Is constant obsessive thinking typical for those with OCD?

i was here a couple months back, it was endless, day in day out every moment of every day for months, but i’m much better now, have much more time without thoughts, still struggling and not recovered but things will improve if u put action into recovery and keep up hope, i promise it can get better

What wrong with the thoughts being there? Is it such a bad thing if they never go away? I ask this, because the key to recovering from OCD is just not caring. As long as you are bothered and upset about this obsession, it won’t go away. Recovering from OCD is not about making the thoughts go away, it’s about not caring that the thoughts are there. I’ve been obsessing about the same thing for two years now. And I find that the more I fight it, hate it, or get down on myself, the more miserable I am. You can’t control or stop thought, so live your life how you want to, the best you can, regardless of your thoughts. You’ve got this, keep your head up and keep moving forward.

I’m not an expert and passing along some information acquired in my OCD journey. When you fight against or check the thoughts, you’re signaling the brain to mark them as being important. We all have horrible thoughts. Those not having OCD will just shrug them off and not let them bother or give meaning to them. That’s contrary to those of us with OCD. It takes practice not to react to the thoughts or to follow them down the rabbit hole of trying to figure/checking (‘it’) them out. Lean toward the uncertainty.

i experience this every single day. even while i’m trying to sleep. if i sleep, i will wake up anxious every time due to the thoughts. you are not alone.

This post was a long time ago, but I wanted to comment to say I found a lot of identification in it. I also have thoughts 247 and they are relentless, they’ve even popped up in my dreams and when I get up in the night to go to the loo they are immediately start again. I and depressed and want to sleep all the time to shut it all out. I fear the thoughts will always be there forever and make it impossible to fully enjoy my relationship with my boyfriend because I’m never present. I’ve had several subsets of OCD in the past including contamination, harm, fear of contracting aids, as well as body dysmorphia and anorexia which are part of the same obsessive family. I have moved on from those, but then ROCD struck, which moved to SO OCD. These are the worst themes ever and linger all day long, even when I’m not actively having a flare up and panicking.