Ruminating coping skills

This may sound ridiculous, but let yourself stay on the hamster wheel! The more you try to get yourself off, the more your brain will try to fight you on it. When you give into the ruminations, your OCD knows that it's got you. Sit with your thoughts and prove that they don't bother you. When your brain realizes you don't care about being on the hamster wheel, you'll realize you're suddenly off it!

Hi , I’m so sorry u are stuck, I know how that feels. Try not engaging in the thought, let it be there, and you can say “maybe, maybe not”, or “ i don’t have to figure that out right now”, and then continue doing what u were doing before the intrusive thought came up. Sometimes I have to just keep doing this a ton of times when the ocd/ rumination cycle tries to get me stuck, but overtime by resisting the compulsion to ruminate, it gets less and less, and then I build confidence that I can handle/ sit with the uncertainty, it teaches my brain something new. Be kind to yourself, move towards your values, try to just be in the present moment, these are just things iv learned, hope it helps💝🤗🙏

I feel like I need to ruminate to prove I wouldn’t do anything bad