EXTREME OCD

X I really need some help. I have been having extreme OCD lately. It's so bad that I constantly think about the smallest and most insignificant things. I have intrusive thoughts constantly and I feel like if I don't think the right thing when I'm doing something I have to do it over. For example, if I throw something in the trash and a bad thought pops into my head, I feel like I need to dig whatever it was out of the trash and keep repeating until I have the correct thoughts. It sounds so stupid I know, and my mom has caught me digging in the trash wondering what the hell I'm doing. I try to ignore it, but the more I sit the more it nags at me and I feel like something really bad will happen if I don't repeat whatever I just did with a good thought. The only reason I'm posting this here is because I believe in law of attraction and I'm afraid these bad thoughts will manifest if I don't redo whatever I just did. What can I do? It's gotten to the point where I've stopped throwing things away because I can't get it right. Please help.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Stick a popsicle up your ass til it feels right.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hey OP, I have OCD. Mine was extreme before and also involved thinking the right thoughts and testing my thoughts to make sure I really had the right ones. It sucked.

    Law of Attraction is poisonous for you if you have OCD. Living by the LoA is actually an OCD symptom called "thought-action fusion." I've gotten scared for the same reason. I actually have this habit of fantasizing about telling people that my fear has happened; I think it's because it helps me "come to terms" with it possibly coming true. And then I worry that I'm going to manifest it by doing that.

    What I've started to tell myself is that LoA only works if you believe in it, right? So behave like it isn't real and it won't. So the next time you have an OCD thought, don't push it away for the sake of LoA, because that's affirming LoA exists. Let yourself think it. That's what you're supposed to do to help your OCD anyway, as long as it doesn't turn into rumination and worrying about the future (which it often does; you have to learn to find the middle ground).

    You can handle it. I've made huge improvements in my OCD. Go intentionally throw something in the trash while thinking the wrong thing, live through a day of being terrified, and then it will never be so bad again.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wow, that makes alot of sense. Thanks so much. My bad thoughts are like the house catching on fire or being in a car wreck. Things that I know sound absolutely ridiculous to anyone who has never experienced it. I've been on antidepressants for years and I'll have spells where the OCD gets bad and then it gets better. This is one of the worst spells I've had in a long time.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >intrusive thoughts constantly
    This never happened until a couple years ago. They're always negative.
    >I feel like something really bad will happen if I don't repeat whatever I just did with a good thought
    >with a good thought
    Yes, but usually without this part. It just feels like it wasn't done "right." And if it isn't done right something bad will happen. The bad is usually ambiguous unless there's some current thing I am hopeful or worried about.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

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  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You have to train yourself to think of the bad thoughts as good thoughts. Getting over OCD is all about getting your brain to accept it's creative wiring. Technically you are letting the bad thoughts control you. You aren't creating positivity, you are creating negativity. So instead give in to the negative thoughts and affirm them as correct. Eventually this will start to cancel out and you won't feel the need to respond to them.

    tl;dr label the bad thoughts as good thoughts and do not perform actions based on thoughts, perform them based on functions.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >give in to the negative thoughts and affirm them as correct
      Wouldn't that just be agreeing with the negative thoughts that something bad will happen if you don't do what they want?
      >label the bad thoughts as good thoughts
      But the bad thoughts are telling you something bad will happen if you don't throw away the trash again. I don't see how to label them as positive.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    OCD has gotten worse for all of us sufferers over the last two years. However you feel about the pandemic, OCD sufferers "depend" on a world that is not acting like us to feel better. Now that everybody is confused, and all of humanity seems to have strange new rituals, its really ticking OCD sufferers badly. Stay strong and we'll make it through.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      OP I had really bad OCD in my childhood up until I was 16. I still have it now at the age of 22 but it's considerably less abrasive than it once was. If you look at some /x Archives, there have been alot of help in threads. I posted how I got out of it in a thread too. But to put it simply, you have to NOT give a frick. I know its easier said than done (I really know) but its the only way. You have to notice what triggers you and not do that. For example, For myself, I would notice being in a FOMO state would cause a relapse of negative thoughts ie that "everyone is doing something and i'm here doing nothing" etc. As states, the pandemic really caused a lot of people to have issues.

      As anon

      Hey OP, I have OCD. Mine was extreme before and also involved thinking the right thoughts and testing my thoughts to make sure I really had the right ones. It sucked.

      Law of Attraction is poisonous for you if you have OCD. Living by the LoA is actually an OCD symptom called "thought-action fusion." I've gotten scared for the same reason. I actually have this habit of fantasizing about telling people that my fear has happened; I think it's because it helps me "come to terms" with it possibly coming true. And then I worry that I'm going to manifest it by doing that.

      What I've started to tell myself is that LoA only works if you believe in it, right? So behave like it isn't real and it won't. So the next time you have an OCD thought, don't push it away for the sake of LoA, because that's affirming LoA exists. Let yourself think it. That's what you're supposed to do to help your OCD anyway, as long as it doesn't turn into rumination and worrying about the future (which it often does; you have to learn to find the middle ground).

      You can handle it. I've made huge improvements in my OCD. Go intentionally throw something in the trash while thinking the wrong thing, live through a day of being terrified, and then it will never be so bad again.

      states also, it can be bad for LoA but you have to shut down the negative thoughts when you think of them. One way of doing this is to shout "NO" in your head and it will not manifest.

      Unfortunately after a bad breakup i started to get my ticks again. that "i must touch something 3 times otherwise something bad will happen" needs to stop. I wish everyone you success OP in your endevours and hope you get better soon. Likewise for people in this thread.

      Have a mantra of "everything is good" and it will be so.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Have a mantra of "everything is good" and it will be so.
        Especially this. Please hear this anon out.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the pandemic really caused a lot of people to have issues.
        They were barely hanging on before. No one wants to have a laugh at how stupid the thoughts are, see that the anxiety is separate and the thoughts are a shitty coping mechanism that doesn't work AT ALL, and just accept it and ride it out because...it sucks. They're afraid to feel even though all they do is cause themselves suffering by running from pain.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What can I do?
    You need to face the part of your mind playing you traitor, and overcome it in a battle of wills. Something is feeding on you. The thoughts controlling you are not your thoughts. Not really. It's difficult to face that we're not alone, let alone that some of what's out there are predators on a scale beyond human understanding. Face them knowing that despite their lies and their tricks, you have the upper hand. Just really truly ask yourself who is concerned about how you manifest your will? What sort of being has mankind described across the entire planet for his entire history that plays mind games with people because it preys on the energy they catalyze? Answer that question, face that which should not be, and emerge victorious over it.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You should practice meditation.

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