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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Join Tia Wilson, lived-experience advocate and NOCD Community Engagement Marketing Specialist, in exploring intrusive thoughts, especially as they appear in the context of OCD. Why these thoughts are so distressing, what they mean, and how to get started disengaging from them.
Great info....I find a helpful hack is that OCD simply points out to you what you hold precious. Knowing that, you can dismiss the brain's misfiring and move on....hope that helps 🙏
thank you ❤
Thank you :)
Yeah but I don’t know how not to engage with the thoughts. The rumination won’t stop
My intrusive thoughts get worse when I get anxiety so what I do I start to do deep breathing and they go away immediately.
This is very unhelpful. I've been diagnosed with OCD and I've never in my life had intrusive thoughts that are even remotely related to any of the examples given. My intrusive/obsessive thoughts are always about what could happen to me, not what I might do. I've never had the urge to push someone in front of a train, but if I hear sniffles on the train my mind will race with all the possibile ways I could get sick myself and all the problems it would cause to be sick at this time and how much more convenient it would be at a different time. I honestly can't even really sympathize with people having thoughts like in your examples. It's like, ok, well, don't do the thing. I can't control if I get sick because someone decided to take a long distance train while contagious. But I can choose not to do the things in your examples.
Your theme and intrusive thought is also ocd, and i can relate, i used to wash my hands for an hour straifht every time I shook hands or touched surfaces to make sure nothing terrible would happen to me. In the video shes just giving one example but It's the same beast, just you're incredibly distressed on what may happen to you, while others are distressed about who they may be or what they'll do. Youll find it easy to do what people with other themes find incredibly difficult! So i suggest contanimation ocd resourses (: There are different subtypes like contamination, harm, and relationship ocd to name a few. But the treatment is the same, to expose ourselves and resist compulsions.
That comment is a bit rude and undermines other peoples’ feelings and experiences. If someone sniffles on a train most likely your immune system will kill any germ or virus that there is and if not there are not a lot of illnesses you can get that are untreatable so why worry anyway you might say. But the problem with ocd is not rational fears; its how our brain responds to even non threatening situations. And that was the idea of her video.
Just because you don't have these theme of intrusive thought doesn't men others don't. It sounds like you have a different subtype (contamination OCD) then some of the ones she mentioned (harm and sexual OCD). Just because you don't experience these types of intrusive thoughts doesn't mean other people with OCD don't. And this video can help the people it applies to.
You don’t have ocd then