NeverGiveUp
- Date posted
- 2y ago
bunniesncheesecakebunniesnchee...
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Ack--it is so frustrating and so true!! OCD overrides logic at every turn. It hates the truth, because the truth hurts IT. Let's say your OCD makes you worried you're going to go crazy and murder someone because you accidentally hurt a small animal once. Your OCD thrives on your attention--if you knew the TRUTH, that you really ARE a harmless and well-meaning person, the OCD would shrivel up right away. So it's trying to block you from logical reasoning. I know that is an obvious thing anyway, but that's just what I was thinking!
NicaNica
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Because mental illnesses aren’t logical.
tulipomaniatulipomania
- Date posted
- 2y ago
When you play logic with OCD and give it a million “logical” answers, you’re going into a spiral! It’s part of the compulsion; find every logical answer possible, confront your OCD and it’ll fix the problem, right? Nah. It will certainly not because wants MORE. It’s like a thought-eating Cookie Monster… so what I do is say “okay let’s think of 3 logical reasons” for whatever is happening, and ONLY ALLOW MYSELF to think of 3, and every time I try to think of more (because my OCD wants to eat up those thoughts and demand MORE to reassure itself of certainty), I redirect back to the three I originally came up with, whatever they were. It’s helpful:) so if you okay logic, don’t let it spiral into a compulsion. It won’t help if it’s an endless list of endless reasons you’re taking up time to find in order to quell the thought. Isn’t 2 logical answers enough!? *ugh!!*
Lukej91Lukej91
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Because the fear part of the brain doesn't operate within the logical part of the brain
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Anonymous
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- 14w ago
How do you stop OCD before it starts
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Anonymous 25#
- Date posted
- 10w ago
When?
Can someone please tell me at what point did you finally accept that it’s OCD? When did the ERP click for you? When did you just stop buying into the lies of OCD and finally let go? Like what does it take. It’s been 2 years of this for me and I’m in ERP currently and it’s just not clicking 😣 is it just me???
Ok_Paint758
- Date posted
- 10w ago
Is telling myself "it's just ocd" a compulsion?
When I was a child, before I knew this was OCD, I struggled with constant "magical thinking" compulsions (don't step on the crack or mom's back will actually break, etc). When I later learned this was OCD, it almost immediately solved it. Any time I got a magical thought, I would say to myself "that's just an OCD thought. ignore it." and it just stopped coming! Like seriously it fixed the magical thinking stuff forever. But of course the OCD has resurfaced in other ways. So naturally, I've tried to use the same strategy since I had so much success with it previously. But I wonder sometimes if telling myself "that's just OCD" is almost functioning as a reassurance compulsion? I hate how meta this gets. For example, I have ROCD that comes and goes. So sometimes I'll get a thought like "what if i'm still in love with my ex?" and then I'll tell myself "that's obviously just an ROCD thought" and will feel relief, almost like reassurance. But it comes back. So is telling myself that it's OCD a reassurance compulsion ?? It's just so weird because it worked so perfectly as a kid with the magical thinking thing.
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