I feel like I can’t identify intrusive thoughts…I’m just constantly trying to figure my sexuality out. Like, it’s the first thing on my mind in the morning and the last thing before I go to bed and I’ve been diagnosed with OCD several times but like??? Why do some people know they’re having “1-3 thoughts per hour” if I can’t even identify them?

so i see you are talking about my post. you have to remember that ocd is different for everyone. it can manifeat in different ways and display it self in different ways. for me i have been doing a bunch of recovery work and pushing my self to be able to identify the thoughts. i was in the same position as you not even a month ago so i completely understand what you mean. doing erp and accepting the uncertainty will help you be able to identify these thoughts. what helps me classify these thoughts is looking back at myself before i developed so-ocd. i ask myself “would i think this before ocd?” 99% of the time the answer is no. so whenever these thoughts appear i just accept their presence and leave them floating in my mind cause i know they mean nothing. you have to remember to stay true to your self cause these are just thoughts. they mean absolutely nothing

Did you tried Exposure response prevention with some level of success? Because this is how I came to be able to identify the intrusives thoughts much clearly. Even if I get hit really bad by ocd, once the anxiety get down a bit I am able to realize that it was just a ocd thought. Before ERP I was in so much anxiety that I was unable to think rationally let alone identifying the thoughts when ocd was striking me.

Oh hun I feel for you ! I saw the post that triggered you . OCD is different for everyone and searching for your experience to match with someone else’s won’t give you reassurance in the long run it will just perpetuate the OCD cycle

the more you try to figure out the thoughts and give them meaning, the longer they will stay