Intrusive thoughts

Acknowledge the thought and keep on moving on with your day without rumination ( and that’s not easy). Sit with the maybe or maybe not be true even though you may know the truth sitting with that uncertainty helps

You are welcome, we care because we been there. Hang in there it does get better ❤️‍🩹

We all experience intrusive thoughts, I try to think of them as a computer virus. You would not blame a computer for having a virus. You can’t control what thoughts pops in your head. There is no need for guilt because you are not responsible for them. Try using a phrase like here comes the _____ cross wires , bananas, bugs, whatever. Just don’t associate them with you . You are so right “ they’re not your thoughts “. 👍

Thank you to both of you, ur helps a lot :) After having CBT therapy for intrusive thoughts before, it helped but it’s just so hard carrying on the exposure technique in your day to day life, you so easily want to just give in n say stuff to yourself like ‘I DONT WANT THAT THOUGHT’ or ‘THATS NOT MY THOUGHT’ but like I have been told in the past by the therapist, that’s just feeding into it and OCD THRIVES on you worrying about it n stressing about it. It’s such a difficult thing to live with. It makes me wonder what I’d be like without OCD n if I’d feel much more free :(