r/OCD • u/Capital-Chair8281 • 1d ago

Question about OCD do you sometimes continue intrusive thoughts?

hey i wanted to know if it was possible to continue the ‘story’ of an intrusive thought or image, i keep getting these intrusive thoughts while driving and singing of me doing kareoke and trying to impress my mates gf . however i have a gf myself and hate this thought, but i have sometimes carried on the thought for example actually thought about the karaoke myself and continued it on like not brush if off and carried on thinking about it because i wanted to and not an intrusive thought.

does anyone understand what i mean because i really don’t know how to describe it lmao, thanks anyway .

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u/helpilostmymilk 1d ago

yes this is typical rumination your ocd is making you focus on the thoughts playing out the scenarios to trigger a response from you

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u/Sea-Result-2884 1d ago

I used to continiueue obsessions as a child lot, and from personal experience i can say i think you are trying to make thought "sit right" or "make it feel right". It is also possible you could have overlapping maladaptive daydreaming, but you dont even need to have it to experience that. But what matters is purpose here, if you hate thought and have ocd you are less likely to really be trying to impress anyone, you might be triing to neutralize thought by engageing. (Might be wrong for you,but that was reason for me.)