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Once you conquer one obsession, boom, another one pops in. It's like you are use to obsessing, and when you conquer one obsession, you feel out of place with yourself because you are no longer obsessing, so now your brain needs something worse to obsess about, and that's when it happens. You create a totally new, bizarre obsession and now you are back to square one. This is what happens with me anyway.

I have made a lot of progress with not reacting to my obsessions, and have neutralized most of them. It's when the new, more intense obsessions come where I struggle. However I am finding it easier to deal with these new obsessions now that I have conquered some of my other ones. For me, it's almost like the more practice I get not reacting to obsessions, the easier it gets when a new one comes. Almost like the more experience you have, the easier it will be to deal with a new obsession.

At first I didn't know how I was going to beat this, but with a lot of determination and education about pure ocd, I decided it was time to give it a go. I have been doing well over the last month, and especially over the last week. It really is possible to beat this guys. Just remember, they are just thoughts, and it ends there. They are meaningless words, and that's it. The content of the thoughts is pretty irrelevant, it's all just ocd bizarre garbage.

Try not reacting to these thoughts, and take them on one at a time. Find a good ocd specialist to help you do this, and I think this ocd can be beat.

Id agree with that football00 try taking the thoughts with a pinch of salt and try and carry on with whatever your doing in your day. This trick is very tough at first, however with practice the thoughts will no longer matter. I am writing this down but at the same time trying to tell myself this as i am suffering with intrusive thoughts too.

Hello all,

All these techniques that I've learned all help, but it's like football00 said once you get over one, here comes another one. At one point I was obsessing the "crazy" issue...or how to figure out which thoughts are genuine! OMG, I would ruminate about this all day. I'd have to be really busy, or entertained in order to free my mind of the worry. But we can't be busy 24/7 it's impossible. Now my worry seems to be......looking inside myself. In other words, how does the brain know between right and wrong?? How do I know these feelings are genuine? and it spirals several ways. Not all of these thoughts produce fear, but they do get me going....ruminating all day about this. I know this sounds silly, but how do we ACCEPT them, when they SCARE YOU to think in different ways....

Finally someone who talks about the harming your loved ones issue. I suffered through this 20 years ago! I about drove myself insane! They medicated (debilitated) me for 6 years. I slept 17 - 20 hours a day and missed 6 years of my kids childhood! What a waste of precious time. I'd like to say when it was over it was over...but I can't. My symptoms and thought processes just move from one thing to another and the most fearful one is :Losing my FAITH and Salvation". Questions like is there really a God? Or the nagging laughing voice that resounds "religion is crap and Jesus could not have existed" and on and on and on! It wears me out everyday! I KNOW God exists. I KNOW Jesus is my savior. And even now the thoughts are nagging "How DO you know?" LOL The greatest tragedy in my life would be to lost my faith. I try to tell myself "God said it, I believe it, that settles it!" Yeah, right! Then I start thinking God is hearing what I am thinking and condemning for the doubt and questioning... God has shown himself to me and proven his existence over and over agin in my life so I really know he is there. The most peace I ever experience is when I know and feel him with me. So why does this overwhelming fear come over me with these idiotic thoughts???? Am I really just examining my belief system on a deeper level or is it just the OCD and something to obsess over? Does anyone else have this obsessive thought pattern over their beliefs?