violent intrusive thoughts

i am having difficulties with very strong intrusive thoughts.

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lately i can feel my wrists being cut and i cannot stop thinking about the mess and the pain and the numbing. i think about *mod edit*

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i check and check and check. i keep my arms limp when i can. i lie on my stomachs. i count and pray to make these thoughts stop. only sometimes they do.

i am stuck thinking. do you get stuck thinking? if you do not compulse, what do you do when these thoughts hurt?

I used to get hung up over intrusive thoughts of harm to myself or others, but for the most part I've ceased to be bothered by them, because I've never acted on them. They're just thoughts, they can't make me act them out.

I still get then sometimes, but they've lost a lot of their power to bother me, because I began to refuse to let them.

I also suffer from harm OCD. It's hard and I'm still trying to cope. Through therapy I have learned to remind myself that it's my OCD and risk the thought of being OCD instead of doing my normal compulsions. I will search online all day for all my diffferent symptoms just to make sure it's OCD. I also repeat phrases over and over in my head to try and end the thought. It's hard but I'm trying. Also started ERP with my therapist.