What you can do to overcoming magical thinking? Like I can't do what I want because that could cause harm to others?

I dealt with this for years. It got progressively worse over time. I couldnt deal with it anymore so I was trying to figure out ways to over come it. I started questioning myself daily. Why am I doing this? Do I really think I can change reality by doing this? Why is my brain telling me things that arent real? By questioning my actions I started to pay attention to why this was happening vs the anxiety of doing a task to “prevent” something. When you get lost in magical thinking you tend to forget about reality. For me I KNEW I could NOT control real life by doing something a certain way. Reminding myself made me realize more and more how stupid the actions were.

I had that for many years, and still get it now at times, but nowadays I can manage it better. I completely agree with Aela. I also became convinced that there is NO WAY any of that actually influences reality, so I forced myself to stop. I did it gradually though, I had certain places where I had to do the compulsions, like certain doors, or while getting into bed etc. I cut them out one by one, then stopped altogether. You can do this ?

What is magical thinking?x

Everyone can have different magical thinking thoughts. But more or less thinking something bad will happen if you dont something a certain way or think something while doing it. For example not being able to pick a item on a shelf because theyre all “bad”. Or your socks needing to be folded correctly or bad things will happen. Stuff like that.

Ohh ok ty

that's helpful. Thank you.