does anyone find that sometimes reassurance can push you in the right direction? i got reassurance in the sense that i knew for a fact something i worried about wasn’t true so then afterwards i disregarded and i feel great. i decided not to analyse it and leave it be and it feels better

For sure!! I think reassurance when one truly doesn't know if something should be worried about or not is very helpful (even necessary? in my opinion!) I think it's only not helpful when it becomes repetitive, where someone get the reassurance they need but continues asking over and over. Also as long as we are still on the lookout to acknowledge and ignore intrusive thoughts then we are still overcoming ocd.

Yes!!! But it takes a lot for me to really believe it and fight it. That’s amazing you were able to do that and leave it be!

Yea I’ve def felt that way before. There are actually obsessions which have completely disappeared for me after reassurance and someone sharing an objective/logical perspective. Just like one medicine doesn’t work for everyone, reassurance isn’t bad in every case. The conclusion that reassurance is bad came from research which is based on scientific theories and hypotheses, not a scientific law. Which means that there can be exceptions to the rule^_^

Reassurance can works in short periods of time, mostly in the beggining of the disorder. But the thought will be back because your behaviour over that doesn't change. With time, reassurance just makes everything worse and you start to loose all sense of control in your life.

In most cases:) It’s been 3 years since the obsession I was talking about disappeared.

Don't trust reassurance. Is just common that if you have an obsession with some theme that is stronger than the others, you keep worrying about it more than the others. For example, I suffer soocd, so I can't really get contamination ocd at all. Or any other type of ocd, even if all of them start with the same behaviours and make you feel like shit anyway. You have your obsession to fight. And is normal that with treatment you can overcome other negative thoughts easily.