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- 1y
OCD and Law of Attraction
I want to start from adding that I had OCD as long as I know, but not as severe as I experience it now. Sometimes I wonder, how did it get this much worse? And I trace its roots at a time when I started believing in the Law of Attraction. (I don't believe it, even then I didn't but acted as if I wanted to try) The books I read around Law of Attraction most often taught that always have a positive thought, and not a negative one for positive thoughts manifest good things and negative ones bad things. I would keep a journal, and deliberately think positive thoughts and undo the negative thoughts that I had. Although, at that time, I had no idea what OCD was. But neutralizing thoughts begun around this time after reading books like The Secret, and other popular books around the concept of Law of Attraction. It was also this time when I got into a relationship, and it started consuming me when I started magical thinking. Certain hairstyle mean (the hairstyle) dictates how my girlfriend talks to me. Let's say, I change my hairstyle one day and my girlfriend is happy and wants to hang out. It caused me to believe that this new hairstyle brought or made this thing happened. Now let me add, I don't believe in these things. I don't. But as of writing this now, I just feel so unbelievably stupid that I could think something so rubbish and idiotic like that. I know it's a mental disorder and I shouldn't label it like that. But I think for anyone who is in the recovery process, when you look back, you do have that anger on your chest that why did I waste so much time? So this way I believe I learnt OCD. I had it already and I know I had. But the severity of OCD has all come from this concept of Law of Attraction. It was 2017 and it's 2024 now. I don't know how to express this more clearly. But do you have similar experiences where you feel like your OCD wasn't this much worse or something that resonates with what I just said. If you feel like you can contribute to this, please do so. Stay Safe. Awais Bahar