northpaul

Gate

Brush

Sugar

Rock (&)

Tern

Salad

Just thought I would point out that thia game is already ruuning in the Chatroom!

Iron

Coming from your son I would say that is something positive to dwell on Staying in bed moves you into negative mental territory. Once again what can you do to get positive? How can you get busy?

Looking

Why drag up a ''none event'' from 20 years ago? Typical OCD reaction if you let it get a hold. Dont let it get a hold. Because you got on with real life.

Medal

Yes if you keep doing it you wil be in a perpetual loop of compulsion and relief. Yes.

Slippery

Jet

Guilty about my response to thoughts! (your title) You are not guilty of anything in this case . You have an illness, and in that case you can get help. Focus on the bit ''I want my life''.

Toad

Tool

(of the) Wild

Let,s look at these two statements. In my experience, being left on my own exacerbates the depression and that gives fertile ground for my OCD to thrive. If I make a concious decision to get out of my flat and talk ro people about anything and everything then this helps tremendously to stall the sllde into depression and OCD. What can you do to stop looking inwards and look outwards instead.?

Humid

Refridgerator.

I will copy and paste the reply I posted to your last topic? (or question) that you posted just 4 hours ago: 'Perhaps you could go and do something completely different and dont sit ruminting over and over the same thought? If we give OCD thinking an inch then it will take a mile.' Trying to analyse each thought that comes into out heads is very much due to our distorted OCD thinking. Perhaps try letting the thought be and get on with something else? Posing questions and topics like this is just fuel for the OCD.

Perhaps you could go and do something completely different and dont sit ruminting over and over the same thought? If we give OCD thinking an inch then it will take a mile.

This is an interestng phenomonem. This is what I experience: Often when I dream I seem to be repeatedly doing things over and over again. This is akin to some of the repeat checking behaviours I do when fully awake and conscious. The difference is that when I wake up it all stops and I dont recall it. Yes, in my dream it does all seem so 'real'. That is the dilemma - how minds can easily forget the subconscious but the same behaviours can cause distress when we are conscious.