If you suffer OCD, which of the symptoms bother you the most & how do you cope w!
Question: Mine is my unwanted, intrusive sex/violence thoughts-worrying a lot, compulsive overeating & shopping, & fear of dirt/germs. & I have unwanted imaginations about people I love being harmed, like beat up or in a car accident or something. I don't want to think these thoughts. I feel like my medicine isn't helping. I can't deal with this. It's depressing me & making me feel mentally cripple. I can't function well enough to go to school or work. The unwanted SEX thoughts bother me the most. I can't even read a book or listen to a song withouth the thoughts popping up. & the people I hate or who I'm angry with, their face is unwantedly pictured in my mind, & (I know it's not real but) it feels like they have AUTHORITY & CONTROL over my mind & thoughts. I can't control my thoughts at all. & with me having Tourette's, I find myself accidentallly blurting out the unwanted thoughts. Also, if you have unwanted thoughts, are they voices in your head, images, or both? Mine is both.
Answers: Mine is my unwanted, intrusive sex/violence thoughts-worrying a lot, compulsive overeating & shopping, & fear of dirt/germs. & I have unwanted imaginations about people I love being harmed, like beat up or in a car accident or something. I don't want to think these thoughts. I feel like my medicine isn't helping. I can't deal with this. It's depressing me & making me feel mentally cripple. I can't function well enough to go to school or work. The unwanted SEX thoughts bother me the most. I can't even read a book or listen to a song withouth the thoughts popping up. & the people I hate or who I'm angry with, their face is unwantedly pictured in my mind, & (I know it's not real but) it feels like they have AUTHORITY & CONTROL over my mind & thoughts. I can't control my thoughts at all. & with me having Tourette's, I find myself accidentallly blurting out the unwanted thoughts. Also, if you have unwanted thoughts, are they voices in your head, images, or both? Mine is both.
Did you grow up in a home that was particularly religious? Why is it that sex thoughts bother you? Try to ask yourself these questions.
It has been proven that the more you try to stop thinking of something, the more it "pops up" in your mind. Our first response in trying to stop intrusive thoughts is usually the very thing that reinforces the bad thought process in our brain.
I suggest that when you have a thought that is unacceptable to you, think of something else. I know it is easier said than done. Think of what you have going on inside your head as a "brain lock". The only way to open that "lock" is to automatically think of something else unrelated. Do not be judgmental of what is passing though your mind. Just be an observer of the things that "pop up". When you don't like what is going on in your thoughts just TURN THE PAGE and think of something else. This is something that takes much practice, but I trust that it will work for you. Hope that helps :)
It took me 7 year to get rid of the worst of my ocd habits , still got some I got help that how,and think before you do it,why are you doing it,and turn each one around little at a time ,but help is the best answer ,and no there are good therapist out there, and accept what you can't change
Do you see anyone maybe that can help you cope with this, like a counsler or something. I have bad OCD's but it consists of checking everything all the time, like doors, candles, stoves, hair dryers, toaster oven, pretty much everything. I have this whole ritual everytime I leave the house, its really bad and makes me late all the time. I do have bad thoughts from time to time like my family is unsafe or something bad might happen but its not too bad! I do not take any medicine at this time but it has crossed my mind. I would say try talking to someone about it, it may help.. good luck!
The thoughts of violence or sex with people I know or even just strangers is what bothers me most, then I have to do my "rules", my asking for forgiveness so that bad things won't happen. I know how crippling these thoughts can be. I'm on medication and it's gotten to the point where my doctor has told me that it's all up to me now, that medication can only do so much. All I can do is break through them on my own. God it sucks.
Ugh, I feel you on those unwanted thoughts! I don't get voices (sounds to me like that could be a different disorder, maybe part of the Tourrette's?), but I get the images, or sometimes just broken thought fragments.
Most of my OCD is my ticks and habits. Straightening things, ordering, reordering, arranging, rearranging, washing my hands a certain way, eating a certain way, everything has to be symmetrical at all times ... I even have to have the mouse pointer on my computer in a certain place depending on which program/website I have open. I can't function if things aren't put in the right order or the right place, or arranged the right way. And of course, it worsens with different emotions or different people I'm around. Mine has been getting worse anyway, and the medicine I took for a while made me feel weird.
Honestly? I don't cope. I just kinda got used to the way things are with me, and when the medicine I was prescribed hindered my creative process (I write fiction, so that was a HUGE problem for me), I just accepted that this is the way things are always gonna be. It's hard, and it sucks. But c'est la vie, no?
I can't have friends or familly in my home because I'm afraid of dirt. All my issues destroyed my only relationship two years ago, and I have not had a real boyfriend since. I am on SSRIs, but find my rituals to be very strong.
I have friends, but always go to their house. If I don't get this OCD ritual cracked, I will never, ever be able to have a normal relationship.
My ex went on and immediately found a wonderful girl and they are very happy.
While I do well with some things in life, I am truly sad with OCD.