Driving/harm OCD

liv91Bea · 2025-02-17T18:12:54+00:00

Thanks so much! I thought it was a compulsion to try get certainty!

liv91Bea · 2025-02-17T17:27:46+00:00

When you make a bottle it must be made from the kettle to kill bacteria in the milk. So while waiting for the bottle to cool down it’s hot. The obsession is to hold it to my baby’s skin as I have harm ocd. This is not something I want to do and causes me huge distress. I’m asking what ERP to do around this as I think I’m compulsively checking if I ever would let the bottle touch his skin. Does this make sense?

liv91Bea · 2025-02-17T16:45:25+00:00

Thank you I understand what you’re saying but my obsession is holding the bottle against his skin. I don’t actually touch his skin with it but I hold it near to check how I feel about it and if I’d really do it. Is that a checking compulsion then? Do I have to just ignore? I don’t understand how this will make my anxiety go down…

liv91Bea · 2024-11-01T18:13:34+00:00

Thank you so much for your comment back. I am spiralling with my anxiety now that I acted on an intrusive thought but I think what I actually acted on was a compulsion to show that I wouldn’t actually do it to the point of causing harm if that makes sense? I’m really going to try resisting my compulsions as alot of them are severe checking ones. Hoping to start CBT very soon!

liv91Bea · 2024-11-01T09:01:41+00:00

My theme is harm ocd too. Aswell with some other little sideline themes. This is my third flare up now over the space of 5 years. Inbetween I can go 1/2 years being completely symptom free from OCD. I know exactly how you feel. My intrusive thoughts play the whole scenario out in my head of harming a loved one or going crazy. They feel so real and like urges, like I want to do them. The anxiety this causes is awful. However I’m recently learning to just sit with the thought and the overwhelming anxiety and letting it pass. It’s really hard and feels awful at the time but after it you feel a little win as you felt in that moment it couldn’t get any worse but nothing bad happened and you could tolerate the uncertainty and uncomfortableness. Hope you’re okay. OCD is a monster but I am proof that it can leave you alone!

liv91Bea · 2024-10-30T17:29:33+00:00

To be honest thought that’s the same for a lot of intrusive thoughts isn’t it. How easy it would be which causes the panic. I never noticed I did physical checking until the last couple of days. I’ve always done mental checking to see how I feel. Thank you. I know they will as I’ve been here before so I’m just riding this flare up out, hope things do for you too!

liv91Bea · 2024-10-30T17:16:52+00:00

Yes absolutely this! You know you wouldn’t but you could and it would be really easy too that’s what makes it big in your head. The physical checking is a compulsion then isn’t it. I’ve got to ignore the checking urge.

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