- Username
- jami3_fletch
- Date posted
- 529d ago
- Sexual Orientation OCD
Celebrate how well you’ve done so far rather than this minor set back! You will get back one track, remember all that you’ve been taught and use those skills again and you will get there!! You’re doing well, don’t worry.
I would say to try your best to not analyze by placing your attention elsewhere as it can lead to emotional reasoning. It really begins with consistently practicing foundational steps whatever that looks like for you. Educating yourself, learning with a NOCD therapist, attending webinars, etc. I read an article yesterday by a Dr. Greenberg about rumination and it really covers how even asking things like this are typically forms of rumination and analyzing. So instead how about you sit with the doubt, discomfort, anxiety, and get back to whatever it is you were doing before. Were you reading, eating, exercising?… good, go and do something for yourself, not to avoid thoughts…but to focus on what actually matters to you.