Accepting thoughts vs. Agreeing with them.

I get that you can’t fight the thoughts, otherwise they get way worse. No use arguing that, it’s OCD-101. lol. But agreeing with them can be damaging right? Especially with POCD and SO-OCD. I’ve accepted that I’ve had these thoughts and have stopped trying to fight them mostly, but I refuse to accept that the thoughts say anything about me. Is that the correct way of dealing with it? Agreeing with them seems like it truly would damage me and hurt my self-confidence.

Username: Mitu_001Mitu_001

Date posted: 17w ago

I think is the best.I struggle with this too.Accepting the thoughts doesn't mean you agree with them. You just accept that you have these thoughts.It doesn't mean anything about u as a person

Username: NicaNica

Date posted: 17w ago

Agreeing with them in one type of technique but a bit more advanced. I agree with my thoughts all the time but I’m trolling my OCD for self ERP. I don’t recommend that to most people especially not when you are nowhere near recovered (I’ve been subclinical for 4 years).

Username: E.L.T.I.G.B.A.E.L.T.I.G.B.A.

Date posted: 17w ago

Based on a book I’ve read about OCD/intrusive thoughts I learned that accepting the thought as just a thought is what you should do. What defines an intrusive thought is the fact that you strongly disagree with it, it does not align with who you are and your moral values, it makes you uncomfortable because it’s the opposite of what you stand for. We tend to be scared of it because of the myths that all our thoughts have meaning, that our thoughts indicate our character. They don’t. Thoughts just pop in your head and you have no choice in the matter. Everyone has intrusive thoughts but the people who don’t struggle with them just accept them for the nonsense that they are and carry on. They don’t question what it says about them because they know it’s not dangerous it’s just a thought. It’s not a desire you actually want or a belief you actually hold since you want to fight against it. It’s a lot easier said than done to just let the thought just be a meaningless thought but it helps me out when I repeat these facts in my head.

Username: OcdmenaceOcdmenace

Date posted: 17w ago

I'm also struggling with this what's the best solution

Username: scared91

Date posted: 5y ago

Does anyone else try accepting thier thoughts and just thinking whatever to them? I have severe pocd and I can understand the concwpt of just accepting them as thoughts. But what do you do when you see a preety little girl for example? I just think she's preety abd the I think does that mean attractive??....

Username: Soph

Date posted: 4y ago

Constantly struggle with the battle between saying ‘thoughts are just thoughts and OCD thoughts are ego-dystonic so you know they don’t represent who you are’ and the acceptance route of ‘it’s just a thought, maybe it means something, maybe it doesn’t me - in my mind I’m like ‘well if it maybe means something then how can it be ego dystonic?’ - I really need help getting my mindfulness together!

Username: OcdNutball

Date posted: 2y ago

Just Accept it

When people tell me to accept it, do they mean accept the thought or accept that you have these thoughts. Because I have Suicidal OCD and I get these thoughts and just can’t accept that I could do something like that

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