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To ask what intrusive thoughts you get?

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ObtrusiveIntrusuive · 27/02/2021 09:21

I'm pretty sure I have undiagnosed OCD, the pure O type. I'm having a flare up at the moment so thought I'd reach out try to talk about it here to stop myself spiralling into "I've lost the plot" territory as I know it's actually quite common Smile

Mine manifests itself as thoughts about harm mostly, for example if I'm at the train station 'my toddler could fall into the gap between the train and the platform' or if I'm crossing a bridge 'I would die if I jumped over this'

When my children were tiny I would get regular ones about dropping them.

I've had slightly less sinister ones too like envisioning myself throwing a drink over whoever I'm talking to.

What intrusive thoughts do you get?

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ThePontiacBandit · 27/02/2021 09:29

I get similar. Harm to DD. Harm to myself like fantasising about hurting myself, or imagining a car hitting me, falling down the stairs. Then weird ones, like throwing my phone places (there’s a beck in my village and I imagine chucking my phone in there a lot!) and the horrible ones like kicking people’s sticks away! (I would never ever do that but the thoughts come in my head).
I don’t have OCD but I am Autistic and have anxiety and this is how excessive anxiety manifests in me. One thing that has helped me in doing Mindfulness. I did Headspace and one thing that stuck with me is when he said “You aren’t defined by your thoughts”. Like the thoughts come and go but they don’t make me a horrible person. I don’t act on them. This has helped me just like them happen and let them go. I had counselling recently and now journal to counsel myself and it’s made me feel a lot better.

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