[nathanielfirst]

I was wondering... since i started having obsessional thinking, and thought replacement, I've found that my thoughts have grown in unacceptability to me... I mean, that more and more disturbing thoughts occur, they become more disturbing, they grow past the level of how horrible anything that comes from my own mind could possibly be, at least from the perspective of, before OCD. Does anyone have a similar experience, of the thoughts feeding on each other, multiplying? I know everyone becomes gradually more disturbed by OCD but my question here is do the thoughts become worse?

[girlcharm18]

omg about five months ago my thoughts were at it peak everything u have said here is how I felt then they got worse and worse and one day it just slowed sometimes it comes and goes and I will have good days till I get "triggered" its awful but I have been doing well handling it I noticed if u don't give attetion to them and know that u are not ur thoughts whatever they might be it helps them to subside!!

[girlcharm18]

but I know exactly what u mean I felt the exact I mean exact way it like u said my words lol! I found help from getting positive afframations written by a guy named paramahansa yognanda and when my thoughts got so out of control and it seemed like I was going crazy I would listen to podcast for positive thinking and certin ones that stimulate gamma and theta waves in the brain to reduced the anxiety caused by this pure obessional thoughts!

[e_sort]

Originally Posted by nathanielfirst

I was wondering... since i started having obsessional thinking, and thought replacement, I've found that my thoughts have grown in unacceptability to me... I mean, that more and more disturbing thoughts occur, they become more disturbing, they grow past the level of how horrible anything that comes from my own mind could possibly be, at least from the perspective of, before OCD. Does anyone have a similar experience, of the thoughts feeding on each other, multiplying? I know everyone becomes gradually more disturbed by OCD but my question here is do the thoughts become worse?

i have had a similar experience of thoughts feeding on each other and multiplying. like you think of a really bad thing, and then every day your lovely brain adds some really bad new element. i've had many thoughts i would never tell anyone, not a therapist, not my husband, nobody.

for me it gets worse with stress, but it got better with medicine. are you in any treatment?

[gimmeice]

Hello natanielfirst, it's nice to meet you. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to private message me or any community liaison or moderator, here is a link to the list of the community team
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Now that thats out of the way, yes I know the kind of thoughts you are talking about, I get that a lot. One time I tried to explain how one thought leads to another to my therapist and even though she has ocd she seemed amazed at the process. The exercise I am supposed to try to stop that with is this, imagine your thoughts are clouds and recognize them but let them pass in their own time try not to really feed them by thinking to much about them. That being said I don't have much luck with that but it may be worth a try because some people have been helped by that.

[nathanielfirst]

I am not in treatment since it is only obsessional and no compulsions, so it doesn't effect my job, and I want to try to deal with it on my own, before thinking about medication. Does anyone have any suggestions? I try substituting a good thought for a bad - works half the time... but not all.

[philbee]

i have the same problem that has been addressed here with obsessional thinking. i get a thought in my head about something, and i can't seem to get rid of it!! i also worry about things tremendously, and this makes me paranoid and will start the schizoaffective symptoms now and again.

i had been told once the zoloft can help control it, but i have never seen evidence of this happening. as far as i know, there are no meds which will control OCD. but i could be wrong.

[Locust]

I will respond in more detail later, but I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. I used to get this like CRAZY and it drove me crazy. It bothered me worse than the obessions that came with compulsions. These were worse for me because they are harder to satisfy. They do not come with instructions on how to quiet them for a moment. You are not alone. I had this much worse in the past than now, but still have a small degree of it, AND at least 2 of my cousins who have OCD, had this issue, as well. After searching for it online, I did find others with the same prob. Yet, it is not spoken about as often in articles, is it?