When it stops

[tripletiger1200]

For those of you who struggle with constant intrusive thoughts, how do you deal with things when things seem normal? Sometimes I have moments of peace, but then I realize that I have not had any intrusive thoughts recently and that starts them back up again, and it frustrates me. Other times I have the thoughts but with little to no stress or fear involved, and it feels like I almost don't care that I'm thinking these awful things, so I worry that maybe I do believe them, or that they're no longer intrusive. How do you guys deal with things like this, when the stress stops and you don't know how to react?

 

[OCD=Owie]

For those of you who struggle with constant intrusive thoughts, how do you deal with things when things seem normal? Sometimes I have moments of peace, but then I realize that I have not had any intrusive thoughts recently and that starts them back up again, and it frustrates me. Other times I have the thoughts but with little to no stress or fear involved, and it feels like I almost don't care that I'm thinking these awful things, so I worry that maybe I do believe them, or that they're no longer intrusive. How do you guys deal with things like this, when the stress stops and you don't know how to react?

This all sounds familiar. Once you stop worrying in one way, it just starts back up in another way.

It took me awhile to figure things out and get to a point where I didn't feel such an urge to react to such thoughts. Basically though, you have to get into the habit of giving yourself some leeway. You feel like you might be sinning by thinking something, but you try to force your hyper-active conscience to get a little more lax. If you can stop giving your obsessive thoughts attention, they will start to go away in time.