Harm OCD & Intrusive Thoughts: Understanding and Overcoming the Fear of Causing Harm

Thanks , great advice .

Love these episodes

thank you for making these videos. the weight your words carry is immense and helped me more than i can describe when i was in that deep pit of suffering. just thank you 💛

I think Ive always had some form of OCD since I was little. Though these intrusive thoughts are new. Some days I can pass these thoughts by other times not. I’ll get there eventually.. thankyou for your thoughts

Very helpful!!! thank you so much!

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Talk about a living hell in your head, they can never get the meds right either

Mine are terrifying and really strong

Its not always what if. It is just do it just do this. Its terrible

I hope what I experience is harm OCD cause I was scared of the possibility of losing all control and becoming a serial killer. My mind is so fucked up. It gets real bad when I'm really pissed off and would have no filter and such brutal stuff of how I would want to get rid of someone but for some reason would even say the stuff to certain close people. I don't know if it's OCD cause I thought it was just thoughts and not losing control when angry and saying extremely intrusive stuff.

Thanks 🙏 you save me 😢i really thought that I'm bad human being that's why I am having these kind of thoughts

Im so relieved that others are going through these issues. I left so alone i was so bad i ended up checking into a hospital after watching an episode of Law and Order. I dont remember things always being this way. But god im so grateful for peopke like you posting these videos your saving my life ❤️

Thank you!

Im in Russia. Have had ocd my entire life,have many kids, my youngest ,newest , been no sleep for months, he sleeps , I cant..lately having intrusive thoughts about him...ive never hit a child,so Im shocked, no, shocked aint the word..
and it is what if..what if...

Wow, i go thru the whole ,what if i did this,this would happen,wife divorces me, never see son again,die alone...

I have intrusive thougts about others harming or wanting to harm me. Or that objects shall harm me, or that i harm myself on my surroundings. It is as if i self harm with only mind. I am fearful of all. Is this this the same category as intrusive thoughts according to psychology?

It's to constant to be intrusive. And i do not relly mind or fear them. But they hurt in my body and i would like to replace them with trust.

I'm 17 and I have had Noticeable Harm-OCD thoughts [ranging from Harming and sexual thoughts] since I was 7 I finally told someone about them when I was 13 and got them under control when I was 15, a little after I turned 17 last year I learned that Harm-OCD was a fairly normal thing among people with OCD and I cried, Tears of Relief that I wasn't a bad person and I wasn't Alone in my fight that many other people and I were struggling with something we didn't understand yet, and I am glad you all have that same Relief that you aren't bad people too now.

my form is that by thinking of a bad thing that i will somehow cause it or trigger an evil person to cause them harm and that’s how i cause the harm by doing the thinking the thought itself is the harm 😢

Beautiful, Matt. Thank you.

I have recently getting thoughts of harming people and i feel like a bad person and i had recently gotten out of the MH and php and im a young person, this has REALLY been stressing me out. Im going to tell my therapist even though im nervous.

Great video! You explain harm ocd in a way that is easy to understand and relate to. I’m looking forward to watching more of your videos.

Being stuck in the loop feels like absolute mental torture Especially when it’s about someone you love… it also feels like the loop just intensifies and the thoughts become more and more frequent.

I developed thie after pregnancy. My brain has intrusive thoughts about hurting my children in gruesome ways. I feel so sick and disgusted from this. 😢