Compulsive googling solutions

I had one therapist (before coming to NOCD) who told me she embraced microplastics which weirdly helped me. We can't avoid all things or guarantee our health. Everything is a risk. We could do everything "right" and it still wouldn't go as planned. Maybe a way to reframe it is to recalibrate on the *fact* that you do have this moment right now and ocd is robbing you of the one thing that's guaranteed – this moment right now. We can't know what the future holds but we can at least say we enjoyed the ride. One of the guests on the NOCD Q&A a while back said that she realized she was spending her life sitting beside the grave wondering how she would end up there and then, when she realized the bigger gift is to get there however you get there, but to say you enjoyed the life you did have while you had it, that helped me a lot too. I hope you're able to find some peace and relief.

I do this about demons and try to convince myself that I’m not possessed or that I’m not OCD and there is a demon after me. I hopefully am going to start and exposure around this soon. If I do I’ll make a post about what helps. Sorry I can’t offer more right now.

Add a browser extension and block certain key words or even sites from coming up. For me, it was reddit that i had to block entirely because holy misinformation that place is scarier than webmd for health ocd sufferers

Funny enough this is one of my biggest issues. I over the years consumed porn that was intense (rape/cnc, incest etc) and only once I quit porn for good by the Grace of God did I ever begin to worry about the content of it. More so things like:”was that legal to watch?” Or “what if they weren’t all actually consenting?” And “what if they were actually underaged?” And so on and so forth. This mostly stems from I used some seedy websites such as motherless and 4chan. I’ve had success firstly avoiding rumination and avoiding compulsively googling things about legality, accidental viewing and etc. that will make me spiral. But also just sitting with the thought and honestly embracing it such as “ok all of thst was illegal nobody was consenting and they were underaged now what” and the brain stops in its tracks on it and goes “well then you goto jail” and I have to respond simply “ok then I guess I’ll goto jail” and that pretty much ends it usually. Living with the uncertain in your mind is what kills ocds core issue. Practice this and you will have much more success.