Are these my obsessions? - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Message Board

Skip Service · 06-18-2006, 10:14 AM

If i have written something 'religious' related and saved it on my desktop in a text file. That file just disappears from nowhere when i thought some of those 'bad thoughts'. Then my reaction to it is my Pure-O/OCD stuff or something real 'paranormal' is happening around me!

steveo23 · 06-18-2006, 03:59 PM

Obsessions, Skip. Magical thinking springs to mind here, and is very common in OCD.

Skip Service · 06-19-2006, 08:25 AM

or maybe the normal peoples don't think about it?

Skip Service · 06-19-2006, 02:51 PM

right now i was watching a movie when suddenly it flashed in my mind that i've watched this movie before and few of the scenes which 'were' in that movie are still here but the movie looked totally different to me. Like a scene i remember , but the scenes before those were gone , the entire story looked changed .... ............ and both times i saw that on a movie channel so there were no rip offs!!

This seem , strange to me again so posting it here
reply that!! plz

steveo23 · 06-20-2006, 08:08 AM

Hey Skip

Yeah, they are very much obsessive thoughts. Everybody gets odd sensations, thoughts or feelings... some really uncanny or paranormal or whatever. "Normal" people think these things all the time (so you and me are both normal). However most people just laugh, but the thing about OCD is that it attaches a signifcance to these thoughts, we obsess about em, and it freaks us out a bit. Now if you didnt have OCD I doubt you would have thoguht twice about that movie, right?

I remember once when I was younger... I could have SWORN I saw something move in a picture. It scared the hell out of me. Then because I thought about it, I kept experiencing things like that all the time. See how the brain does stuff to us?

Paranormal thoughts, magical thinking, being scared of being possesed, being fearful of blasphemous thoughts... its all very much the same thing in OCD. While a large part of OCD is physical in origin, some of it stems from the fear of not having control of things. Thats why we get scared of paranormal stuff, what MIGHT happen in life, doing things RIGHT, etc. We are control freaks, buddy.