Okay.so I have a question for everyone on here.
How do you handle yourself when you start to have obsessive thoughts.
Example
Last night I kept having thoughts of my first panic attack and how the ambulance had to take me away, and how my heart was beating so fast I thought I was going to die.
I just couldnt get the thought out of my head!!
Then of course it brings on anxiety
Obsessive thinking and how you prevent it
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I always try thinking of something else, or something positive. Sometimes it works, but other times it doesn't. It's hard to control. My obsessive thoughts are usually about being afraid of my family dying, me killing myself because I lose control, or my severe symptoms returning.
My councelor and the crisis hotline told me to find a hobby that will occupy your mind. I started doing puzzles, and trying to read more. I still wander off mentally while doing these activities, but it's a start I suppose...
My councelor and the crisis hotline told me to find a hobby that will occupy your mind. I started doing puzzles, and trying to read more. I still wander off mentally while doing these activities, but it's a start I suppose...
DMP,
Sounds like that first experience traumatized you. I know its not fun. I wrote something up about PTSD in the spiritual section about that. Tell me what do you love to do? Perhaps different hair styles? Reading? Trying different make up? Painting? Only examples when an obsessive thought comes up you have to attack it with what you love so much. Because of your love for something is great it will knock out that obsessive thought that is challenging you. I love reading...but I just can't pick up anything and read it....So when an intrusive thought comes in I always pick up my favorite spiritual book and start reading it. I become so consumed that what initally drove me to it has now passed. I may go back and forth all day...but the end result is that I keep winning back my moments.....
Blessings...
Sounds like that first experience traumatized you. I know its not fun. I wrote something up about PTSD in the spiritual section about that. Tell me what do you love to do? Perhaps different hair styles? Reading? Trying different make up? Painting? Only examples when an obsessive thought comes up you have to attack it with what you love so much. Because of your love for something is great it will knock out that obsessive thought that is challenging you. I love reading...but I just can't pick up anything and read it....So when an intrusive thought comes in I always pick up my favorite spiritual book and start reading it. I become so consumed that what initally drove me to it has now passed. I may go back and forth all day...but the end result is that I keep winning back my moments.....
Blessings...
ATTITUDE -- The mind is like a parachute...it doesn't work unless it's open!!
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I have had obsessive thinking since as long as i can remember my anxiety being. I usually get strange, disturbing repeating images or sounds circling through my head, that just drives me crazy. This started worrying me as if it wasn't just anxiety, maybe something really mentally wrong with me. Turns out to be a common symptom of OCD, which is quite related to anxiety.
Anyways, in another forum i posted the same topic and i was told NOT to try and force these thoughts from your head, which in turn actually makes it worse. You just have to accept that they're there and let them pass through your mind. You really need to get focused on something else though, it does help the situation immensely.
Anyways, in another forum i posted the same topic and i was told NOT to try and force these thoughts from your head, which in turn actually makes it worse. You just have to accept that they're there and let them pass through your mind. You really need to get focused on something else though, it does help the situation immensely.