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Accepting the thought is there is NOT the same as agreeing with it. But if you did agree that doesn't make the thought true. For example, someone says "Grass is pink" If I agree, does that change the fact that grass is green? No it doesn't not. My agreement does not change the facts in any way. The same is true with your thoughts. OCD thoughts are NEVER true. Just because they feel true, doesn't mean they are.
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Thatâs actually the best tactic to beat OCD, eventually the thoughts go away after you show your brain you donât need to fear them
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but they arenât just not bothering me but i am actually unconconciously accepting them as true without thinking about it
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@lmaocdđđ„° Think of it it more as accepting uncertainty, you donât need to think itâs definitely true. Just think to yourself âmaybe, maybe notâ and donât let the thoughts cause you anxiety. Itâs when the thoughts cause anxiety that our brains ruminate and obsess. When they donât cause anxiety, we are able to move on and live life
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@Anon1294 Hey i have posted something too would really help if you had some words for me too!!!
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@Anon1294 but if u accept the thoughts as true not as a tactic, but just involuntarily, they are ego dystonic and then that means itâs real
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@lmaocdđđ„° Youâre not accepting it as real, youâre accepting the uncertainty
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@Anon1294 no i am like i get thoughts and iâll think to myself âyes i like thatâ or âi agreeâ and i wonât even realize i thought that until later
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@lmaocdđđ„° Thatâs an intrusive thought within an intrusive thought
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@Anon1294 i feel like iâm the only one who gets those
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Will the doubt go away also???
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@lmaocdđđ„° No youâre not at all!! I get that too, thatâs why OCD is so hard to overcome
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@jfount11117 it goes away eventually probably
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@jfount11117 Yes once you retrain your brain to understand that you donât have to fear it, you feel less doubt
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Hey thatâs a really good idea! I keep struggling with false memory so I keep walking into every situation thinking whatâs the worst thing I could do and then my brain convinces me Iâve done it
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there is also a concept called diffusion - it's important to recognize that thoughts do not equal your character or who YOU are. they are not necessarily true. you cannot necessarily say it's NOT who you are - that's the uncertainty piece. but diffusion means the ability to be able to separate from your thoughts and know that just because you have a thought it does not necessarily mean that that is indicative in any way of what you want or think or believe
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- 25w
Since I started to accept that maybe some of the problems i deal with might be things that i should accept cause either way I feel shame if i have these thoughts, and i think that being that person is shameful. I'm struggling these days and I noticed I have thoughts about God not being real, not helping me, questioning if its real and these thoughts makes me feel shame. But i keep accepting it cause Im tired that i feel like im lying to myself and everytime i feel like im avoiding the truth, so I try to accept it that its okay that im having these problems(I do the same with suicidal ocd,I start to accept maybe its real) but since im doing this I noticed it makes me depreassed cause of shame. Made things worse, I always spin about shame that it might be true, i try tk accept it but it doesnt work, I feel like maybe i should go back and label every feeling and thought as ocd but i know i wouldnt be free cause i would feel like im trying to make myself feel better... But if its ocd, how can I decide its that if I have the emotions like im losing my faith, I get angry when i hear about faith, sometimes i feel like i really question it, have thoughts like i dont want to have faith...
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Whenever anyone starts to feel like their thoughts are less triggering or they feel a moment of happiness/ relief OCD tells you that you want the thoughts back or you actually like having the thoughts and maybe thats just the person I really am? I feel like im going insaneđą
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Iâve been suspecting for awhile now that I might have OCD once I started to look into it. Often times I get a lot of thoughts of me being a terrible awful person and being afraid that I donât even know if Iâm aware of that. I try my hardest to âdiffuseâ these thoughts constantly. I go over them and remind myself that that isnât me but I also wonder if thatâs what I truly think. Iâve experienced this for as long as I can remember. Iâve always had instrusive horrible thoughts, even from when I was a child. Itâs always been background noise to me but sometimes I tune in and scare myself and often wonder what my motives are. I donât want to have these thoughts anymore but they keep coming back. I donât like constantly worrying if my friends all hate me or if anyone around me thinks something is completely wrong with me. Itâs extremely hard to operate properly already and constantly being streamlined these thoughts 24/7 just makes it more difficult. I have to try to think of literally anything else to prevent myself from having intrusive thoughts but even that doesnât help. It feels incredibly disabling and it often times prevents me from doing things I actually have to do out of fear because of those âwhat ifsâ. I just live in fear. I constantly worry even when there isnât anything to worry about. I am incredibly paranoid. I feel like anything can happen at any given moment when I am not in control and itâs exhausting. I donât want to live like this anymore.
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