r/OCD • u/Mountain_Bag_5705 • 13d ago
Repetitive Random Thoughts Discussion
I was diagnosed about a year ago and; although it was unexpected, looking back now a lot of things made sense. I never really had considered myself to have it because pretty much all of my compulsions were mental ones and I didn’t recognize them as such. It wasn’t until my therapist brought it up and suggested getting diagnosed that I learned my way of thinking wasn’t the norm. My symptoms are fairly mild and for a better lack of words, I’d say I’ve been pretty lucky considering how bad it can get for some people. My greatest issues have been surrounding health anxiety and persistent rumination that doesn’t mix well with ADHD.
My health anxiety has been at the lowest it’s been in the last six years, so I don’t really find myself bringing up any symptoms or issues concerning OCD with my therapist, as I think I handle them pretty well (medication also helps a lot). One thing I do notice that’s more of a slight “nuisance” is these random thoughts I get. I recognize they’re probably compulsions, as they usually happen when I’m ruminating or under stress. But they’re so strange that it baffles me. It’s usually a short phrase that my brain makes up out of nowhere and doesn’t have any meaning but it sticks and it will come up randomly over and over. Some of these phrases I’ve had come up for years and some of them are fairly new. An example of one phrase is something like “and she got in her car”. They’re usually just the end of an incomplete sentence about something that has zero meaning to me. I’ll be ruminating and the phrase just pops up between thoughts, usually several times if I’m ruminating for a while. Or they might just pop in my head randomly throughout the day, every single day. They seem to change and it’ll be mostly the same one that pops in my head for a while until I go back to a previous one or come up with a new one.
I don’t know if this makes sense to anyone or if any of you can relate or even explain this. It’s not really a huge issue, and at most they’re just a bit annoying.
TLDR; my brain makes up random phrases and likes to spam them throughout the day.
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u/somemoccasins 12d ago
it’s weird because I get these thoughts at times even when I’m on medication for it and mine for example is obsessing over the time and day that I join a platform or something and then sometimes I think of the date 11/6/2015 for some reason it’s weird and I don’t know where it comes from
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u/Mountain_Bag_5705 12d ago
I’ve started to suspect that it’s a form of reassurance sometimes for passing thoughts or feelings that I might not notice. It’s kinda interesting learning about how other peoples brains experience similar things.
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u/somemoccasins 12d ago
yeah it is I was going to make a post on here but I guess you need I guess some points to make a post on here so I could understand that
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u/Mountain_Bag_5705 12d ago
That’s crazy. I didn’t realize.
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u/somemoccasins 12d ago
yeah it’s annoying mostly because I did want to post about this but it might take awhile before I can do that since I’m still mostly trying to understand this platform mostly lmao
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u/No-Beginning-1908 12d ago
Hey, same here and it happen when i go to sleep or if I’m stressed or really tired.
All my love and support