OCD and intrusive thoughts...Please answer...?

Question

Here's my question, you've heard about synchronicity in life and "coincidences", right? And how you can manifest things just by thinking about them. But my question is, what about people with ocd? They get intrusive thoughts and sometimes, some people (like me), obsess over a certain thing 24/7. It'll be all that's on their mind (I'm obsessed with HIV/Illnesses). Well, because they're thinking about it so much and getting intrusive thoughts about it and are overly obsessed and worried about it, does it mean they'll come true? I've found in the past 2 years or so, that whenever I think about something or someone, it tends to happen. For example, and this is kind of a dumb example, but still. Anyway, I was on someone's top 8 on myspace. Someone I really like and I told my friend I'm afraid to show anyone because I might be taken off. Then I kept getting intrusive thoughts about it. Well, 2 days later, everyone was taken off the top. Someone said it had been hacked into or something very confusing, I forget what it was exactly. But I end up seeing people when I think abou them, and all these things happen when I think about them and I'm beginning to think I'm making these things happen. And for someone with ocd, bipolar, and schizotypal personality disorder, and a whole bunch of other anxiety disorders, this can be a pretty scary thing. Especially when the thing you're obsessed with is HIV. I always feel like something is after me or wanting to infect me. I don't even have s*x or do drugs or had any blood transfusions or anything (knock on wood). But I feel like just to eat at restaurants is putting myself at risk because I'm afriad/convinced that people/something is trying to infect me. How do you know when it's just your mental illness doing this to you, or when it's becoming something a little more complicated? Do you think if you think/obsess about something (like this disease), you can make situations happen even if you don't put yourself at risk (have s*x, do drugs, etc...)? Since it's intrusive thoughts due to my ocd, it doesn't really count, right?

Sorry if this is confusing. Thanks!

Answer 1

I think that you need to make an appointment with a psychiatrist because these thoughts could literally make you go crazy?  I also had recurring thoughts about germs and diseases when I was younger and I went to a psychiatrist and after that things started to get better and I can control these distubing thoughts that used to scare me.

Answer 2

With ocd people tend to think that  their thoughts have more power than they actually have. In your situation, you are worried about something tangible (illness). Your thoughts cannot control something that requires actions from others; your thoughts can only control what you do. I understand what you are going through. 8 years I suffered from OCD dealing with both tangible and intangible fears. The tangible dealt with chemicals- I thought I would be poisoned somehow. When eating in a restaurant I would look around and think, "what are the odds that I would be poisoned and no one else sitting here?" I convinced myself that I would hear it on the news if something serious happened later, or that since others were fine, I may be okay as well. I hope that I am not confusing you : to get an illness you would require the irresponsible actions of someone else, not just overly thinking about it. Your thoughts cannot make you get HIV because you dont have it now. Only another person can give it to you, and since you abstain from all risks, you will not get it. The only thing you can do is to stop and access the situation. look around you: if others are trusting the restaurant, it is likely that you can as well. Good luck

Answer 3

Are you taking medication?  There are lots of tablets that can help with obssessive behaviour but the only one who can break the cycle is yourself. I have read that 70% of physical illness starts in the mind, so there is some truth in making things happen because you are constantly thinking about them.

Thinking of people and then seeing them is very common.  It happens to me all the time.  We all have psychic abilities and I think that is all this is. Certainly by obssessing over things, you are wishing them to happen.  Have you tried cognitive behaviour therapy?

Don't worry - it's a long, slow process and you probably won't even notice any improvement at first, but people around you will.  You really should be taking some medication.  The side effects are a lot easier to cope with than what you're going through now.  What's fatigue, blurred vision, nausea compared to the h**l you're in right now??  Please get some tablets!!!!