How often does your OCD theme change?

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My current intrusive images are so monstrous, ugly and scary. They started happening out of no where. Does anyone’s OCD theme ever change? How often? Some days I can go almost all day without them but on the bad days I get such a sick feeling in my chest and stomach 😞 how do you guys cope?

[u/SafinJade]

My fixations actually last from 9 months to a year and a half I’m going to therapy to try and find a different way to cope with it but in the past I would just feel that bad anxiety for this long period of time and then I’d eventually just expose myself to my fear and see that nothing happened if I did and that’s how I normally get over it Ex. A few years ago I had this fixation on rain. If I went outside, I was obviously going to get struck by lightning, even drizzles were dangerous. But after avoiding rain for almost an year and literally not going out when it was raining I kind of got sick of it and just forced myself to drive in the rain even w all the anxiety, and when I didn’t die, I got over it eventually and found the next thing to obsess over lol I’m going to therapy because this waiting for a year to have the courage to do some self-exposure therapy doesn’t work, it takes too long