Why is real event OCD so hard to overcome? I’ve dealt with HOCD and POCD and had great success overcoming it. I’ve struggled so bad with real event, I guess because it was something that actually happened. Any advice?

@Bean Good! I will call all of you out! I know who posts daily 👀

@Bean (Joking bc I hardly get on now but I do get on to see how people are doing)

@Bean Most people use it as a compulsion either to post or to come find people with the same story as them. And lots don’t even realize that’s what they are doing!

I remember struggling with it in my early twenties (32 now and before I was diagnosed with OCD) I remember thinking “thats not me” I would immediately try and focus on something else and It got to the point where I just somehow let the thoughts come in and I would pray and just put it in Gods hands and it eventually went away. Real event has got a hold of me like no other, though. I guess bc it really happened on the POCD never did.

@Kristen And*