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- 3y ago
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- Date posted
- 3y ago
This can definitely be super distracting! Your brain is probably trying to figure something out in that moment, or trying to reduce our discomfort in some form or fashion. "trying to figure it out" is usually a red flag/warning sign for rumination of some sort. Instead of mentally engaging with or trying to figure out the answers to those questions, try to just bring yourself back to the present moment - reading whatever it is that you are studying. You will feel the irritating urge to keep drifting away to ruminate but with continued practice and determination you can keep learning this new habit.
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Thanks for the great advice
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- 18w ago
Anyone struggle with this with having ocd?
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- 13w ago
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
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- Date posted
- 8w ago
please i need someone to share experiences... - that a certain facial expression of a person to whom ocd is attached causes a lot of thoughts that are connected to that facial expression, and that the images in your head are very detailed, and that they have a sound, words, and that you have a feeling of some kind of crawling from the groin all over your body?
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