how can you guys tell the difference between ur anxious thoughts or your "real thoughts"

You don’t. OCD wants you to figure it out, but you have to sit with the uncertainty. If you ruminate on your thoughts it’ll only confuse you more and bring you more anxiety

but i wanna know because its about myself. i wanna know if im content with who i am or i need to make crazy changes or decisions or idk

like randomly my brain was like do u wanna be a man or woman and i was like what i like being a girl but maybe i dont???? idk scary and now idk its real or not

@lizardgurl I understand that it’s hard, but you have to try to not figure it out. You shouldn’t be making crazy life altering decisions when you’re having an OCD episode. Work on the OCD first and then once you’re in recovery you’ll have a better idea of which thoughts are real and which aren’t

@lizardgurl I had thoughts like that but the way I dissolve the thought is to think have I ever wanted to properly change genders and was I happy doing so

@Drvmstick you're right thank you. 99.9% most likely an episode😂

@alex.123 ya i don't really want to, my brain just kinda thought of it haha