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Pam, you are so right yet again! Those of us who have this problem seem to dwell only on the negative, if we could only learn to focus that much thought on the positive, we would be better for it! I read somwhere that you should carve the good things in stone and the bad should be written in sand, where it can be blown or washed away! I'm working on this, thoughts are my biggest problem area!

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Nurseboy, Thanks to the comic relief, I particularly like this one. "i'd have more friends if i had multiple personalities." But it does prove your more sane than we think we are, still brings me back to the movie "What about Bob?" When Bill Murray says vile things and the doctor asks what he is doing, he says he is afraid of getting tourettes, so if he just acts that way, it will keep him from having it. But it comes off so comical.

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nurseboy , you are obviously very creative, you wouldn't be able to come up will all of those obesseive thoughts if you weren't creative. My doctor told me to take my creativity and do something constructive with it when I'm have crazy obessevive thoughts. For instance,I was terrified for awhile that I was going to go crazy and kill my kids like that woman who drowned her five kids did. I didn't tell my doctor about that for along time and when I finally did she laughed and said the next time you start freaking yourself out with that thought, say to yourself ,ell even though I'm having the thoughts about killing them I'm not going to do that right now, but I do have to make them dinner. What can I prepare for them that would be creative? That way my mind gets occupied and my creativity gets channeled into something positive. Everyone tells me I should be a shrink, but I could never do it, because I would take on the symptoms of everyone that comes into to my office for help. I think that's called residency snydrome. Maybe you have something similar to that now. Your job is very stressful, not only is it physically hard it is mentally and emotionally draining. I think most people would not be able to handle it. You see alot of trauma and maybe all of your obessesions and fear is stemming from what you do all day,maybe your mind feels better dealing with the I'm gonna go crazy or get schizophrenia thoughts rather then thinking about the little kid who has cancer or was in a car crash. Just a thought , but I've got to say I have alot of respect for you it takes a special person to do what you do.

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GREAT IDEA! You should be a shrink! I am a comedian when my ocd isn't stealing my real personality so i will try to make my obsessions funny. Like when i think of people naked (disturbing ocd thought) i will ...hmmm....i have to think about that one. when i fear i will become schizo, i should accept and tell myself, "that would be great, then i wouldn't have to work" and i'd have more friends if i had multiple personalities and if i was bipolar i couldn't be afraid to spend so much money (in my manic state)...i need to work on the funny images ..shouldn't be a problem as my mind is very visual. :eg:

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nurseboy ,the toga sounds like a great idea maybe it will catch on and become mandatory apparel for all protestants! But if you really stop and think about it that may be the perfect exposure therapy. If your fear is I can't go to church because I'm afraid I will panic and run out of the church screaming at the top of my lungs. You say, ok I'm going to wear this toga to church today along with these Gene Simmons platform shoes so at least I'll give everyone something funny to look at while I'm running around screaming when you do this you then take the fear out of your thought. If I'm going to the movies and I'm scared I'm going to panic in the middle and have to run outI'll make sure I wear my running sneakers so I can run faster. I'll bet money on the fact that if you plan out your worst case scenario and make it funny, the fear will go away.

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EXCELLENT point Pamela! Of all the thoughts i get, i let the disturbing ones stay and bother me. They are just thoughts. However they can be sooo energy and time consuming that we believe that they are valid thoughts. I think, they must be true because they are coming from my mind...just passing through. But all thoughts are not valid. and we have to remember that. Church is tomorrow and i am wearing toga!

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cooper and nurseboy, don't worry those things won't happen. They are just thoughts like all other thoughts that pass thru our minds. Isn't it funny how we can think of a million different things all day long , like the attractive person we work with and what it would be like to kiss them or what it must feel like to be a movie star or drive a race car in the indy 500 and we realize all of these thoughts are just that thoughts. They won't come true and we would never act on them(kissing or having an affair with someone).But once the thoughts turn negative we can't seem to seperate fact from fiction and we automatically freak out and think we will stand up in a crowded place and scream or take all of our clothes off at church and run around the pews ;)The negative thoughts are just like the positive ones it's how we respond to them that makes the difference.If we can just stay calm and remind ourselves that our thoughts aren't real our lives would be alot easier.

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hey COOPER! i do the same thing at work or in social situations or just in general. i feel like i am gonna lose control and scream and talk to myself and just GO NUTS! It's never happened though...yet.

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Sometimes when I am at the theater I get a strong whoosh over my body (as everyone is sitting there quietly waiting for the show to start), that I will not be able to control my body,and I will stand up and start screaming and shaking uncontrollably. The longer I am in my seat, seemingly trapped, the more my imagination takes over and then the sweating and hyperventilating starts until I have to get out of my seat and leave. It happens all the time. I've stopped buying tickets to shows unless I know I'm on the aisle.

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Hey Venik I've done that too! I've caused myself panic by imagining that their are spirits in my room. Once I was in a store and a little girl who was sitting in a back store room kept looking at me. I smiled at her and she just glared back, so instead of thinking what a little brat she must need a nap. I think, she must be evil maybe she's a ghost and will come to my home and haunt me. Whew have I read alot of stephen king novels or what? All of us who suffer from this disorder are very creative and need to learn that these thoughts are just that, thoughts. Because we think it doesn't make it true or real.

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