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Rumination
How exactly do you stop ruminating? It’s my worst compulsion and it’s pretty much constant.
How exactly do you stop ruminating? It’s my worst compulsion and it’s pretty much constant.
If you look up Nathan Peterson on YouTube (he’s a mental health therapist for ocd and anxiety) he has some good methods for rumination.
@Anonymous I have seen his channel before! Thanks.
Practicing mindfulness/meditation can help you learn to manage your thoughts. Here's a more technical guide: https://drmichaeljgreenberg.com/how-to-stop-ruminating/
@josh285 Thank you.
Feel guilty for not giving into compulsions like rumination and confessing? I feel guilt for having an intrusive thought, trying to shrug it off or just giving it a few seconds of thought and moving along. This sounds like improvement but I still struggle with the anxiety and the guilt. The shame. I’ll be okay and then I’ll remember I have OCD and my stomach will drop and I just want to curl up and cry.
So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
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