Depression often results if this pattern is frequently repeated.
Unhelpful POCD Coping Efforts Distraction Either out of calm strategizing or outright panic, someone with POCD may decide to focus their attention on something totally unrelated to the obsessive thought, image or impulse.
I then started having mild intrusive thoughts about children — worrying to me, but not as harmful as they eventually got- but then one day.
During the bad phases, I knew one thing.