Hiya Lee! It isn't so much making the OCD worse. I just found I was going on a witch hunt within myself. Ie on another board, if I read about some sort of OCD...
I don't want to go into too much detail about myself right now,but what i would like to know is is it possible to have lots of intrusive thoughts and can they...
Hi Belinda, too right mate. Intrusive thoughts are the name of the game on this board so you're definately in the right place. I've had intensity ranging from...
Dear Lee Looks like i have to tell you a little bit about my self tonight,well i am 37 yrs old,was prescribed antidepressants in 98 due to clinical depression...
I have intrusive thoughts but when you say loud do mean, repeat faster? mine will just be there, the thought, usually mine are innappropiate sexual or harmful...
Dear Lee How can we ever contain control of these thoughts when they just pop into your head.how do we keep them out Take care Belinda [Non-text portions of...
Debbie, All i can do is cry these thoughts are so disturbing,i'm scared,i feel as if i will go mad,i so want my happy caring and loving nature back. Belinda...
-Dear Belinda, Are you are any medication? I know how you feel. I was on luvox doing really well for 4 yrs and i decided to go off it and after about 3 months...
Hi I'm new. I have been diagnosed with depression, the symptoms being obsessive awareness of my breathing and sometimes blinking, which causes me chronic...
Hi Belinda, I wrote this to a girl named Debs back in October. Since then I have been up and down but still what is written below applies and helps. The more...
Well that's it in a nutshell isn't it. There's always another one around the corner. But if we try and realise that the thoughts and fear are sysmtoms of what...
-Keith, Thanks for that,hope you are doing o.k today. I would like to ask a question,if one thinks they have an illness over and over again can it be or be...
Dear Deb Glad the C.B.T is helping you,I have never suffered from intrusive thoughts until i stopped my med for clinical depression, to which it is now why i...
Dear Lee I am a new member,my name is Belinda you posted me when i was desperate,please let me know how you are doing on your medication,i hope you are feeling...
Hi Belinda Happy new year. In my humble oppinion yes I do think it's part of OCD Hypochondria is an OCD symptom. I used to get reocurring thoughts all the time...
Dear Keith Happy new year and i hope it is a good one. When i was on the seroxat i was having the same thoughts, like having a heart attack etc. i guess it was...
I've suffered from ocd since the age of 15. I get these horrible intrusive thoughts which cause me great anxiety. Mostly the thoughts contain images of myself...
Hi, I've recently joined too. I've had ocd since I was 13 but it just got worse over the past 5 and a half years. I have obsessive actions. Where I have to ...
Hi Belinda, you said that I posted you when you were desperate, does that mean that you're now a little better, I hope so. Anyway, constant obsession about...
I have been really good with my ocd for a while. I mostly have mental obsessions and compulsions usually about "did i cheat on my boyfriend" or "did I kiss ...
Hiya Debbie! That's the thing with Ocd isn't it? It appears to associate it self with the things and people were really care about. Never anything that we...
Hiya Maz welcome to the group. It is a nice place isn't it! Good luck with your therapy. If you have any questions about it, Lee is our resident expert on the...
I'm pleased to her the meds are working a little bit. When I first realised the meds were helping me, I thought to myself this is my Ocd gone for good. So when...
=== Hiya Maz welcome to the group. It is a nice place isn't it! Good luck with your therapy. If you have any questions about it, Lee is our resident expert on...
Dear Keith, Thanks for the advice, though I do go for CBT once a week, and I go thursday mornings. I haven't been there yet since the thought came into my...
Heu Debs, what your therapist says is very true, I've never heard anyone say it before but it somes up a lot of my experiences exactly. Your aim is to get to...
Great to see you knocking about again and you seem to have a little sense of humur back, must be the scouse in you, eh, knock it on the ed. Sorry pal. Anyway...
Thanks for the advice. True, the more I think realistically I know it is OCD talking , not me!! I think, "yay ok, debbie, sure you remember someone putting...
