Does anyone get over a thought but still feel the anxiety over it so you go back to the thought? If so, any tips for it? I’m desperate and tired 😓

Thank you! My compulsion is pretty much searching ocd post on Instagram it kind of calms me down. The intrusive thought I have is saying that I like one of my girl friends and it really triggers me because I’m in a happy loving relationship and I really don’t want anything with my friend, recently I imagined what it would be like if she got married and I’d actually be so happy for her! So why is my ocd saying this? It’s really distressing, but I got so used to feeling triggered when I’m reminded of her that It’s hard to stay calm with the anxiety that has been there for awhile

@Canelito1 I am not the greatest person to tell you advice but I can relate to you and tell you what I do to avoid these thoughts. I’ll have thoughts about a co-worker or my best friend or even just random people I’ll talk to like “what if I kissed her/him”, “what if they touch me”, “what if this, what if that” and then I’ll get an extreme anxiety over it becahse I’m also in a loving relationship and don’t want anything to do with anyone else. Like right now I’m freaking praying this TB test on my arm doesn’t react and my heart rate is racing and I’m seeking reassurance. Just know these are all thoughts and the more you push them away the harder they’ll come back. Keep yourself busy, don’t worry about these thoughts because you said so yourself you would never act on them, take your medication, drink some cold water, maybe take a shower/bath and ease your mind the best you can maybe even play a game! OCD attacks the people you love most and care about and even appears in dreams. I’m still struggling to this day about a dream I had years ago thinking “is that how I really feel?!” It’s hard, really freaking hard and it’s so easy to tell you to do this when I sometimes don’t even follow my own advice, but this is the joy of having OCD. Accept the thought, try to move on from it because in the end you know in your heart you’ll never react on it.

@KAD.98 My anxiety just creates different case scenarios, and it also triggers me darn ocd, but I know I really wouldn’t react on it because I really love my partner, sometimes I think maybe it’s not the thought I have right now that’s the problem, it might be something else because these past months I’ve had so many different thoughts related to ROCD, and each time I pick on things from the past to try to relive the thoughts, it’s been really hard, thank you so much for your words! I feel less alone, I hope I can get better I unfortunately I don’t take meds, I actually haven’t been diagnosed for ocd but I realized about two years ago that I had harm ocd, I eventually got tired of the thoughts and don’t trigger me but I definitely still get them, it took a long time tho