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Recurring Anxieties and Thoughts?

Postby ocdpossessed » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:00 am

I have a lot of recurring thoughts and anxieties with my OCD, mostly about being physically assaulted by people or getting in trouble with the law due to having done something completely inappropriate. I have been on a streak of relative comfort from my OCD for a little while now and now my distress and the problems are starting to creep their way back into my life again. Some of my main and usual recurring thoughts and the ones that I am dealing with now have to do with people i was distressed about since i first started having serious OCD problems. A typical thought would be about doing or saying something to them that would result in me being seriously injured and/or humiliated due to them assaulting me and bringing even more shame and discomfort to my situation. One key instigator of these such thoughts has been having a Facebook account. I have really bad anxious thoughts about having sent these people or their close friends/family members provoking/inappropriate emails or messages, and of course with this disorder when it is at its worse i can never reassure myself whether or not i actually did these things. i did move to a new city a couple of years ago, but conveniently, some of the same people that caused me this distress moved here as well. despite it being a large city and having never seen them here i still feel that i am in some jeopardy. I can't help but visualize me saying something and them somehow showing up at my door one day refusing to leave my property until they assault me or something. Now that the summer is around the corner it will prompt me to feel even more in jeopardy about these things as the sun as well as people are out more and i have always felt a sense of vulnerability in public because of this. I did delete my real facebook account but it only lasted a week until i created an account under a made up alias, as i use facebook for different purposes. What can I do to reassure myself that i am in full control of my actions and that I wont say these things. Waiting it out, though nothing has happened up to this point, has been really distressful.
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Re: Recurring Anxieties and Thoughts?

Postby jasmin » Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:17 pm

Hi, ocdpossessed! Are you in therapy? Some people here have said that thinking about these things, confronting them and trying not to see them as dangerous thoughts might help a bit. Maybe it would help to think about how these people are actually nice and they would not hurt anyone, about how you can actually handle yourself in a stressful situation and no one would assault you, about how you are not rude to people.
What do you think?
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