get a little fed up with it all. The sad part of all this ,is I have a lovely one year old grand daughter who I love to bits but because of my ocd I will not have her on my own over night as I feel something evil will happen when I have her, not caused by me but something else. I know this is irrational as well and I am missing out. I am going to face this fear head on soon and her her over night. I hate this illness sometimes but I could be a lot worse. I function well most of the time. I will take on board what you say about having breakfast. Thank you once again for replying. It means a lot Immy