Hi again everyone,

I wanna thank you all for your help! I’m feeling quite a bit better about all of this, and if I ever get to a rough patch again, I’ll probably look through your words for confidence. Today was a pretty good day, and every good day helps a little bit with my confidence and feeling of success. So here’s hoping that it’ll get a little easier every day. Like I said, they’re very rarely debilitating like they used to be; now, they’re more annoying than anything.

monklet80, I think your advice will help me a lot – like I said in one of my other posts, it’s easy to say that we understand advice, but hard to really internalize it. Your words about acting as bored as possible, I think, will really help to shrink the thoughts down to what they really are: just thoughts. After all, if I can’t remember what I was thinking at exactly this moment three days ago, why should I let these thoughts have any more impact on me, right?

You are all lovely people, and again, thank you so much for advice. Here’s hoping for every day to be a little better!

VJ-

I think this site was the most helpful in reassuring me: http://www.drmartinseif.com/resources/intrusive-thoughts.html

And usually it’s thoughts & images of killing or rape – and I’ve been afraid of really going into that specifically with anyone because I really don’t like how that makes me sound. And when I say “intentionally”, I don’t mean that I go and sit down and actually specifically try to see what could happen; it’s just that the thoughts are so unshakeable sometimes that it almost feels that way. Like I said before, I believe that it has been getting better, and I get a large rush of confidence if I notice that I’ve been doing well on a particular day.

Thanks.