Anonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
StudybugStudybug
- Date posted
- 1y
Stop interacting with the thoughts and understand that there is no answer to satisfy them, it will just keep going around in a loop if you keep trying to figure it out.
MalisimoMalisimo
- Date posted
- 1y
Rational thinking is the opposite of rumination. Rumination will only ever increase your anxiety. If you have an issue you are ruminating on sit down and write it out very slowly, really examine it and feel it. Why are you afraid of it? is it something to be afraid of and what is the logical conclusion. Once you have thought about everything and really turned it around in your head ask yourself can I let this go now? Never dwell on an issue that causes an ocd spike or try to solve it in your head. Most times these ocd questions have no answer. The key is to avoid the ocd loop. Once you are in the loop the solving the problem will become the problem and the loop has to be broken.
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
Whats the difference between rumination and just thinking because I have a fear of going crazy and becoming homeless but sometimes I remember the fact that it's my fear idk how to explain it but I'm confused and it's exhausting
MalisimoMalisimo
- Date posted
- 1y
@Anonymous Rumination is intense focus, problem solving in your mind. You fear going crazy because it will then put you in a scary situation with no escape, that is all ocd. Ok you fear going crazy, well does that question am I crazy have an answer, no. Do you need to solve am I crazy, nope. If you try to solve it you will be in an ocd loop and have then created an actual problem. Will you go crazy? Think about it rationally, very unlikely. You have ocd and can learn to overcome it. So can you let this fear go, I hope so. No amount of thinking is going to protect you or change the future. In this moment though you have a choice to live your life today.
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
@Malisimo The thought comes up a lot I'm wondering if I'm ruminating because the thought is coming up because when the thought comes up I just live my life but it still comes back so I was wondering if I'm doing any compulsion but I don't know of any compulsion that I'm doing
MalisimoMalisimo
- Date posted
- 1y
@Anonymous Well rumination is a compulsion. The thought comes back because you are afraid of the what if scenario. It creates a spike of anxiety. When your mind asks you what if I go crazy and creates a spike, do not try to figure out if you are or will go crazy. Trying to answer the question will only increase the anxiety. Simply tell yourself well maybe/ maybe not. Either way you cannot figure it out. You are not crazy today so better take advantage of that and enjoy the day.
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
@Malisimo Thank you for making me see it that way
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
@Anonymous Btw what if my ocd is saying what if I'm crazy and I don't know
MalisimoMalisimo
- Date posted
- 1y
@Anonymous You are trying to answer a question which has no answer. It therefore does not require you to try and answer it. You are still trying to figure it out because the ocd is saying but what about this question? OCD is telling you answer this one last thing and you will be safe, but answering it will not protect you, it’s an illusion of control. You don’t need to engage with this anymore because it is a pointless endeavor with no solution. You going crazy is not a problem to solve, you trying to solve this “what if I go crazy” question is the ONLY problem. If you stop trying to figure it out you are out of the loop. You can do this!
JoyasJoyas
- Date posted
- 1y
Just let the thoughts be don’t engage
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
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