How to stop checking my OCD thoughts
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- Опубліковано 11 сер 2020
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Yep checking always makes me spiral down and it gets worse. My life is better when I am not checking and trying to avoid the nebulous bad my OCD made up.
Hows it going whit ocd now ?
@@stedysteelsted9174 actually much better nowadays. Working on checking compulsions has saved my life lmao
@@danic2514 idk how to stop checking if I’m ruminating.
@@lechinajames5330 it sounds weird but making a conscious decision to stop. Simply just realize that you can always catch yourself if you're ruminating and don't be perfectionistic. It can be quite a kneejerk response to ruminate after being triggered but what's important is that you know how to stop. Continuously monitoring for rumination will keep you stuck in the cycle. The whole point is being able to let go and that just takes practice. just stop if you notice it and let yourself feel however you want about it.
@@danic2514 how to stop checking if I’m ruminating? Like whenever I don’t ruminate after a while my brain will just tell me “hey, you haven’t been ruminating for a while, good job!” And I don’t ruminate after that but how to stop checking altogether?
If you live a life full of checking, it's almost as if you have had suffered as much as someone who has had their house fall down on them in embers. Let go, accept this may happen, and live on, since nothing has happened.
Anybody else thinking about what they’ve forgotten to check as he’s talking?
Yes
😘
100 percent
Yep
Excellent point
Life itself is uncertain, acceptance and compassion for myself.
brilliant!
Exactly what I’m going through
Me too & it it drives me crazy sometimes.
How are you doing now
But how do you resist checking when you have health anxiety OCD, especially when they say that early detection is key?
Is it mental checking if it’s to see if my intrusive thought will come up in certain scenarios? Almost like checking would I think of the awful thought in this situation?
how does someone resist it if it happens right before bed
Same
My ocd chekking rarely trigger when im going to bed some how idea of me burning whit house is not so bad as idea of it burning when im not home
True enough, there are better arguments against overchecking than for it, but, can you reason with OCD while in the grip of it? Logic isn't enough to treat OCD. There seems to be a disconnect between the intellect and the affect in OCD. It's probably why ERP gets better results than simple reasoning.
stop checkingggg
the 'reward' from checking and feeling relief is very seductive. I'm currently trying to practice exposure therapy by not responding to my triggers and it's quite tough!