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- 3y
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- 3y
I just try to catch the reassurance compulsion and say to myself or out loud if that helps better (sometimes it does) -- “i acknowledge that I'm feeling fear, and I acknowledge my compulsions are trying to reduce my anxiety, but I release this compulsion, and embrace the unknown.” Honestly, some variation of that, whatever works for you, but basically, catching it while it's happening and verbally telling yourself to release it has greatly helped me. Hope it helps. ❤️🩹❤️🩹
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- 3y
We actually have control over this. No we can’t help if a thought pops in our head but we can’t engage with it.
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- 3y
What are tips on how. Because it seems like I automatically give myself a response
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- 3y
@cozycat The more you practice noticing your thoughts and catching yourself ruminating the better you will get at it.
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- 23w
I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!
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- 19w
I cannot for the life of me stop ruminating or checking how I feel about thoughts or focusing on thoughts or creating more thoughts. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I want to scream. I try not to ruminate about the thoughts, but trying not to just makes me think about them more. I try not to check, but somehow, I still check. I want to let a thought sit in the background, but the more I try not to focus on it, the more I end up focusing on it. I don’t want the thought to expand because that feels like engaging with it, but I can’t just stop it from expanding. It feels impossible. People keep saying I’m in control of my compulsions, and maybe that’s true for the physical ones. But when it comes to the mental compulsions, I swear I have no control. It feels like I’m missing something that everyone else seems to have, like there’s some tool they’re using that I don’t have. Controlling mental compulsions has never felt possible for me. I’m starting to fear them. And every time someone says I’m in control and can just choose not to do them, I end up beating myself up even more when they happen. Or when I *choose* I guess. I don’t know anymore. If this is my fault, if I’m responsible for this, then what does that make me? I feel like a monster. I am at my wits’ end. How am I supposed to control mental compulsions when it feels like they control me? I freak out when they happen. They don’t bring me relief, they just make me panic. I want it to stop so bad.
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- 5w
My biggest is ruminating, i talk and talk and over share with myself and others Like what are some exposures?
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