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- 4y ago
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- 4y ago
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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- 4y ago
thank you
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- 4y ago
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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- 4y ago
Thank you
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- 4y ago
Same here ❤️
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- 24w ago
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- 20w ago
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