Can ocd thoughts be statements which feels factual

But my OCD thoughts are telling its not even uncertain, it 100% factual. Love doesn't exist. And it wants me to search for atleast a small possibility that love exist so I can have a 50/50% scenario which I currently don't have. It's attacking uncertainty itself. Playing the role of actuality, and there's no room to believe in uncertainty because it's a fact. And it feels so true that it's a fact. Please help

@Karimbaradei4 I struggle with this same thing. My themes are existential/mental health related and my OCD likes to throw out all the reasons why I should be worried about my existence or mental health. I’ve found that for me the compulsion is catastrophizing/adding meaning to those OCD fears and then trying everything in my power to convince myself otherwise. For example, my OCD likes to say, “if you can develop dementia, what if that means you don’t exist?” I then start catastrophizing and believing that thought is true and ruminate to disprove it. So for you, maybe your OCD is saying, “what if love doesn’t exist?” And your compulsion is catastrophizing that thought to the worst possible conclusion in which you believe it and want more than anything to disprove it. For me, the key was realizing that I was making it worse by catastrophizing my OCD thoughts. Not sure if that helps or not. But with practice it becomes so much better.

@Phillip91 My brain tend to find everything on the internet, theories, mental excersice to prove to me that the thought is factual. Then I will spend all day, trying to atleast make love slightly possible to feel good. It's vicious cycle where thoughts become factual and not a "what if questions". My brain wants to make me believe it's a fact and to behave in a life where love doesn't where exist. Whenever I say no, my brain tells me stop lying to yourself, you are not smarter than all the evidence I gave you. It always gets more and more evidence to prove to me its a fact and not just uncertain, it's 110% true. It's harsh. Any ideas how to handle that.

@Phillip91 Also I want to add, that my brain tends to remove all the chances that love does exists, makes me believe that I don't have a slight probability. It also makes me question what probability means, and then I go spending hours researching what probability, possibility, plausibility means on the internet and see if it fits with my sense of love. It's driving me mad

@Karimbaradei4 Totally relate with my theme. What also helped me was realizing my brain was sending a false alarm that there was a huge problem when in reality everything was fine. The fear center of your brain is constantly reminding you that love doesn’t exist because it knows love is so important to you. It’s trying to protect you from something that you don’t need protection from. That’s what makes it feel so real. I’m afraid of flying, and every time I get on a plane I think about everything that could go wrong to the point where it “feels” like it’s going to go wrong. When in reality I’m always fine. Your OCD makes you “feel” like love doesn’t exist because you’re so afraid of it. Try to learn to ignore those false alarms by doing exactly what your OCD doesn’t want you to do - love. Watch movies about love, tell people you love them, love your head off haha. And eventually your brain will stop sending you those false signals and feelings.

@Phillip91 What if it made me remember lots of theories and evidence about love not existing, how can I ground myself with what I feel and what feels real to me

@Karimbaradei4 The word “theory” encapsulates the problem perfectly. To ground yourself try to remember you’re afraid of a theory. It’s not a fact. There’s probably just as much evidence to disprove your fear, your OCD is just not concerned with it because it wants to ensure that you only think of the negative possibilities in order to protect you. Even if it were true, the problem wouldn’t be that love doesn’t exist, the problem is your OCD’s preoccupation with reminding you that and then how you choose to act because of that fear. For example, everyone dies - but unless you have a certain OCD theme, most people aren’t going around terrified and thinking about death 24/7. They accept it as reality and move on. So whether love exists or not isn’t the problem - the problem is devoting your life to the fear that it may not exist. You can choose to live your life as if it does or does not - that’s up to you.

@Phillip91 But then my ocd start questioning can you choose to do something that doesn't exist. Like choosing to make a giraffe happen infront of you. It can latch on anything. My method is just not ruminating, it automatically grounds me in the present and the now which is what's real to me.