A reminder to everyone on here reading through other people’s posts looking for reassurance: put your phone down! Close the app! I know this feels like the most important thing in the world right now, but you’re just continuing the obsessive compulsive cycle. Listen to music, or go for a walk, or read a book. Do something that isn’t trying to prove or disprove whatever your fear is. I’m betting you’ve done this a thousand times before, and I’m betting that you still don’t have a satisfactory answer. What makes you think that this time will be different? I’m writing this to myself as much as anyone else; I just went down a reassurance rabbit hole, triggered by reading a post on here.

If it wasn't so frustrating, it would be almost funny. But my OCD tells me this so often. This time it will be different. This time you will actually hurt someone. This time your fear will become true. This time your compulsion will work. On and on.

I LOVE THIS. It is so important to ask ourselves what is the function of coming to the app? Is it to feel good, to feel like we aren't alone, to try to maybe help others? Or is it because we *just want to know*, because we feel we have to solve this problem super urgently, and if we don't open our app and find this information or get this response then we won't be able to carry on with our day? It's so important to check in with ourselves regarding the "why" behind what we do - the app in and of itself isn't bad, but anything could be a compulsion. It can be so hard to read these posts and not be able to stop, but being able to catch yourself sooner rather than later will help you not go so far down the rabbit hole.

You’re totally right girl I’ve been on the same boat

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Thank you for this! You're so right! We need to hold each other accountable on here. It's so natural to want to help each other by offering reassurance, but we're just contributing to OCD that way.