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I talk to myself the things that help me overthink it was take medication, sleep really well, eat well and the fact that you are a good person, if you are battling not to think on them that mean that you are good but you can avoid the cause the brain is creative and can create millions of this thoughts you only need to understand aren't yours
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I think it would help you to take a strict stance toward your thoughts: Remember that your thoughts don’t mean anything. I sometimes fear that if I have a thought about selling my soul, then it means I did sell my soul. Not true! If I have that thought, it means NOTHING. I have a fear that if I have a bad thought about God, that means God will reject me. Not true! My thought actually MEANS NOTHING. I have decided that all my thoughts are MEANINGLESS. I think this would help you a ton. Remember, it doesn’t matter if you have a bad prayer or not, because YOUR THOUGHTS DON’T MATTER. It doesn’t matter if it you have a bad prayer on purpose even. It also doesn’t matter if you think about people dying online. It all doesn’t matter. The way to beat this is to ALLOW yourself to think of all these things freely, without trying to stop yourself. Can I ask what position you take toward your thoughts? Do you count them all as meaningless, or do they seem to have power?
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@Anonymoususer26251 I think it would really help you to not differentiate between the OCD thoughts and your own thoughts. You need to treat them all the same. You need to treat them all as just THOUGHTS. In that case, it doesn’t matter if you pray bad things. It doesn’t matter if the thoughts were intrusive or not. I want you to treat them all like OCD. I want to apply ERP no matter what. There’s no way we can go around differentiating what thoughts are intrusive versus not. It is impossible. And our minds are too confused to do it anyway. Just treat all thoughts the same and apply ERP no matter what. Do you think this could work for you?
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