How can you distinguish between gut instinct and OCD symptoms?

So since we have OCD we don’t have a “gut feeling” because OCS hijacks it.

Good question, I want to know this too.

Very good question. Personally I feel a well developed gut instinct or a high level of intuition can be very useful and helpful. OCD on the other hand is not . Being highly intuitive overall can be a big plus and a strength . Coming at something with a OCD mentality has many negatives and occasionally a few positives. Being driven in a harsh must do something is more OCD . Having a thoughtful introspective feeling and thought is more so intuition.

The anxious feeling in your gut could be OCD or a sign of something or just beans from lunch. You won’t know, it’s something else to sit in the uncertainty about.

I think it depends on how long you’re thinking about it. I feel like you could be obsessively thinking about something that your gut feeling is truly telling you. At that point the question is “how much more do i need to think about this?” So good or bad feeling, i view it as amount of time ruminating over it whether the feeling is true or not I hope that helps

Honestly, all the stuff I developed ocd to is because I had a valid reason and I wanted to ignore it and keep going with my life. Being uncomfortable in public places, in an uber, there is the chance the encounter will go badly. Relationship anxiety, dating is complicated and I was right there was something off. You’re probably right that theres something off about all these things that are triggering you, that you want to feel comforted from with your rituals and ruminating. But deep inside you know you are worth it, you are worth living your life, and you have to keep trying. Don’t give up. Ocd symptoms and gut instinct can be the same thing. They aren’t necessarily separate.

Actually , OCD hijacked our gut feeling .

You can't, ocd feels like our gut feeling 24/7 is just another uncertainty problem.