It is completely okay. I fought with it for a very long time and felt super ashamed of myself to even think that I have thought of whatever because as you know, you literally think of everything all the time.

My latest cooping aside from simply not riding the thoughts when they come, was to convince myself that my brain is good at warning me about potential bad things. It always generates horrible scenarios as a way of guiding me. It is annoying, but I like it.

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I know some hate on sam harris for his "interesting" stances on multiple issues, but regardless of that, his Waking up app taught me a lot on how to be a good observer to my own thoughts and thinking patterns.

Mindfulness, framing, stoicism, etc a lot of trendy terms these days, but there is something that one can learn and from experience I can say it is helpful to make peace with OCD thoughts.