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Don't stress it too much. I was watching a documentary about a women with D.I.D the other day and I startes worrying I was gonna get ocd about having D.I.D, I felt like a shift inside my brain but I immediately shut it off. The key is to not let it affect you otherwise it may become an obession
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how do you shut it off though?? i keep using self talk and stuff and it helps i guess. the thing is that i’m kinda worried that if i treat it like ocd and say “yup i’m trans” then it’ll turn into ocd, ya know?? so i’ve just been telling myself, “hey it’s ok. this is just a thought. that’s it. it’s not an emergency, there’s no need to be scared about it. these thoughts about becoming trans and it becoming ocd are welcome in your mind. you’re ok” i don’t even think about this until my brain forces me to think about it...if that makes sense lol. its not intrusive like my HOCD. i don’t get constant thoughts and i’m not always thinking about it. actually, i’m never thinking about it—except when i do. it’s so weird, i can be doing great and i haven’t thought about it once in however long and then my brain just goes “oops you forgot to think about this!” it’s so annoying. it’s like my brain WANTS me to think about it and REMINDS me to think about it ugh.
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One thing that helps with ocd is to either watch the thoughts pass and try to no react or label them or ignore them. Since it's not constant it's not an obession, so when it pops out you gotta observe it as if it was a cloud passing by. Remember ocd feeds off fear the less you react the better it goes. I relate to last part a lot and one thing that I've learnt is that the sooner you let these thoughts be the quicker your mind will get bored of them
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thank you so much!! ur such a big help
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No worries :) :)
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