NeverGiveUp
- Date posted
- 3y
bunniesncheesecakebunniesnchee...
- Date posted
- 3y
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
- 3y
Because mental illnesses aren’t logical.
tulipomaniatulipomania
- Date posted
- 3y
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
- 3y
Because the fear part of the brain doesn't operate within the logical part of the brain
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Anonymous
- Date posted
- 25w
A question
I'm wondering... if the mechanism repeats itself with other themes then it can't be OCD, right? Mainly because once you figure out the mechanism, things go back to normal. Is this a sign or maybe I'm just fooling myself?
Anonymous
- Date posted
- 21w
Help please 🙏
Guys, does isolating yourself from society make OCD worse? Because I go out these days and I feel like my questions are illogical. Because it seems that alone, everything becomes bigger. It seems that we disregard everything. So something that you would or wouldn't do doesn't seem to have an answer because you don't consider the other. Is this real? Because for example, one question is whether I would take advantage of someone. But the question is, does that someone exist? It's not something that's in my head. In real life, we're all human and you see them that way. So your debt is answered with no. Because that's how you are, when placed in society. You would only do some harm if you didn't consider this, but that would be your values, right? So OCD asks some questions that disregard things, right?
Tony Davies
- Date posted
- 18w
Question
Why is it that you beat one OCD think, but another OCD thing comes up related to it, but the same theme?
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