Is accepting the thoughts but trying no to get scared by them even if they are scary and cause me anxiety a compulsion? Like I m accepting them but I m trying no to be scared of them so I don’t get the anxiety but I still get the anxiety
i dont think its a compulsion, i think its a good thing that you're trying to accept the thoughts (not agree), and let them be there and keep doing you're life. You're doing the oposite of compulsion, you're not engaging with toughts
@delulu Ok so when we engaged with the thoughts is a compulsion ups l been doing some compulsion sometimes didn’t even know this
@Monii yes, its my n1 compulsion i think. When you give the tought importance and "dialoguet" or rumiate with him youre doing a compulsion, you will not have a conclusion at all... i dont know how to do it myself yet lmao because i dont know when its a ocd tought or a real one! but yeah, try to say "ok brain" and think of another thing
@delulu Yes i m having the same issue sometimes I don’t know which one are ocd but I guess if they give me anxiety they are ocd
I wouldn’t say to numb what you’re feeling towards intrusiveness and its content. It’s about accepting that a thought is there, that is causes you some disturbance, that you’re willing to commit to values and live in compassion.
@brenoaugusto Yes I know I can’t numb what I m feeling I m accepting it with the anxiety sometimes I relapse though and I complain a lot of why I have to go through this to live :/
Is distracting yourself by doing activities you like considered a compulsion? I didn’t think so. You just can’t ignore your obsessive thought right, just accept it?
Now i know i need to accept when i feel anxiety or fear, ive been avoiding it or pushing it away.l, cause im afraid ir will take me and to be honest i cant really deal with fear. I noticed when i feel it a I say its okay, im feeling this but theres no danger and by this i pushing it away. But when theres is signs of an aczual danger i ho crazy. I try to push away the fear but it says that "there is a sign, we are in danger, are you crazy?" Ane i keep spinning. I heard alot about accepting thatbwe feel anxiety or fear but thats always makes me accept that theres a danger. Cause im accepting what i feeling but then my mind wants to know if theres a danger and im spinning over that, then i feel like i need to avoid it cause i cant handle... or if i say theres might be a danger or there is i go crazy... then i start to have the selfharm automative thoughts and in the panic i cant see that its ocd, im trying to say it but i feel like im lying, then everything feels true... i cant accept that i feel anxiety but its not a danger but even this you can see i start to rumminate over "okay i feel this but is there a problem? Yeah is see this this is a problem, im avoiding, i have to do something about it quickly, then i try to stop to not act based of fear but i feel bad cause im avoiding. I cant see the reality when i feel panic or afraid, even trying to see reality becomes compulsive. What im dealing with now is that i get hit by anxiety, i accept it and i get a feeling that but theres no fear and i get hit by this toxic good feeling like i avoided a danger and i dont like it cause that feeds the fear
I lately noticed that when I'm feeling anxious, I start telling myself: "Let the thoughts be there, just concentrate on what you're doing, do nothing to make it go away". The problem is that I keep repeating this dialogue in my mind, and I'm checking if I'm still very anxious or not. I think it's a compulsion but... how do I stop it? I get lost in the process 😵💫
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