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Topic Title: Pocd and scared.
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thereallysadone said 5 years ago:
Good day everyone, and happy Eastern
I’am a 13 year old male teenager.
I’m pretty sure I have pocd, I’ve been posting here about reassurance, and i’ve got positive answers, as is my current life, being very hard of pocd.
But… I wanted yo ask, is it normal to get flashes of disgusting images, and thei wouldn’t leave? They started to appear, mostly yesterday, and they ussualy appear when i’m thinking of somethingssome sort of a pretty woman, of fantasizing about aomething.(Don’t laugh, ease). They appear sudenly, when I think”Please,no disgusting images”. Literally, whn I think stuff like that. . And in the current week, my mind started to react a bit diffrently to some of the stuff. I’m scared, that it might think that these thoughts are normal, but when I say it reacts diffrently, I mean that it understands maybe the ridiculousness of some of the thoughts. I and If I stop thinking about my Pocd fears, than other fears kick in (Fear of hurting family members, etc). I find myself guilty, even if I look at any children, I’m really scared to look qt them. It someimes goes better and sometimes it drops worse. It’s really hard for me..i appreciate any help.
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jennifer1722 said 5 years ago:
As we spoke about before, there is a way to deal with upsetting thoughts called Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). It involves learning to leave your thoughts alone and letting them fade away which they will do naturally. Intrusive thoughts can appear at any time and about anything. There is no way to prove whether they’re real or not so there’s no point you wasting your time doing that.
You said last week that you would speak to your parents about your intrusive thoughts – did you manage to do that?
thereallysadone said 5 years ago:
I've only spoke to her about fearing to hurt my family. She said that a lot of people could relate to "Ocd", beause of all the symptoms, and that everyone has intrusive thoughts.
She said, that she can book me to a psychologist, on May 9th. I agreed.
2 days ago, she said some rude stuff to me (It's hard for her to take care of 2 children alone, and with depression, I understand that). But that really broke me into tears, yet she apologised me after that.
thereallysadone said 5 years ago:
The disgusting images, I sometimes feel good, happy, and then I remember literally "The thoughts; You should be terrified right now and fear of them" and the images come back. today it happened atleast 8 times!
jennifer1722 said 5 years ago:
That's really good that you will be seeing a psychologist. Make sure to ask them about doing CBT as it's the recommended treatment for OCD.
In the meantime, you can stop reacting to the thoughts to reduce them. Do you know how you usually react to the thoughts?
thereallysadone said 5 years ago:
I get scared. I (Don’t know how to say) press my hand together, I try to avoid them. But they always, get through my trying of blocking them. Sometimes, my mind doesn’t get scared of these thoughts, and just ignores them, but I get scared then @and remember the thoughts. It’s like a closed curcle of magicc
jennifer1722 said 5 years ago:
Unfortunately it is a cycle. You get an intrusive thought which makes you feel anxious so you do a compulsion and that compulsion makes the intrusive thoughts stronger. That’s why the CBT treatment will involve you not trying to fight or argue with the thoughts. Do you press your hands together to try to make the thoughts stop? That’s a compulsion and so are many other things you might not have noticed yet
thereallysadone said 5 years ago:
Yes, I do that as a way of stopping them. But now, a few times I reacted normally to the thoughts, and I’m scared of that.
jennifer1722 said 5 years ago:
Okay, so anything you do to try to stop the thoughts (like pressing your hands together) is known as a compulsion and it's one of things CBT will teach you to stop doing. Compulsions might reduce the anxiety momentarily but they also reinforce that anxiety so it's better if you can stop them over time. It's good that you've managed to react normally a few times though – keep working on that!
thereallysadone said 5 years ago:
Currently, the ammount of thoughts has reduced, but images appear that I’m scared of. If there are any kids shown on Tv, I got to the point, where I block the view with my own hands :(.
I really thank you Jennifer for helping me. I appreciate it with my heart
thereallysadone said 5 years ago:
Half an hour ago, i imagined (It rolled into this) of me searching for something bad on google, and I thought that I got aroused, or wanted it. I don’t know.
I started crying, I just can’t deal with this anymore. So many more stupid fears I have, that destroy every single day….
Zoe Chater said 4 years, 9 months ago:
Hi there,
I just wanted to check up on how you are doing now and whether seeing a psychologist has improved things at all for you? I really hope it has, and if not, feel free to post back and I will help in any way that I can!
Zoe