I am FED UP with this obsession now and listening to the erp. How long does it take for your brain to realise it is a load of RUBBISH and it is all in your head??????? I feel I can't keep doing this. My anxiety is going down but I am getting angry with what the erp is saying to me now but still BELIEVE it.....when will this end? I have had moments of clarity but it doesnt last......please help

Last time I had it it went away in about 2 months it was the most misrable 2 months of my life honestly but i think it will get better i just had my first after exactly one year of feeling fine and its been a misrable week and a half

I know it’s terrible but we gotta hope it goes away one day

R u powering it up some how through reassurance, avoidance, or checking? Sounds like ERP is doing it’s job cause anxiety is down. To get rid of the obsession you have to ignore it and dwell on it. At least that is how I understand it.

*NOT dwell on it

Thank you. Yes all of my other obsessions have gone away eventually and when I have done erp. I am just fed up of waiting for it to go now. I have had this obsession for 3 months now and the last ine I had probably for about 4 or 5 months on and off. It was a scary one like they all are but this current one is just crazy. The people who helped me out of my last one 2 years ago are now the focus of my current obsession!! And this is all due to Covid and my views....they fell out with me because of my views on Covid but almost straight away I got anxiety and the OCD said it is because of that....needless to say the thoughts that have follwed are very intrusive and upsetting but I just cant seem to get out of it. I have had all of these scenarios in my head that they have told people about my intrusive thoughts i had two years ago and that THEY believed them!! It is just soooooooooo ridiculous. They read up about OCD and even said that they worried like me when I told them my thoughts back then....the OCD has just TWISTED AND TWISTED it to make me believe that they really thought my thoughts 2 years ago were real.....it is just bonkers but it wont leave my head

Probably through some reassurance now actually thinking about it this week! It is soooo hard though isnt it? You just think...i will just reassure myself a little bit....then it gets worse! I hate OCD so much but I do know that this obsession will go....it is weird because a few weeks before I got this obsession I thought to myself that I dont think I could have another obsession any more ......then BAM! This one came on!

Yes OCD pays attention. I had two great weeks, the best I have had in 10 months. Then I could feel it coming on and started doing a few reassurances and now it’s full fledged OCD in less than a week