Purely obsessional OCD

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I was wondering if anyone on here has mostly obsessional ocd with little to no compulsions. Ive brought up the idea of having ocd on here before and i later ditched the idea. Recently I went on seroquel which managed to shut my brain up for once. It was only then I realized how much I obsess over things and I beat my problems to death with my obsessiveness. Does anyone else have ocd where its purely obsessional and little/no compulsions?

I am pretty much obsessional, though I do have my compulsions, like tapping, singing and counting in fours or tens. but I obsess over everything.

hi
are you referring to obsessive thinking, as opposed to repetitive physical actions ?

i feel you can have ocd in the form of repetitive thinking of topics, rehashing events

others tell me this is ruminating or a result of anxiety.

i also have physical ocd at times under stress. i feel the same massaging sensation in my brain with physical and mental ocd actions. i have even been able to shut out stressful anxiety type mental obsessive thinking by reading new subjects

then i was obsessed with quantum mechanics, repeatedly rethinking items in QM. wake up to it, i found it interesting as i normally ebsess over social interactions, but was able to get the same feeling with QM obsessive thinking. like a hamster on a wheel but in a mental sense.

it is like my brain tries to figure out new topics in the background, while i do other tasks. it can be interesting, or very debilitating if i get obsessing about non-productive items. like what ppl meant by things they say. which is not productive.

alan

I have had what you have listed in the past: intrusive thoughts and images without the need to perform a designated action to quell them. I used to see bloodied images of people that I knew, or images of myself inflicting injury to them in violent fashion; sometimes it got as bad as me seeing myself cannibalizing them. To make matters worse, I have AS, and in this way each image was accurate to the most intricate and fine detail: every drop of blood, or tear of the skin, or exposed bone was all included in these truly gruesome images. I used to refer to it as "the madness," when I considered it internally, but to this day have never told anyone whom I know personally about it. I am not even a violent person, and I could not figure out what was wrong with me. With my rant complete, I would like to finish in saying that you are not alone (whoever you are), and that it will, in all odds, pass.