Pure O

[Daisy131]

anyone else out there suffering with pure o? 

[Smoky Jo]

Hello,   

Yes,  many people here do,  if you feel alone,  don't be !!

[emmacharlotte1980]

hi there i do had them since my first child was born  and i suffer from harming and violent  thoughts which i find really scary wot kinda pure o do u have xx

[Daisy131]

i don't have violent thoughts, but i obsess over schizophrenia and swear i am hearing voices, though i recognize they are my own thoughts.

[beatles86]

I have pure 0, but my intrusive thoughts change quite a bit.  Usually they are not even targeted at things that have any meaning to me.  Usually I just have the urge to think these thoughts, does that make sense to anyone else, just having the urge to think something intrusive.  And of course I do not want to be thinking these thoughts!

[kes2010]

i don't have violent thoughts, but i obsess over schizophrenia and swear i am hearing voices, though i recognize they are my own thoughts.

The voices........I'm just curious. I've never been diagnosed with OCD or anything.......and not even officially with GAD, but it doesn't take a genius to recognize it. Anyway, lately I have been hearing someone call my name. It doesn't scare me until I'm alone. For example, I own a cleaning business and I clean a church. Often I am there alone and that is when I truly hear someone calling my name. It startles me and creeps me out somewhat. I do not recognize the voice. It isn't clear.........but undoubtedly a voice and they are calling my name. I just might be nuts. LOL

[Daisy131]

do you hear it outside your head, like a radio or people talking? or inside your head?

[eduk8or]

Daisy,

I have the shizophrenia intrusive thoughts.  Mine, instead of focusing on hearing voices, are focusing on if I am being paranoid or not.  For example, I have a security system in my home and I often wonder if the little security boxes around the house are really cameras with people "watching" me.  When I start feeling paranoid, I think, "uh oh I have paranoid shizophrenia and this is the beginning of me losing my mind."  My therapist has explained to me over and over again that schizophrenia is a lot more complicated than that and that I do not have it, but I still get anxiety about it happening.  My other intrusive thoughts are the violent/ harming thoughts, so if I don't have one kind, I usually have the other, with "normal" days in between.  I have been diagnosed as having OCD tendencies, so the intrusive thoughts, whatever kind they may be, are all part of this "fun" anxiety disorder and nothing more.  We have anxiety disorders and that is what we should focus on dealing with.

[Id Smash]

hi there i do had them since my first child was born  and i suffer from harming and violent  thoughts which i find really scary wot kinda pure o do u have xx

Ditto to this. I spent 6 months staying away from my daughter because I was so scared.

It got easier as time went on although I still hide the occasional knife =/

[eduk8or]

I still feel like I have to force myself to cut up vegetables or whatever when my kids are around because of my fear of knives due to my violent/harming thoughts.  I wonder if there will ever be a day when I can cut stuff up without these stupid thoughts popping in to my brain?!

[idleman52]

I got two word for you: Hell yeah

[stressedgal25]

I suffer with both the fear and obsession of schizophrenia/psychois and the violent/harming thoughts. It's a nightmare but I am learning to deal with it through an OCD group that I'm attending. Also knowing that other people are going through the same and have the same thoughts but never act on them is a great help.
I still have the obsessions, but I have good days and bad days. If I'm not obsessing about my mental health then I'm obsessing about the thoughts! I've been told its Rumination OCD which I think is the same as PURE O.

[eduk8or]

Stressed,

Just know that you are not alone!!