Tips for Mental Compulsions

“Cool story, Bro…I’m going to move on with my day” ☺️

This is great! I really like responding to my OCD with sarcasm.

@MintyMLP Do you ever agree with your thoughts as a technique?! I’m getting hung up on how this is supposed to work 😂 like isn’t agreeing with them validating them?

@Anonymous24 You’re not agreeing or accepting the content of the thoughts, you’re accepting that they’re there, a false alarm has been activated, and your brain/body responded. That’s it. Nothing to see here.

When things get overwhelming I write down ALL of my OCD thoughts. Then I go down the list and respond to each one with a maybe statement "Maybe this is true, maybe not". Then I tell OCD "Thank you." "Thank you for reminding me how much I care about X" because OCD targets what you care about the most.

Sometimes mentally responding to mental compulsions is just too hard. It feels like I'm untying knots in my brain. If I write things down it clarifies what exactly OCD is trying to tell me and then I can attack it the way it needs to be attacked.

@MintyMLP Okay I started doing this too and it has helped!! I agree, it’s like untying knots in your brain and it gets messy really quick. I feel like it’s easier to start ruminating when you try to handle it all mentally sometimes.

Saying "I'll worry about this later." Or "I don't need to fix this right now" and really working on being OK with having an uncomfortable feeling