I have this very particular form of OCD where I might have to make a choice "will I take this spoon or this spoon?" - "shall I go left here or right?". Then I think of possible consequences - things that might happen if I do this or that if I do or not do something. It makes life really challenging and complicated.
Then the weird thing is I have very strong intuition - so sometimes I think - "this won't matter" and then not doing it I notice I missed an true intuition.
I read that the kind of overthinking makes the combination of intuition and OCD really tricky. I notice often that if I don't follow the intuition I can go trough it. Exposure also means my days might suck as when I didn't follow and intuition or when I think I didn't I might be thinking about that for a long time after and I never now for sure if something was intuition or not. Sometimes it is ambiguous.
I just wonder how to deal witht this. Is this recognisable for any of you?
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Yes! This is the type I have as well. What has helped me is working on trusting myself to k own when I’m having a “real” feeling vs. the ocd, for example, choosing one spoon over another is the ocd. Having persistent questions or concerns or gut feelings over, say, taking a new job, is legit.
It’s challenging because we need to separate ocd and anxiety from real concerns and gut feelings. For me, I know that I’m panicky at night but feel a sense of clarity in the mornings. I know not to trust my “feelings” at night or in the midst of panic. But when I’m feeling calm, I check in to see if those feelings are valid or if they can be something else. I hope that makes sense.
Changing your way of thinking thought processes in general what's the end result death having OCD myself you can devise ways of thoughts to cater for yourself can be different for each person realising for myself it's the shock chemical produced in the brain that cause these feelings and disorders and can affect the skin in the chemistry of the stomach having learning difficulties dyslexia and a bit of bipolar I've never taking medication it's like if to say we're going to die in a nuclear war feeling there's things that you have to do eccetera eccetera brain chatter in general I used to say to myself you grow old and die anyway or you might have a fear of Dying of a cold aids the big a blood a fear of contamination but you do really get old and die is it death what people are afraid of so I looked at death and analyse it what are you missing out on worrying about it Superstition side of it is like osberges but you know it's not the truth because other people don't think or feel like that knowing this telling yourself this can help as you know some people beleave in everlasting life divine intervention to stop newclear war foretold stuff wich sustisickly seprizenly works best ov all seeing it's the law that' we live under that's why we don't eat each other.
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