Science behind OCD ???

Not sure if you actually want the science or not 😅 but there’s a loop that connects the prefrontal cortex to a structure called the Striatum then to your Thalamus and back again. In a healthy brain, it fires only when something is wrong. But in an OCD brain the bell never goes off. The bell rings, you check it, and it keeps ringing. Your brain is telling you something is wrong even when it’s not. Then there’s a part of your brain called the anterior cingulate cortex, it’s basically your brains error detector. With OCD it never shuts up, until you do something like a compulsion that quiets it down. But every time you do the compulsion it strengthens the loop because your brain realized the compulsion shut it up. It’s short term relief to causing a longer term issue. I had 8 years of it being dormant. But once I threw excess stress and poor sleep back into my life, my OCD decided to flare back up. Stress/Trauma is the biggest cause and what makes it worse and worse. Obviously the reinforcement is where the issue starts. It’s why they say ERP and no reassurance seeking is what helps the most

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I really feel this

Stress and hormones are my biggest triggers. Mine went “dormant” for the most part for years, not sure why, mine likes to mostly manifest if I have a decision to make or I’m worried about something in particular. The worry is usually a normal worry to start that becomes an irrational level of worry with lots of extra worries and catastrophes to go with it

Well a scientific treatment for OCD is ERP. Have you heard of it

I wish i can stop my mind for little

Also, not sure your age, I’m late 30’s and I think the lovely hormone drops might be driving my major resurgence