Anyone have any good tips for resisting the urge to ruminate? My compulsions are mainly reassurance seeking and ruminating and while I can resist the compulsion to check something on my phone, it’s really hard to resist ruminating, because ultimately, the ruminating is just thinking thoughts, which we all know we can’t control.

I'm working on that today. Try to meditate/do some mindfulness exercise, then redirect your attention to something you used to enjoy! the thoughts will stay but don't engage them, it takes a bit of non-effort (if you try too hard or not hard enough, it doesnt work). Good luck :)

Ruminating is one of mine too. If I feel myself starting to think I try and shout at myself to stop so that the ‘stop’ thoughts are louder than my rumination if that makes sense? That might be such an unhealthy ineffective thing to do hahaha but I do it sometimes. Recently I’ve started doing like adult colouring books and listening to music/podcast to try and distract myself. The thoughts are still there but I don’t think I ruminate as much in that time. Maybe you could try something like that?

I totally get this! I set a timer for myself for like 10 min and I’m like “I will return to this problem in 10 min if I think it’s relevant. “

I’m really struggling with this too ... with my phone as well especially on social media - I’ve previously resorted to completely deleting all my social media but that wasn’t readable. I’ve also worked on putting my phone on “do not disturb” to avoid the urge to check. But that’s also a struggle ... Not sure if I can give any good advice because I’m also struggling with this very very badly, but if anyone has any tactics ... please

Feasible** instead of readable