5. Repulsive Thoughts
The thoughts of an OCD patient are not just limited to fears and obsessions about keeping everything straight.
These thoughts may be downright disturbing in themselves, but it’s important to realize that they don’t really reflect on the personality of the thinker. This is important to understand for the sake of mental stability.
As an example, someone suffering from OCD could suddenly experience thoughts of a highly violent and even sexual nature. These could be offensive images, imaginary scenes, or just uncontrollable thoughts about something very repulsive.
It’s obvious that the person undergoing the pain of such thoughts would think that there’s something terribly wrong with them. For the most part, though, having these thoughts doesn’t mean that a person would actually follow them through.
However, there’s still no denying their disturbing effect. An OCD patient may have nightmares or experience other sleeping issues as a result.