I tend to spend a lot of time in my head playing out scenarios because they are comforting; not out of fear or avoidance. Daydreams about life, relationships, love, what compassion looks like. It can sometimes get obsessive when it revolves around my OCD theme. Can I still get better if I'm daydreaming about it?
Who amongst us doesn’t daydream? Daydreaming & having fantasies is ok. Ruminating on the ocd themes/thoughts and trying to figure it out is a compulsion. Btw I’m not an expert & I hope this helps you.
Subscribing! This seems like a gray area of response prevention. Dreams are important. Listening to ourselves is important. But at some point it's bracing or ruminating.
At times, my intrusive thoughts get so intense that all I can do is lay frozen in my bed and hope I fall asleep, and usually I do even if I'm not tired. My brain just wears me out and I wanna escape through sleep. (Sadly it doesn't work all the time)
Anyone struggle with this with having ocd?
These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
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