According to my previous pdoc, it definitely can be OCD actually. There's what people call Pure O, or OCPD. Where the focal point is the obsession not the compulsion. The compulsions are what anxiety girl is referring to, obsessing is most commonly a certain thought process or train of thought that plays on a loop and drives us batty. I have that*sigh, been one hellava week obsessing about how I behaved poorly toward bf, obsessing about how to make it right. Apologizing, re-apologizing, playing everything over and over it drove me up the wall! But I had zero control, headphones, reading, singing, they provided little relief, meditation was impossible. At one point I thought that cutting myself open would make the thoughts seep out instead of loop around for days The only compulsion I had along with these looping repetitive crazy-making thoughts was explaining myself. I drove him nuts with re-explaining I think, so I explained myself in a journal instead. Doesn't matter that he won't see it, I needed to write it I guess.
Thank goodness my mind cleared up yesterday.
So far so good