Patients with OCD may suffer inappropriate aggressive thoughts. These intrusive thoughts are violent that may cause harm to others as well as to the patient himself. These may include the imaginations of jumping off from a very high building that may lead to suicide attempts. Studies show that there are high percentages of inappropriate aggressive thoughts to college students, especially to teenagers. They have the thoughts of afflicting and hurting other people especially their schoolmates and teachers, doing harm to children, animals and those inferior to them and worse the thought of killing them. Punishing or torturing someone also pop in their thoughts.
Thoughts are a nature of human beings and they should remain and never acted upon because they can be dangerous more than we'll ever expect. Though they should remain as thoughts alone, still they must be managed well and better be avoided.
Another is unsuitable or inappropriate sexual thoughts. Individuals having sexual obsessions experience recurring and irresistible thoughts and images of kissing, touching, petting and even the sexual intercourse with anybody including strangers, friends, classmates and any other people who may enter their thoughts. This usually occurs when the patient is having an identity crisis, having doubts of his identity and his gender. Individuals experiencing these sexual thoughts may experience so much shame and fear that their thoughts may happen. They are afraid that they might have the urge to these thoughts with others and so as experiencing stress on how to deal with their obsessions together with the persons present in their thoughts. There are therapies available for these inappropriate sexual thoughts that may help them in accepting the images created in their minds so as to prevent them from acting the thoughts.
Blasphemous religious thoughts can also enter an OCD's mind and make him obsessed with it. This happens when certain images of religious patrons enter the thoughts of an individual and he finds it so hard to stop thinking of them. Four out of ten Obsessive Compulsive patients are having blasphemous religious thoughts. Common blasphemous religious thoughts that patients may experience are the fears of reciting prayers incorrectly, persistent thoughts of being possessed, unnecessary or bad thoughts and images when praying which are so disturbing, sexual thoughts with regard to religious patrons including the Creator and Mary, His mother, or the desire to say blasphemous words or do blasphemous acts especially while having religious activities or other related matters. Experiencing these thoughts can greatly affect the OCD individual because they see themselves as sinners.
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