Has anyone else become obsessed with something related to politics or news? For the past two weeks I can’t stop thinking about one issue and I end up researching it endlessly. And when I’m not researching it I’m ruminating on it constantly, basically from the moment I wake up until I go to sleep. I want to stop thinking about it because it’s exhausting but I feel like I can’t. I don’t know if this is my OCD manifesting or if I just have an obsessive brain and fixate on things. Has anyone else experienced something similar? Any tips on ERP for this?

Yeah, I cycle through: microplastics, climate change, the US being stolen from Native Americans, slavery and how it affects people today, corruption, shareholder capitalism, and ever-increasing taxation and resource scarcity against perpetually sinking wages... and this, for me, is a good phase 😹😹 The rest of the time, my struggles are false memory and real event themes, relationship, contamination, and harm... I don’t get help for the first group; to me, obsession with those things just makes me feel like a decent citizen. It’s even harder not to obsess when you know almost half the country isn’t even aware of all the strife and pending crises. All that has helped me with these things has been donating money and gratitude journaling... and trying to pollute as little as possible.

Yea. After a stressful event that took place in my country I couldn't sleep for a week and started endlessly researching about this one issue and its ramifications. I think it might be "I have to know" compulsion, and some things are really not that easy to "just know" some questions ain't have answers either. So I think observe the urge but don't do extreme research. Might also be seen as just compulsive info hoarding

Right, those are great insights!

Great advice, thank you so much