Does OCD only attack things u value?

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It’ll attack anything you give attention to.

It's easy to look at someone else's theme & think, "Hey, that doesn't sound so bad. I wish I could have that OCD instead of [insert whatever theme bothers you the most]." I'm guilty of thinking this honestly. But I also know that whatever OCD themd someone has feels like the worst & scariest theme. It's all subjective & relative. The values that might be behind contamination OCD or order/symmetry OCD can be the same values someone with relationship OCD or harm OCD might experience: a sense of safety & control. I think a lot of the core values we experience with different themes can be the same--OCD just uses different masks for different people depending on what where that value might be most salient in their life.

Contamination OCD does begin to effect things you love. There are extreme circumstances where people may not even leave their room because of it. It literally effects every part of live and things that are loved/valued. Say someone is a nurse and starts dealing with it, it could be career ending for them. It’s a very devastating theme.

Basically.. Think about it like this… If you don’t value something there can be no anxiety about it because you dont care about it Ex.. You don’t have ocd about winning a million dollars because there’s nothing scary about that But you will get ocd about losing a million dollars because not losing a million dollars is something you’d value (assuming you had a million dollars) “Dang i might win a million dollaes

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Ignore the last sentence with “dang” lol