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- 3y
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- 3y
In my experience, disagreeing with my ocd, means answer to my doubts positively! But the more I answered; the more I had to prove my answer was right, that means more questions about the answer! That lead to a circle of answer-doubts, that never stops! The only way to get out of this, for me, is don't answer!
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- 3y
Yup
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- 3y
Usually the way to go about it for me is not interacting with the thoughts, not answering nor reacting. It’s all about time and bei being persistent, the peak of anxiety will eventually go down and to prevent it from happening again I often go exercising or do other things that require a lot of concentration and energy, body and brain related. You got this :)!
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- 3y
Anytime you do something to resist or ignore your OCD, it will fight back and throw a tantrum. You will feel worse before you feel better. Its normal and it will pass.
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- 18w
When I was a child, before I knew this was OCD, I struggled with constant "magical thinking" compulsions (don't step on the crack or mom's back will actually break, etc). When I later learned this was OCD, it almost immediately solved it. Any time I got a magical thought, I would say to myself "that's just an OCD thought. ignore it." and it just stopped coming! Like seriously it fixed the magical thinking stuff forever. But of course the OCD has resurfaced in other ways. So naturally, I've tried to use the same strategy since I had so much success with it previously. But I wonder sometimes if telling myself "that's just OCD" is almost functioning as a reassurance compulsion? I hate how meta this gets. For example, I have ROCD that comes and goes. So sometimes I'll get a thought like "what if i'm still in love with my ex?" and then I'll tell myself "that's obviously just an ROCD thought" and will feel relief, almost like reassurance. But it comes back. So is telling myself that it's OCD a reassurance compulsion ?? It's just so weird because it worked so perfectly as a kid with the magical thinking thing.
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- 17w
I feel like my Rocd has become more sophisticated. It’s made me feel as if my healthy loving boyfriend is this terrible person. Or I’ll be thinking to myself like “I love him”, and in middle thought I get “no you don’t”. It’s convinced me that our values and beliefs are just TOO different (we’ve only disagreed on one thing in our relationship, but we talk it out). It’s like my ocd is clinging on to every reason why I should break up, like I don’t want this anymore, even tho I do! It’s frustrating. And the idea of doing erp terrifies me. Because I’m afraid if I do erp statements, that I’ll agree with them. Can someone give insight
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- 16w
should i be doing erp instead of repeating again and again "none of that shits real. none of that shits real. none of that shits real" ? i can’t tell if it makes it better or not
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