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Just quit and work at learning it's ok to not have good thoughts all the time. As someone who quit a few different things. There's never a "good time" but super proud I did it. Like quitting allowing myself to obsess over the possibility of an unpleasant thought. 😉

It’s like quitting Any addictive substance, and ocd is no different. It’s pretty difficult and the more you engage in it and feed it, the harder it seems to ever quit. But don’t be discouraged, for the longest I feel into a deep hole of rumination cycles and I thought to myself holy crap there’s no way I’m going to get out of this. I thought I could out think my ocd and yea there’s no way. I feel exactly what you mean by quitting on a bad thought because that’s what it feels like, it’s like dang man it just doesn’t feel right to quit on this. The best thing to do in my opinion and is notice your in rumination and just pull back into reality. It’s not gonna just stop like that tho, just like when when quitting a drug, the urge is going to be there, you have the choice whether or not to engage. And that’s the hardest part

1. Realizing the intrusive thought subject matter is not about me personally and that anyone can have that thought helped me. 2. OCD is a liar trying to make me think it is about me. 3. This is a fight between truth and lies… 4. OCD picks on what matters most to you…egodystonic is what that is called.

It is hard… you can do this though! We all have been there or are there.

I do realize how insane it is to even believe thoughts can contaminate objects. I really do. I just hate it that when you feel strong and you go for it knowing you are not listening to OCD. It gets more intense. And even though I know it’s bs. I still get so much anxiety and my brain really wants to figure it all out and replace bad images with good ones and so on. I’m gonna have to get on a better erp plan or something idk.