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Have you read up on magical thinking yet?
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Yes but I didn’t know if that fit underneath it!
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@minfoy That's is almost most definitely magical thinking. I know exaclty how you feel. There's some great reads on it tho.
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Oh yeah this magical thinking stuff totally gets to me. Like it makes me even doubt my religion sometimes, because if my brain can convince me that something crazy like a commercial on the television was a “sign from god” telling me what’s wrong with me, is it convincing me of my faith in god too?? Super meta, but I’ve gone that road too
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I'm know EXACTLY how you guys feel. Like everything is a sign and your sign triggers seem to follow you around right? Which makes them even harder to disregard.
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My mum (who also has OCD) has these coincidences happening to her all the time. She thinks that our brain is so alert we are searching for everything potentially dangerous so therefore are more likely to notice coincidences. Its scary though I get you! Its something else for the OCD to focus on
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It’s so weird, I see them in everything sometimes
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Yes yes yes I’m so worried about my relationship and all that pops up are articles about toxic relationships and quotes about doing what you need to do to be happy and I hate it. I think way too into it :(
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Yes this is exactly what I mean! I feel like I was the only one.
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You are not alone, but please don't use any of this as reassurance. Because I know it's easy to. Use this as fuel to help you disregard that uneasiness you get when you feel like your signs are following you. I'm not sure what kind of compulsions you have but mine tell me to avoid doing things I want because of those triggers so I try to remind myself what it is that's going on in my mind and do what I need to anyway. So much easier said than done though.
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No you are completely right, I was just wondering if anyone else had similar thoughts. I do try to just let them be and realise my brain is tricking me into it, but you know how it goes!
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Yes I do and it's taken alot of my time and energy already. Feeling like you're being followed by all of your triggers whether it be a commercial, social media, a conversation, or an advertisement. I'm working to remember that the key is not engaging with the feeling AND the thought. Then you must disregard the whole thing entirely. This article may help. https://www.gatewayocd.com/magical-thinking-ocd-symptoms-and-treatment/
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I saw a post saying that thinking about something for a while will bring it to you. Now I’m scared and panicking because I think about illnesses and getting a disease almost everyday. What should I do? Im very scared
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My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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so i was on instagram and it came up with other signs of ocd then someone commented this doesn’t mean you have ocd now im stressed that its not ocd background - i had so-ocd for a few years then got treatment for it but am now on the waiting list for further treatment for other stuff but i dont have another theme which makes me feel like its not ocd my day to day life consists of touching the door handle every time you go past it or someone will die, and inability to send emails without re reading loads of times and getting other people to check because im scared i wrote something bad but the what if it’s not ocd thought is triggering me now and i don’t know what do
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