So I just visited a therapist for the first time and he recommended that I simply laugh at my OCD and tell it that nothings wrong when it tells me that I’ve done something bad when I obviously haven’t. This however is different to what I’ve heard being the best treatment which is to agree with everything your OCD tells you in order to expose the fear or something. What should I do?

Ah ok, sometimes though it uses past memories to enhance the fear, for example like, punching a boxing bag at the gym, my OCD tries to connect punching the boxing bag with doing something harmful and what if I wasn’t punching the bag and I was punching someone, it sounds ridiculous but it does this. Or if I’m angry one day it connects me being angry to doing something horrible, and then my OCD starts to create images and scenarios, so my question is that is there anyway to stop these made up images and scenarios that your Ocd makes?

Hey so I’m a bit confused, is exposure therapy simply sitting with the anxiety until the thought eventually goes away? Or is exposure therapy saying that you’ve done all does terrible things your OCD tells you you’ve done in a sarcastic way and laughing at it in order to make it go away.

@Arshia please don't tell yourself the ocd is right–the brain can't detect sarcasm, so you might start believing you've done those things and i have a feeling that wouldn't help you. all you have to do is be present for the anxiety. you don't have to interact with it at all in my experience

@ocdumbass Ok, also again I developed another shitty Ocd thought today which is driving me insane, it’s trying to tell me that I’ve done something when I know I haven’t and it’s putting images into my head to make me believe that I’ve done something, is this normal? How do I stop it?

@Arshia The laughing part worked for me once you have broken the back of the current OCD almost like "yeah good one" you know when you get a thought that you have worked on.

@Telecaster Ok I’ll try that, but what do you do when your ocd puts a realistic image in your head to convince you of something. How do you stop that?

@Arshia you can't stop your ocd from showing you thoughts. everyone has horrible intrusive thoughts, even the nicest people you know! the trick is just not giving them the time of day. a thought is just a thought; it doesn't mean anything. also, the more you think "i shouldn't think about this," the more it will happen

@ocdumbass So do I just sit throught the anxiety?

@Arshia yes