Beginning of a spiral

This is what I try to do. First, congratulate yourself for recognizing the beginning of the spiral (too often I don’t notice until I’m much deep in). Hopefully the celebration distracts you, if not, congratulate yourself for recognizing that. Then, get down to the hard work of sitting in the discomfort the thoughts are creating and try to avoid compulsions. Any win, is worth celebrating, because the alternative is extra suffering on top of what OCD brings.

i instantly go to "maybe maybe not"

First, stop yourself from spiraling. Step back and recognize ocd is starting to spiral. Calm yourself. Do the exercises/techniques you need to do to get back on track. Resist compulsions and don’t be afraid of the thoughts that you’re allowing to come into your head. Sit and let the anxiety diminish and try to not let yourself sink back into the spiral. Give yourself grace also!!!

I’ve had around 3 big spirals just these past 2 weeks and what’s helped me on the first one is unfortunately trying to get on with ur day normally, and as horrible that can sound as the amount of anxiety ocd gives people is literally insane it truly does help even if it just takes 1% of anxiety away it’s worth it, also I set myself a random goal of attempting to do around 5000-8000 steps a day since I was only doing around 100 a day and setting that random goal really motivated me to try and get along with my day. It obviously won’t work for everyone but maybe give it a try and see :)