ocd changing severity with time

@Rayna_lp25 ah this makes sense, thank you. i have been working on it, finding it easier to deal with intrusive thoughts however there are rituals i need to work on. but other than that you are correct yes, i feel as if my brain has gotten bored of it but it has been a while where its been like this so i was just confused and wondering if it went away or if this is normal. but this is helpful even if it was in a way me asking for reassurance. thank you!!

@Rayna_lp25 This helps me so much too. Thank you. I’m just realizing that my reassurance seeking is a compulsion & part of my OCD. Once I have become more aware of that, I have been able to try to stop it when it starts & tell myself that I don’t actually need more & more reassurance, that’s just my OCD talking.

@Sunshine79 I cut out the reassurance compulsion in steps, I was reassurance seeking so often and even doing it sneakily. Googling, watching videos, watching for people’s reactions when I ask for reassurance, asking online, asking drs, loved ones etc. I chose which ones would be easiest to cut out, and worked my way up. I still find myself doing some sneaky reassurance, like I’ll tell myself “that’s not true!” “I won’t do that” and I’ll notice my thoughts will take that and RUN. A good way to figure out if it’s a compulsion is to ask yourself if you feel the need to immediately know. If you feel like that, wait a while. Everytime you get anxiety about needing to know, just keep waiting. Tell yourself “this is not something I need to know right now” and you’ll either forget about it completely, or you’ll forget about it for a while. If you catch yourself in a reassurance seeking compulsion, stop it in its tracks and “undo it”. Do the complete opposite of what your brain tells you.