you know the saying “fake it til you make it” where you fake and pretend like ur confident and then you actually end up becoming confident could you do the same with ocd? act like it’s not affecting you at all and that you don’t care even though you do and then you’ll get to a point where you aren’t faking about not caring anymore and you actually don’t care?

I think that's the goal with ERP; eventually, you reach a state where you're not as panicked about your obsessions anymore. It takes a lot of faking it, though. I wish I had had therapy back when I had OCD more severely - I think it would have been of more benefit and I wouldn't have struggled as much as I did.

Yes, that’s what I try to do! I try to pretend to not care about the obesssions anymore until I actually don’t care.

It actually kinda works, as long as it isn't a compulsion disguised as this.

that was my question haha i wanna do it and pretend it doenst effect me until i get to a point where i’m not pretending and it doesn’t effect me but i don’t want it as a compulsion so i was just wondering