anyone else get nervous to “look too deeply” into themselves bc of the intrusive thoughts and lies that arise from ocd? when i analyze myself too deeply ocd will tell me that i’m something i’m not
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If you're talking about trying to analyze your mind, that's definitely not going to be helpful because OCD hijacks our cognitive process and there's nothing we need to "figure out" about our OCD thoughts. But if you're talking about meditating or putting awareness inwards, then you're meeting anxiety where it's at. If intrusive thoughts arise, know that it's your mind trying to protect you, it's a false alarm. Your true nature is the silent awareness that watches your thoughts -- you are not your thoughts or your mind. I wish you the best <3
@perasperaadastra thanks! it’s more of me trying to analyze a physical feeling, which i suppose it the same thing. because i analyze my feelings and anxiety (along with intrusive thoughts) arise
@snowflakes Yup, I’d say that analysing (thoughts, emotions, reactions, physical sensations etc) is a compulsion. It’s not dangerous in the sense that you’ll discover something awful in yourself (that’s just ocd nonsense) but it’s “dangerous” in that it will only feed your ocd. Thinking itself isn’t dangerous. So allow yourself to think, to notice things, let your thoughts and emotions be there. It’s safe to experience them all. BUT it’s important not to automatically accept every thought and emotion as truth. (That’s where ocd is trying to go) We have thousands of thoughts a day and most are nonsense, or just background noise we don’t even remember 5 min later. And a lot of it is random. They say nothing about who you are. Because everyone has thoughts and feelings they don’t like or that make them uncomfortable at times. Literally everyone. Your reaction to the thoughts and feelings you don’t want (analysing them, from the assumption there’s something bad about you) is what’s causing your anxiety. So I’d say to try and find a way to expose yourself to your own thoughts and let them be there. Don’t analyse them but also don’t push them away. Let them be there without you doing anything with them.
Yeah I experience this but also in an outward sense too, I don’t want to analyze anything too deeply because I get myself scared. If I find out something uncomfortable my OCD kinda makes me think that the existence of a bad thing taints all life and all existence is bad… I know it’s not true but it gets me freaked out. It’s a weird symptom that only started happening recently. I used to be very happy with my curiosity, but now I’m a little afraid of it because when I reach a point of confusion I spiral
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