Intrusive thoughts

This is really disgusting to even talk about but I been dealing with intrusive sexual thoughts and I get triggered for everything so I avoid the news and all that but my bf was telling me this disturbing story about how someone did something sexual to a dead body and I got an intrusive image of me doing doing that and I always avoid anything bad in the news because of that and I feel so disgusted then it kept getting worse and I got an intrusive thoughts of my bf dead body and I was like wtf why would I get an image of that then my mind started bringing up family member that past away and I’m scared of getting more intrusive thoughts I’m so scared I think something is wrong with me why I’m I thinking like I love my family and bf why I’m I having these disgusting and disturbing thoughts of them or anyone it keeps getting worse I would never even wanna do that or think of that please help

Username: Colorado_88Colorado_88

Date posted: 1y ago

Try to remember we're not our thoughts, it is overactive frontal cortex, it makes us "think faster and more" than the average person, it's unpleasant, but it's just your mind racing through anything that "could happen" not that it's something you would want to happen, just that it's out there in the world, I have learned from this group, and NOCD therapy page, it's difficult, but you have to sit with it, and allow it to "make sense" somehow, and question it, don't be afraid of a thought, it can't physically harm you, I struggle with stuff like this alot, intrusive sexual thought especially, sorry you're having a rough time, I hope this helps

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

If you beleive in prayer..God will help you..turn your thoughts in creation, and nevet underestimate the power of prayer, it helping me one day at a tine.

Username: ambermayxambermayx

Date posted: 24w ago

hey this post is from ages ago but it popped up for me and it’s something I’ve been really struggling with. I had a messed up thought like this when pleasuring myself and keep getting it but it makes me feel like I wanted it because I was worried before pleasuring myself that it would happen. So when it did happen my brain was like well you knew that was going to happen so now it feels like I wanted that and that I’m a terrible person. I’m so scared it’s not ocd and that I’m a disgusting person because this always happens but last night just really tipped me over the edge. It gave me su!c!dal thoughts. It just feels like I don’t even know who I am I just don’t know how to deal with this. I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with this, but your post really helped to know I’m not alone. I also avoid things such as the news as I get really triggered and start having all these unwanted sexual thoughts about things that I don’t want. My sexual intrusive thoughts are 100% my worse ones they are so disturbing and wish they would stop.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 21w ago

I completely understand where you are coming from . I have been having intrusive thoughts about family members and it scares me and freaks out. I am 47 and I have never had to deal with this before. It's very unnerving and unsettling. I love my family and friends and would never ever want to do those awful things that pop up in my mind from seeing something on TV or hearing something on the radio. I keep trying to figure why this happening? What is wrong with my brain? It just brings me down down that I am having these awful thoughts

Username: zg23

Date posted: 5y ago

Need some advice here as I feel like such a sick twisted person..I feel like I may have sexual intrusive thoughts ocd but sometimes I think it’s just me and my twisted brain- intrusive thoughts about my family members has turned into pedophilia ocd and what makes it worse is that I work with children. Lately I’ve been seeing sexual intrusive images of me sexually abusing young children normally male, and I am obviously distressed by them and I would never act on that but it makes me feel like I would actually do that cause of the feeling I would get and it’s all so confusing and scary cause I would never do that to a child. Please someone help that has maybe been through a similar experience?

Username: jelpk

Date posted: 5y ago

LONG POST: Can someone help me by answering this? I’ve had intrusive thoughts before but I used to just push them away. In September, I had intrusive thought about life after death and it sent me into a spiral of fear and anxiety. I had trouble falling asleep and focusing during the day. I went to see a therapist a month later. It was a walk-in session and they told me to do CBT. Accept uncertainty and move on. This gave me even more anxiety. Eventually, with meditation, i was able to keep the thoughts at bay. Then in December, I began to have intrusive thoughts about my sister. They were sexually disturbing and I even wished that I could have intrusive thoughts about death again. I then it switched to sexual thoughts about my brother and he’s only a kid so I feel even more disgusted by myself. It’s been like this for three months now. I’ve tried meditating but it’s not doing much. I’m ashamed to tell my parents and I don’t know what to do. I’m afraid I’ll act on the thoughts all the time. Then I wonder if I actually want to have them. It’s so draining. I hate waking up each day to these thoughts. I wonder if I actually want to have them since I have had them for so long. I’m so frustrated with myself.

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Username: xlm17

Date posted: 2y ago

morbid intrusive thoughts

hello! I am struggling right now because my intrusive thoughts haven’t been bad in almost a year, then out of nowhere things are getting awful. I’ve had them my whole life but it feels like my brain is attacking me with the most disgusting and weird things I could possibly think of. I’m not worried I will act on them but I’m more just freaked out that my mind is capable of coming up with these things and it makes me question who I am as a person. I’ve been to the ER twice this week with suicidal thoughts, I can’t do SSRI treatment because I have sensitive serotonin receptors and they always really mess me up. I feel like a freak right now and I just don’t know how to cope.

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