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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!

Because mental illnesses aren’t logical.

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!!*

Because the fear part of the brain doesn't operate within the logical part of the brain