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ThomasOCD

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  1. I'm not going to agree on that one. Our primitive thalamus in the brain might see something sexual a start unwanted physical arousal, anxiety can be mistaken for arousal as well. I have nothing against people with different sexualities but people should stop making up sexual orientations. This can only make someone's OCD worse.
  2. Anxiety can be mistaken for sexual arousal in people with OCD.
  3. Same here, I'm attending CBT therapy and I put my logical and rational thinking before I start ruminating !
  4. @lonelygirl91 Here is a link that can help You. https://impulsetherapy.com/groinal-responses-in-ocd-what-they-are-and-why-they-happen/
  5. @Summer9173 Try Lexapro, I use 10mg of escitalopram ( name of lexapro in Poland and Iceland) which is two times stronger than zoloft, and it really helped me.
  6. When I was affraid of psychosis I used to react to everything that was in the corner of my eyes, it felt like flashes of hallucinations but it went away after my ocd theme changed. I also had pareidolia but my therapist told me it was because of anxiety. But some SSRI might have that side effect best to contact your psychiatrist, but I think it might be just anxiety. When you start taking SSRI your anxiety might get worse for a week or two but this is normal for most people. If you accept them they will probably go away. I stopped worrying and they went away.
  7. @northpaulHaving severe OCD, other mixed anxiety disorders and other mixed personality disorders, living sometimes is a living hell. It's sad to say but I think being on war would be better than living with these disorders. But living with these disorders is also a war.
  8. I live in Poland so the situation is really tense in here so this keeps me away from my ocd for some time. I have these thoughts that I would not mind if the war would come to us at least I would occupy my mind. So for me it's completly different. But maybe this because we are brought up this way in Poland and other Slavic countries such as Ukraine, to not fear the war and fight. So it really depends how you see the war. Best way is if You stop looking at this from a pacifist perspective. But also try not to look at current situation from warmongering point of view. UK is safe for sure.
  9. Hi, I have this question, Can you have anxiety and not be aware of it?
  10. I know that this dream happened because I was ruminating for few days and I'm affraid of this happening in my dreams so it clealry shows this is just ocd
  11. Because I was ruminating so much to make sure if I wasn't aroused for few days, suddenly I had a dream I was triggered, then suddenly I was having this wierd feelings towards this wierd person in my dream that I was lying next to and I thought is this arousal ? am I aroused? what if this is arousal? I can still recall this wierd feeling so this must mean this probably wasn't arousal, but groinal respponse with some wierd feeling. But my question is can some wierd feeling be confused with arousal ?
  12. I know but it's hard. I'm trying to feel good, I put on the music and Watch some pictures from the past and bad thoughts get into it. And the more anxiety I'm trying to feel ocd blocks the feeling
  13. Everytime I try to recall a memory or imagine something from the past intrusive thoughts get in the way, I have mixed feelings such as nostalgia to the memory and anxiety to intrusive thought. Or I get intrusive thought that reminds me of childhood memories so I get this mixed feelings. Sometimes when Intrusive thought appear in the memory the memory that supposed to be good tgives me anxiety.
  14. Hello everyone, I don't know how to react to intrusive thoughts. When I remind myself of some nostalgic memory intrusive thoughts get in to this memory. It feels like the memory is in the background and intrusive thought is at the front of me, but I do not feel anxety to these thoughts I feel the nostalgic memory, it's like a fusion of intrusive thoughts and memories and I get mixed feeligs. of good memory and discomfort. Should I not react to intrusive thoughts and focus on the memories ? even if the intrusive thoughts are in the way or in the memory ?
  15. Hello, can anyone help me with this one ? When I have sex or even alone time with myself I almost always have intrusive thoughts during climax, That’s why I hate it. Ocd takes away all the pleasure from it, last Time during climax I had thoughts about my friend and in the body obviously it felt nice it’s climax this is how body is supposed to feel and no one can stop it, but in my mind I felt bad, why do I have this thought right now. I tried not to react to it and this makes me feel even worse that I could not think of anything else. My anxiety is really high.
  16. Hello again, I have more questions about this topic, I have obsession about memory and bad thoughts. Why do bad thoughts bring good memories ? Is it normal to have a bad thought and this triggers a good feeling memory ? It feels like false attraction but with feelings. For example, I think of bad thought it brings good memories this gives me so much anxiety. it’s like feeling the good memory and the bad thought that is in the background is enoying because I don’t feel nothing to that thought only feeling of good memory. is this how I supposed to react to this thoughts ?
  17. I also have this theory that this thought is meaningless After being played in my mind everyday for 2 years, My brain now see this thought as sexual thought and thats it no emotions no feeling towards it, and I this reminds me of memories from holiday which feels intrusive to make me feel good and when I see this thought in the background I get mental discomfort but my body still feels the feeling from summer holiday, but feeling in my body and in my head are two different things, such as arousal noncordance where body gets aroused but mind says no
  18. @snowbear @Ma29 You guys are amazing ! So when I remind myself about my ocd traumatic event and at the same time I have memory of enjoyable summer holidayat the same time, I feel the summer holiday vibe but I don’t feel nothing to my traumatic thought that is there, and I link them together and this gives me anxiety?
  19. I also have similar problem, the thoughts that were giving me hard time now they don’t give me anxiety. I feel „allright” when I have these thoughts. Sometimes they even give me intrusive good memories
  20. What I mean is for example, let’s imagine you have a bad thought as a image such as having sex with your parent and you get intrusive memory about last summer holiday and this gives you good feeling but that image of having sex with parent is in the background of that memory and this doesn’t bother you, you have feelings about the memory not the bad thought. Is it normal ?
  21. Hello, I keep having this intrusive memories, when I tryby remember my traumatic event I’m suddenly flooded with intrusive good memories and feelings which causes more anxiety and depression. Why do I feel this ? Is this a defending mechanism from my brain or a part of intrusive memories ?
  22. Irritation, tension inside my head, hopelessness, mental discomfort, distress, anger
  23. Hello I have this problem, when I am seeing a hocd trigger that caused me to have unwanted orgasm (Groinal response) I feel no anxiety and I get intrusive thoughts about good memories which causes me to have mental pain. Is it normal to have to anxiety to a ocd trigger ?
  24. Hi, did anyone expirienced this as well ? What I mean is when I think of a person or a thing that caused me trauma or high anxiety suddenly my brain brings good memories to this bad thought. Is this a part of intrusive memories or brain’s defensive mechanism ?
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