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Old Dec 23, 2013, 11:40 PM
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Hey there. If you're in NOVA like your profile says, get to Woodburn mental health on Gallows Road. It's county, they have to treat you. I didn't have insurance several months ago and that's where I went. They are very good. You can get the treatment you need there. please tell us how it goes. Keep us updated. Good luck!
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Old Dec 24, 2013, 01:53 AM
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The past couple of weeks I was suffering from intrusive thoughts that I already have or will email or write an innapropriate offensive letter to my roommates

there was times I woke up in the morning and my intrusive thoughts said that sometime when I was sleeping I woke up wrote a highly innapropriate letter about my roomate and his family and the intrusive thoughts said that i hide it in his computer desk

I always fought these intrusive thoughts I knew that I would never do that

There was times I woke up in the middle of the night to get milk and food to eat cause around those days I was smoking cannabis and I got hungry

So when i was in the kitchen around those days of smoking cannabis, I would go get food,

On top of our refrigerator is kitchen cleaning products

I would get a quick intrusive thought of " me poisoning our food and drinks " with mental images of doing this terrible act

And I was able to tell myself immediately that is redicolous , I would never do that , I was able to brush off the intrusive thought of poisoning food and drinks really fast

And while making food I would get an intrusive though with intrusive visual images that I wrote a highly innapropriate letter about my roomates family and that I hide it in his computer desk

And I would tell myself I know what reality is ... I just woke up and walked past my roomates computer desk and I went straight to the kitchen

It's scary how the intrusive thoughts and intrusive visual images of these fears attack my brain and make it feel very real , they feel like delusions , hallucinations , the intrusive attacks make it feel like it happened and it's hard to believe if it really happened or not .....

I got mentally paralized and told my roomates days later that I have these intrusive thoughts , I explained to them that i could be on facebook, my email and i sudden get intrusive thoughts that I wrote something highly innapropriate to a friend about his family. I told my roomates that I'm even afraid to go to people's homes cause im afraid I will lose control of myself or blackout mentally and write a note or letter about the friend and his family and hide it somewhere in there house ,

My roomates obviously checked the computer desk and there was no innapropriate letters hidden in the computer from me

I knew these were severe intrusive thoughts/intrusive images/pure-o/harm-ocd/ and false memory symptoms

3days ago I was looking online and found a way to fight of the intrusive thoughts of me saying or writing something innapropriate to friends by mentally telling myself " I accept that I do not accept these thoughts "

That made me feel better

So 3 days ago I went to take a shower , my roomate and his friend was home

After the shower I was hungry so i went to the kitchen made a turkey sandwich got milk ,

I saw the kitchen cleaning products on top our refrigerator

And of course being a human that i am I have vision I see what's around me and think as any other human would

I finished eating then put the plate and cup into the sink

And then like 2 minutes later all of a sudden I got intrusive thoughts and intrusive visual images of me " poisoning food and drinks that's in our refrigerator with the kitchen cleaning products "

It made me feel so disgusting , awful, I was very scared and I was having a panic attack

I kept on telling myself I would never do that , I kept on telling myself I have no memory of touching any of those kitchen cleaning products, I kept on telling myself I have no memory of ever doing that to calm me down to try to fight off the terrible thoughts and images of this evil terrible thought

I even told myself that I would drink and eat anything in the refrigerator

I don't have any urges to do anything like this

It's mentally and physically paralizing when u have thoughts and images that u did this act

What gives me hope is me telling myself that I have no memory of doing this

And I look at the kitchen cleaning products on top of our refrigerator to try to face my fears, I look at the cleaning products and tell myself that I have never touched any of them , and that I would never purposively poison anyone's drinks or food

The next day and today me being in the kitchen causes a lot of worries and it scares me , it's this constant fear that since I have these intrusive thoughts that I will lose consciousness somehow and poison food and drinks and not remember.

I feel like if I told my roomates to hide the kitchen cleaning products I would feel a little better

But that would scare them

I have to face my fears and I know that I would never poison food and drinks

It's awful these intrusive thoughts and intrusive images have made me feel super depressed and super sick , I've been thinking about going to the mental hospital
Talk therapy is my recommendation. Find a good counselor who may do you for free. Call around and explain your situation.

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Old Dec 25, 2013, 05:00 PM
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on December 20th 2013 i went to an emergency room, i talked with a rn, then a social worker who was amazing gorgeous and super helpful, then i talked with a doctor (MD) i let them know all my real stories of mental trauma i was going through. they gave me 3 options, 1st one was to stay at the hospital overnight and they would put me on seroquel, 2nd option was to stay for a week in the ''mental hospital'' unit upstairs in the hospital, and 3rd option i took was to be discharged from the emergency room which is what i did but later i wished i stayed in the mental hospital, in another medical center they diagnosed me of having '' bipolar disorder '' the symptoms got worse and i ended up moving back to virginia to be with friends and family, the symptons of severe scary thoughts didnt go away so last night around midnight today on Christmas day i went to a hospital emergency room, i told the rn my scary fears and stories and then my blood, urine, and heart was checked, then i talked to a doctor and after that i had a video chat with an awesome Psychiatrist, i let her know everything, she told me that i am a drug addict, and that 10 years of abusing cannabis, alcohol, and other hard drugs was not good for the mind, also she let me know that i have a '' thought disorder and Psychosis ''
she told me dont give an audience to your terrible thoughts, then she told me to be at the Assessment Center at noon today on Christmas, my friends drove me i talked with a psychiatrist there today, i told him my real stories and fears, the diagnosis of this visit was '' Bipolar 1 disorder, manic, moderate '' he told me that bipolar disorder can absolutely have intrusive thoughts involved with it. he Prescribed me '' DIVALPROEX SOD DR 500 MG TAB '' take 1 tablet twice daily, i will visit him this monday for a follow up

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Old Dec 27, 2013, 01:01 AM
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Hi Helpme,
I see a lot of people have given you some good advice already. I can understand having intrusive thoughts. They get so overwhelming sometimes I can't even take it. Cognitive therapy can help. You can work on it with someone if its hard for you to motivate yourself. I also found that getting that obsessive energy out while running or exercising helps also. Also, try slowing your thoughts down so they are more manageable and less overwhelming. Take things slow and one step at a time. I think that it would be good to talk to a doctor and see what resources you can tap into in your community. I go to a therapist that only charges me $10 per session. Maybe going to support groups can help you too.
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Old Dec 27, 2013, 02:50 AM
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This happens to me too. I'm sorry but I don't understand it either. I wish I could help more. But all I can really say is, you're not alone. I send my best wishes to you.
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Old Jan 03, 2014, 05:29 PM
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I've been on the ( divalproex 500mg tab ) My intrusive thoughts of writing hate violent emails messages , and fears that I harmed food and drinks with cleaning products didnt immediately go away, so I went back to the " psychiatric assessment center " on December 12/28/2013 and the doctor also put me on " olanzapine 10mg tab " the doctor said it would help me with my severe intrusive thoughts, I have to take one olanzapine 10mg tab nightly, tomorrow on Saturday I see the doctor , I'm gonna let him know the meds kinda calmed down the severe intrusive thoughts , but the scary thoughts are still there , maybe him adding me on an anti depressant like Prozac would help with this depressions and help stop the obsessive bad thoughts.....

It's been 7 days since I smoked cannabis

I promised my mother I will never smoke cannabis ever again

And I don't drink alcohol either

The doctor did say I have psychosis and thought disorder

" I just want to wake up and be normal again , I want to have a clear mind with good healthy thoughts "

I am all peace and love

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Old Jan 04, 2014, 01:40 PM
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I'm glad you found a little bit of help, keep to it. Thank you for keeping us updated too, I wish you all the best of luck. HUGS!! don't give up the meds will usually help. Best wishes
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Old Jan 07, 2014, 10:27 PM
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I'm glad you found a little bit of help, keep to it. Thank you for keeping us updated too, I wish you all the best of luck. HUGS!! don't give up the meds will usually help. Best wishes
what about those who keep questioning themselves as to whether they might have already done some of these things, either very recently, or in the past???!!!
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Old Feb 18, 2014, 10:18 PM
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im on 20mg prozac, 500mg divalproex twice daily, and 10mg zyprexa my intrusive repetitive thoughts that i have said or written something inappropriate, such as swearing at ones employer or writing hate-filled letters to a friend on my facebook instagram twitter wont go away hoping therapy and a higher dose of prozac will help me any advice you guys?
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Old Apr 09, 2014, 04:01 PM
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im on 20mg prozac, 500mg divalproex twice daily, and 10mg zyprexa my intrusive repetitive thoughts that i have said or written something inappropriate, such as swearing at ones employer or writing hate-filled letters to a friend on my facebook instagram twitter wont go away hoping therapy and a higher dose of prozac will help me any advice you guys?
I started suffering from Harm OCD in June of 2013 and like you, went to the hospital, where they put me on Prozac, Zyprexa and Klonopin. I also went through about 4 months of therapy with an anxiety specialist. I was able to wean myself off the Klonopin and Zyprexa and I am glad I did. They never really helped with the thoughts, but just made me into a zombie. I have been off those drugs for a couple months now and feel a lot better. The therapy has been the best thing for helping with the thoughts. Realizing that the thoughts themselves are not the problem, but it's the way we react to the thoughts that causes the problem, has really helped.

I am still on Prozac for now, and it seems to help a little with depression and doesn't seem to have the awful side effects of the other drugs.

Here is one series of articles that has helped me: ocdspecialists.com/2013/06/jon-hershfield-mft-on-harm-ocd-part-one

There are a lot of articles like this on the web.

Hang in there!
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