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- 3y
Mental compulsions
How do you stop yourself from engaging in mental compulsions??
How do you stop yourself from engaging in mental compulsions??
Good question... Its happening before I even realize it. Its like my default mode.
Same for me! It just automatically happens
Super hard to control the mind. I have a comeback to every trigger. They’ve built up for a while before I sought treatment so maybe it’ll take a little longer
The moment you catch yourself doing it, immediately stop and do something else that’s more productive. If you are about to do a mental compulsion, take a few deep breaths and sit with the feelings.
I need help on this as well! I feel like it’s the only thing holding me back from getting better
I just try to distract and do something productive. It can be hard to do at first of course. I guess the ideal is do nothing.
I need help on this too
Listen to rumination is a compulsion podcast by Michael greenberg on ocd stories
Read the book Brain lock
Yes
I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!
So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
I cannot for the life of me stop ruminating or checking how I feel about thoughts or focusing on thoughts or creating more thoughts. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I want to scream. I try not to ruminate about the thoughts, but trying not to just makes me think about them more. I try not to check, but somehow, I still check. I want to let a thought sit in the background, but the more I try not to focus on it, the more I end up focusing on it. I don’t want the thought to expand because that feels like engaging with it, but I can’t just stop it from expanding. It feels impossible. People keep saying I’m in control of my compulsions, and maybe that’s true for the physical ones. But when it comes to the mental compulsions, I swear I have no control. It feels like I’m missing something that everyone else seems to have, like there’s some tool they’re using that I don’t have. Controlling mental compulsions has never felt possible for me. I’m starting to fear them. And every time someone says I’m in control and can just choose not to do them, I end up beating myself up even more when they happen. Or when I *choose* I guess. I don’t know anymore. If this is my fault, if I’m responsible for this, then what does that make me? I feel like a monster. I am at my wits’ end. How am I supposed to control mental compulsions when it feels like they control me? I freak out when they happen. They don’t bring me relief, they just make me panic. I want it to stop so bad.
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