Thought?

[Guest carlile1980]

Hi everyone if you have read any of my feeds lately its basically false memory OCD, is a good way of thinking of it if you wouldn't do it today you wouldn't do it today? Is that a good tool to identify OCD thoughts! RJC

[PolarBear]

I take it you mean if you didn't do it yesterday you won't do it today. Look, that's trying to rationalize with the OCD, a way to convince yourself that you wouldn't or couldn't do something bad. That's basically thinking of a good thought to negate the bad thoughts you get (obsessions). That makes doing so a compulsion and that's something you don't want to do.

Far better is taking a, who cares, kind of approach to your thoughts. Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't. It doesn't matter. Let the thoughts pop up in your head and do nothing with them. Don't try to negate them. Don't try to analyze them. Don't try to work them out. Just leave them alone and let them float around.