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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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i was recently diagnosed with ocd and i think im having a hard time identifying what is my ocd and what isn’t? or im not really sure how to express myself but i feel like i still don’t really know much about ocd and feel like an imposter saying i have it because i don’t know enough about it to really understand it? like all my life these things i would do or say or think or feel were i guess “normal” to me,, so how do i move forward when i don’t know really where to begin?
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I was diagnosed with OCD around the age of 6, subtype- contamination primarily. It calmed down as I got older and I assumed it had gone away, but also didn’t realize it can show up in other ways, and it still had been effecting me which I know now. I’m not 31 and I’ve been in therapy for a year and it’s helped a lot, although I sometimes get thoughts that what if some of the stuff I’m dealing with isn’t ocd and I’m exaggerating. I feel like thoughts will feel sticky and I’ll do certain compulsions but then the thought eventually vanishes if I do it a few times which makes me think maybe it’s not OCD since other people/friends I know would probably do the exact same thing. Not sure if I’m making sense, but I guess my question is if that thought comes up with anyone else? Just being unsure if something you’re doing actually is ocd or not.
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