I feel like my OCD gives me this need to dig around and find answers and it can cause me to just live inside my head for hours, even days on end. I found this article and it’s helped me a lot so I thought I would share it here: https://drmichaeljgreenberg.com/how-to-stop-ruminating/
How's your progress? I noticed that mine becomes meta and I always go back to ruminating on how not to ruminate.
I hear you, because I feel like our OCD tries to reroute us back into that mindset of trying to do something. I try to remind myself of this quote: “Remember that ruminating is doing something, and not ruminating is not doing it. If someone says they’re not ruminating but it requires effort, that tells us that they are doing something, which indicates a flaw in their approach. Not ruminating needs to feel like getting off of a treadmill, not getting onto one.”
I tried repeating mantras like that but it became another compulsion for me >_<