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- Ashleyx0x
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- 1y ago
Gut instinct or ocd
How can you tell the difference between your gut instinct that something is wrong or OCD?
How can you tell the difference between your gut instinct that something is wrong or OCD?
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
@dvushaj What do you mean? Could you explain a little more, I don’t really get what you are saying xo
@Ashleyx0x Thoughts are thoughts. Maybe they’re accurate, maybe they’re not. OCD can spiral your gut feelings I see it as: if I’m spending too much time thinking about something to where it’s causing me distress and paralyzing me, it’s probably ocd, even if it started off as a genuine gut feeling. I would say think the thing through, do an exposure on best case scenario or worst case scenario, or both. As you continue doing that, it might make it easier to risk trusting your gut feeling and then differentiating whether it’s a gut feeling or OCD
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.
I've read people with OCD shouldn't trust their intuition. Does that mean I am adviced to keep analyzing if my intuition tells me not to?
This is my second post today but I don’t care. People with OCD have trouble when it comes to inner knowing or “trusting your gut”. I have this problem that’s extremely frustrating and depressing. I often get emotional when it comes to stuff like this. Does OCD usually attack your inner knowing? Help….
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