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Kayla asked in HealthMental Health · 6 years ago

Can you have intrusive thoughts without an anxiety disorder?

I have these horrible intrusive thoughts and they're ruining my life. But i haven't been diagnosed with a disorder, so i'm worried they're real.

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  • 6 years ago

    This could be a form of OCD called Pure-O. It's like ocd but without visible compulsions. It's characterized by intrusive thoughts and obbsesing over them. Then something called ruminating which is like a compulsion to try to get rid of these thoughts. One example would be a violent intrusive thought, you see someone and think "what if I ran up behind them and slit their throat" then you obsessing over this thought think crazy things like "am I a serial killer?" Then the ruminating part would be you looking up traits of serial killers online to make sure your not one.

    Is this sort of what happens to you?

    Sorry I didn't explain that to well it's kind of complicated but maybe do some read etch online of Pure-O

    Source(s): Personal experience/research
  • 6 years ago

    Prayer will help you get vrid of those intrusive thoughts

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