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It's just sometimes it's hard to tell if thoughts are intrusive or not, or if i have been fighting for so long that i start to think about it unintrusivley but still dont like the thoughts
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Ya thing that sucks is even when you feel certain and good you always have that feeling of doubt or that voice in your head that tells you otherwise
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That's pretty hard sometimes. The feelings is like my ocd tells me im gay when im not and i have no anxiety but it feels real but its not something i want. I just sit there and go okay maybe. I dont really care at this point. At the same time i want to care
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I want to start trying to exercise. I know that's good for dopamine levels. Just trying to distract myself is hard. Im ADHD diagnosed so im constantly thinking all the time and constantly moving
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As you get better at accepting "thoughts are just thoughts", recognizing some uncertainty and letting them go... your thinking will get clearer and you'll get better at recognizing "normal" cognition from OCD thinking. OCD intrusive thoughts are the "noise", if over time you learn to recognize the noise for what it is, you will be able to detect the true "signal".
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I see a lot of posts and comments here along the lines of... "the thoughts/urges aren't you -- they're just OCD." Though this is often true and comforting, isn't this just a form of reassurance? The way to beat OCD is by accepting that the distressing thoughts MAY be true/real, a.k.a. "from you" or "not just OCD." By brushing distressing things off as "just OCD," you excuse the thoughts and therefore feel reassured. Obviously it is good to be aware of what OCD does to you and know when you're experiencing a spiral, but crediting all distressing thoughts to OCD is a way of finding certainty about them. What do you guys think of this? Am I right or wrong? This is just the way I think about it, but I see the "this is just OCD" thing so much on here and I often wonder if that is a form of reassurance.
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I've been told a lot that in order to get better, we need to tolerate uncertainty, which yea I get that and I'm trying every day more and more to reach that point!! But I've also been told that we need to tolerate uncertainty AND "our worst fears becoming true". Like how does that work, especially with POCD, OCD about a///ault, SA and all of that? Like that is really difficult for me and I don't really understand how I'm supposed to just shrug stuff like that off
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With ocd can the thoughts themselves feel entirely true???? Or is it just the narrative around the thought that feels true/real?
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