rozza
25-02-08, 14:11
Hey,
Haven't been on this for yonks but appear to have reached a point where I need some advice about thoughts I've been having recently.
In the past I've had depression, pure o OCD and related anxiety, now I'm pretty much fine, I still occasionally have the intrusive thoughts as I did then related to harming others but as I recognise them for what they are they don't bother me. Well, that's what I thought until the past month or so. I'm unsure whether the thoughts I'm having at the moment are OCD but they fit a similar pattern and are causing distress so I've been treating them as such.
Sorry, I'm a one for waffling, here's the crux of the matter!
I met a new man last November who I'm absolutely besotted with and who is besotted with me too (go me!) and everything was going great until, when on a combination of drink and drugs, I appear to have mistaken him for my ex. I can't remember this and obviously it caused a huge row and we split up. We've got back together and everything is going great, he understands I don't have any feelings for my ex anymore (I definitely don't, he treated me pretty badly) and knows how I feel about him. However, over the past few weeks I've been having intrusive thoughts around blurting out my ex's name by mistake, which would obviously split us up, to me the worst possible thing that could happen so fitting with OCD. I've started re-running conversations we've had in my head to check I haven't said anything and am ruminating a lot on this.
Has anybody got any advice? Or suffered similar thoughts? I've tried various things, letting myself think I'm going to say my ex's name when I'm with my boyfriend (obviously I don't) and I'm spending as much time with my new man as I can but the thoughts are still bothering me.
Thanks very much in advance, I've had some good advice from this website in the past.
Rozza
Haven't been on this for yonks but appear to have reached a point where I need some advice about thoughts I've been having recently.
In the past I've had depression, pure o OCD and related anxiety, now I'm pretty much fine, I still occasionally have the intrusive thoughts as I did then related to harming others but as I recognise them for what they are they don't bother me. Well, that's what I thought until the past month or so. I'm unsure whether the thoughts I'm having at the moment are OCD but they fit a similar pattern and are causing distress so I've been treating them as such.
Sorry, I'm a one for waffling, here's the crux of the matter!
I met a new man last November who I'm absolutely besotted with and who is besotted with me too (go me!) and everything was going great until, when on a combination of drink and drugs, I appear to have mistaken him for my ex. I can't remember this and obviously it caused a huge row and we split up. We've got back together and everything is going great, he understands I don't have any feelings for my ex anymore (I definitely don't, he treated me pretty badly) and knows how I feel about him. However, over the past few weeks I've been having intrusive thoughts around blurting out my ex's name by mistake, which would obviously split us up, to me the worst possible thing that could happen so fitting with OCD. I've started re-running conversations we've had in my head to check I haven't said anything and am ruminating a lot on this.
Has anybody got any advice? Or suffered similar thoughts? I've tried various things, letting myself think I'm going to say my ex's name when I'm with my boyfriend (obviously I don't) and I'm spending as much time with my new man as I can but the thoughts are still bothering me.
Thanks very much in advance, I've had some good advice from this website in the past.
Rozza