Help me understand this

Hmmm….i think the overarching point is if you tell yourself negative things like ‘I have no friends’, you will begin to believe it and stop attempting to make friends or doing the things you need to do to make connections. Negative self talk is never helpful. Kind of like how an OCD thought repeats in your brain so much that you think you’re almost certain it’s true, but also AVOID many things or do compulsions so to prevent it from coming true. You fear it. You do compulsions or avoid certain things because you’re terrified the OCD thought will happen. With ERP, the point is to become comfortable with the possibility that bad things could happen, but also comfortable with the uncertainty that they may end differently. Kind of getting to a point where you feel indifferent instead of terrified of your own thoughts and all the ‘possibilities’ they can create. For the school scenario, the negative self talk is kind of like the compulsion….and the exposure woukd be to go out and actively try to make friends. You woukd be terrified if it in that case, but if you kept doing it you woukd become also become indifferent to the activity (not avoiding, and not fearing). I hope that made some form of sense. Tiny box to type in here!!

The teacher or anybody really in tiktok really just yap without context or backed up evidence. In the context of your brain will believe anything you tell it literally just means that if you think negatively your day will maybe be negative. You can’t have ocd thought that says “oh I wanna harm a family member” and if you repeat it it means that you will eventually do it. It absolutely does not mean this. I hate social media and how much damage it caused to people and misinformation. I just saw a tiktok that said if you watched “orn in your life and things against your morality you should go, you don’t deserve any empathy. It’s crazy cuz people don’t know the addiction and the dopamine shock value and just yap, a lot of people in the comments were feeling sad because they recovered and never relapsed and explained how they give up in society because they are still considered bad people like we should at least encourage them.. so yeh I don’t understand. No you’re not enforcing it more by thinking about it, ocd is unwanted, however you could for example ruin your day if you think negatively too much but I understand sometimes you can’t just help it

I've thought the same things when my therapy has brought me to scripts. But I think since you are cognizant of the point of the script, you can use it for that purpose. The purpose of the script is to get you desensitized to the fear, but not to get you to believe it. So you can use the script for the intended purpose--and you know that you don't have to believe it.

This is the tik tok https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPL4fs178/