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The same way as any other. Let it be there. Carry on what you’re doing. And the “maybe I will go crazy, maybe I won’t” “maybe I will harm someone I love, maybe I won’t” those phrases never mean that you are accepting the content of the thought. It’s never saying you agree with it. It’s training your brain to not see the thoughts as a threat. Remember intrusive thoughts can be anything. Commands, feelings, urges, what ifs, questions, etc. treat them all the same. Sit with the anxiety and go on about your day. I have commands all the time. It’s a part of my every day but I allow them to be there. I say maybe maybe not and carry on with what I was doing when the command happened. I used to be playing with my son and I’d have a command “kill him” or “snap his neck” and those thoughts would of course terrify me to my core and I would fight them. I would try to “neutralize” the thought by saying to myself you’d never do that, you love him more than anything, you’ll kill yourself before you’d let yourself hurt him etc. these are all compulsions and only make the thoughts stronger in the long run. Or id come on here and see if any other mom had the same thoughts and I would obsessively try to find others going through the same thing. The truth is, you don’t have to know. There’s nothing to figure out. Sit with the anxiety and give yourself response prevention sayings like maybe I will maybe I won’t. I struggled a lot with this in the beginning and sometimes I still do bc it feels like you’re agreeing with the thought or command. But that is not true.

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