A few days ago, my intrusive thoughts were triggered and I found it completely impossible to stop myself from asking reassurance questions. In fact none of the tips I've read about entered my mind, the intrusive thoughts felt completely real and I became a crying shaking mess for the whole day. I was totally exhausted and had the best sleep in ages. I felt calmer the next day which was yesterday and thought a lot about how you can ever mange to acknowledge its your ocd whilst in the midst of the horror.
This morning a similar trigger and intrusive thought entered my mind and the same anxiety started to build, I managed to tell myself that it wasnt real, it was just a thought and it will pass and right now as im typing, my anxiety has lifted. Im so proud of myself for being able to recognize what was happening to me.
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Hi noodles17 one of my ocd themes is that at some point my children have been sexually abused and haven't told me, when for instance, they've had tea in a friends house.
Last week I was triggered by one of my daughters crying, she was upset because she didn't want to wear a pair of shoes I bought her. To my ocd mind, it didn't seem reasonable to be crying for something so trivial and I thought she must be crying about something else and this was the trigger. I started questioning her, asking has something happened to her has someone hurt her and my mind totally ran away with this and I was totally consumed with horror and guilt and had one of the worst anxiety attacks of my life. The next day when I was more rational, it occurred to me that my daughter is at an age when fashion and keeping up with what everyone else is wearing is important. X
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