- Date posted
- 3y
What if I really don't have a compulsion?
All OCD treatment seems to revolve around avoiding your compulsions and teaching your brain that nothing terrible will happen if you don't do them. That's fine for the thoughts and worries I have that *do* have compulsions, but some of my worst intrusive thoughts don't seem to have a compulsion to go with them. I just sit there thinking obsessively about my loved ones dying and how I'll feel and what I'll do, but I don't have a way of stopping the thoughts, not even things like praying or pushing the thoughts away or telling myself to think about something else (I'm never able to drag my mind away from the bad thoughts anyway, so I kind of stopped trying). Does this mean it's not really OCD?