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Congratulations on being able to better manage your OCD. Couple of thoughts... When challenging OCD, the goal should not be perfection, as that's neither realistic nor attainable. Try to apply your ERP to your concern about differentiating OCD thoughts from non-OCD thoughts. In other words, rather than dwell on which are or are not OCD thoughts, just accept the uncertainty of just not knowing. The thing that you do not want to do is find yourself in a ruminating loop trying to figure out which is which.
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thank you
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a tip that i can give is looking at it and see if you can find anxiety... There is always anxiety in ocd it can be because you are having the thoughts, or even you can think like oh i dont feel anxious when i think about my triggers so that must mean i dont have ocd and the fears are real.. at the end of it you have anxiety about something.. hope it helped.. it doesnt matter if you react to normal thoughts like ocd ones ;D
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Thank you
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Same here ❤️
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Does anyone else ever feel like they don’t feel “bad enough” to have OCD, or that they don’t feel “the right way” for it? Or like they’re just saying they have OCD as an excuse? Because i was so much better for like 3 weeks now and now im on my period and i started doubting again. So because of that im scared that i was feeling to good and that my fear is actually true.
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Does anyone have any advice for how to know the difference between ocd and real feelings/thoughts? Sometimes an intrusive thought will come in and I immediately know it’s ridiculous and I can just leave it alone and it won’t bother me but other times I really really don’t know. It’s when ocd hijacks and twists my real feelings and thoughts and tries to manipulate me into believing they’re something they’re not or something that doesn’t align with my true morals or intentions. But since it’s twisting and mixing with real feelings I get so confused and scared. Everything gets jumbled and I feel like I can’t trust myself or my own mind. Yet other times and other topics I can laugh off and push away just fine. Make it make sense. And then I start to think well maybe I don’t have ocd at all and I’m just in denial because I don’t want to accept that these scary/concerning things are true about myself. Or maybe that’s just the ocd talking.
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