I doubt your therapist will think your crazy, I had a weird obsession that is similar to yours, I was constantly aware of my bones and my body movements, and felt really scared and weird inside my own body. But once u start obsessing about something else the thoughts will go on it's own, but you just have to accept them in your head and the images, they keep popping up because your afraid of them, once u stop fearing them and don't pay them any attention, they'll go away :)
Hello sarah 1277,
thank you for being so honest! I 2 have strange images pop in my mind from time to time. seems similar to you in that way, comes and go's can be few weeks a random day night time, relaxing...what ever.
It really freaks me out just makes my skin crawl...not cool.
started searching for answers myself. again don't seem to fit typical OCD symptoms. its not a fear not a case of i"ll do this 10 times to make it better, theres not allot I can do...more like
( Hell no thats just fekin wrong! makes my body feel physically uncomfortable at the thought of it)
just to give u a vibe its more like them fogs u see on wild life programs that give berth under there skin,
things like that really freak me out and get stuck in my head, some how my wonderful mind coverts it to myself thus feeling physically uncomfortable.
I have no answers as of yet. Started you tubing things like
How to get rid of unwonted thoughts. Seems like the advice so far is to be okay with it? not to give it too much attention. kind of hard not to lol.
I would defiantly speak to you therapist about it I don't think she/he would think your crazy or that it is enough to have you sent to the looney bin!.
I hope you manage to solve it! it really is fekin annoying to say the least! xx :)
sarah, I had these horrible intrusive images also in my thirties, and worse, it is ocd, if it was something else you wouln't have doubts about the thoughts.You would beleive them without a doubt. Prozac helped me comepletely.
Thanks for your response. I aprreciate you offering some suggestions. I don't think it has anything to do with "Body Dysmorphia" though. I don't believe that my head actually looks this way, so I don't think this is to do with my appearance, sometimes the thought or picture of a scalp made of tiny bones just pops into my mind and I think, what if it did look this way? But I know it's not real, however the thought is disturbing to me because I find it so grotesque and abnormal and I'm horrified that such an image could enter my head and then I start to worry what it means about me as a person. On the outside I am happy with my appearance. I consider myself a normally attractive person and I don't look in the mirror and feel bad about my looks. If anything I feel pretty good about my appearance most of the time. I appreciate the response though and you trying to offer help and suggestions. I think I'm really looking for support to see if anyone else on here has grotesque images in their mind that aren't based on any kind of reality and that trouble them as much as this thought troubles me. I wish I could let it go, and sometimes I can, but I don't think it's normal at all and just need to know that someone else has some similar thoughts and pictures in their mind and how they deal with them.
You might want to look up the term "body dysmorphia". That is a misperception of how one views their body and it can often be part of ocd. If you experience any form of intrusive or unwarranted thoughts it would be worthwhile to speak to a psychiatrist about it and that might be one issue you would want to ask about.