Anyone who deals with Pure O, have a negative thought come into your head and you spend hours justifying in your head why that thought is wrong? Any suggestions what to do in this situation. For example, someone pointed out a minor mistake I made and I spend the next few hours in my mind trying to justify why she is wrong or why it doesn't matter what she said. I hope you understand what I'm trying to explain. Hard to put this stuff into words.

Yes me.

All the darn time. I honestly don't know how to stop it, but I distract myself by listening to music or watching a favorite movie. I have a really hard time with repeating the same things over and over in my mind and I journal that out. It doesn't always work, but sometimes if I just write the thoughts out I can let it go. Otherwise, it is not uncommon for me to spend several hours repeating the same things in my mind.

What you are describing is why I think "Pure O" is an unhelpful concept. What you are describing are mental compulsions. Here is an article by a prominent clinician explaining what I mean: http://beyondocd.org/expert-perspectives/articles/pure-o-fact-or-fiction

The last paragraph addresses treatment of obsessions with mental compulsions.

Thanks everyone, David thanks for the article I will read it.

BTW one quick clarification, when I said pure O I didn't mean I don't deal with compulsions. Pure O is a mislabeling of the problem, I just use it to explain the fact that most of my compulsions are mental behaviors and not external, like handwashing, door locking ect. I believe they used pure O to explain people who from the outside looking in don't deal with compulsions, but that is far from the reality.