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Well the reason you do the maybe, maybe not is to show your brain you aren't going to go down the rabbit hole trying to prove you aren't one. Because your brain is seeing danger there isn't and if you just tell your brain there isn't danger it's going to find ways to show you there is. So what you have to do when your brain alerts you of danger is to basically belittle that danger signal which you do by being indifferent. Because just accepting a thought you don't enjoy goes against the danger signal your brain is trying to send. It just doesn't compute for it, so overtime it tells your brain that it isn't real because you aren't reacting to it with extreme emotion.
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- 3y
i actually never thought of it like that, it makes sense now so thank you! i thought it was just kind of accepting that it was possible (gross) which felt wrong but now i understand:)
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@jammyy Yeah I watched a few thearpists explain it. They said the goal isn't to truly believe it. It's to shock your brain out of that compulsive thinking basically.
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This is really helpful
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- 24w
So, if I'm retelling a story or relaying information to someone, after I'm done speaking, my brain will send me thoughts like, "What if you lied? You might have told the story wrong! You're lying!" I've started second-guessing myself, even when I know I'm not lying or telling the story wrong😭 This has also bled into twisting my intentions behind certain actions... For example, the other day, I'd been babysitting my younger brothers. I'd gone to use the restroom and thought, "What if the door isn't locked or closed all the way?" Because this has happened once in the past. Turns out, it didn't lock correctly, and one of my little brothers almost walked in on me, but luckily, I shut the door in time, and we laughed it off. But then, I kept getting thoughts like, "You knew that would happen, and you didn't double-check! You wanted that to happen and for him to walk in!" :( I know this isn't true, but it's so annoying! Has anyone dealt with this? If you have, do you have any advice on how to deal with these thoughts?
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- 16w
Does anyone else experience a moment of clarity where you feel strong relief that the intrusive thought isn’t true, only to then immediately start questioning if you’ve only convinced yourself that because you don’t want the thought to be true? I’m pretty confident it would take some crazy mental gymnastics to actually successfully convince myself I didn’t do something that I deep down knew I did, but every time I resist the compulsions and try to sit with the uncertainty or tell myself to think about what is logical, I usually briefly know that this probably didn’t happen but am unable to move on out of fear I’m just in denial and have convinced myself of that.
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- 14w
This situation just happened and I can definitely remember how it went but my brain is telling me otherwise and I know you guys said to sit with the uncertainty but what if the intrusive thought is so bad like disgusting, I can’t sit with that. Maybe it’s false memory but this just happened. I don’t even know how to live with this
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