help me focus

Can anyone help me with ways to focus or things to do so that I do not obsess on thoughts for hours or even days.
Any ideas would be something to try I would appreciate any help

if thinking too much makes you uncomfortable, then try to believe that you hate being uncomfortable... just practice staying comfortable, and not doing the things which make you uncomfortable... it worked for my OCD issue.

also i used to constantly tell myself what to do, and how to do things, and this went away after i practiced making myself believe that i hated telling myself what to do and that it made me uncomfortable, and i hated being uncomfortable...

let me know if it helps you...

Hey when I get In that mode I put on some music and take a nice bubble bath so I want have to deal with the thoughts and put on my head phones with the music cause Iam sick of ocd .And that works and I also go outside and sit on the porch and focus on other things like having fun cause Iam not going to ocd ruin my life like it did last year.Good luck huggs

Hi there,

Not sure if this would work for you, but my therapist and I would set aside some time during the day to meditate on those bothersome thoughts I obsessed about, and then after we were done I made a deal not to obsess anymore about them. It's very hard to do at first, to set a chunk of time aside, but it works!

You don't even need a therapist to do it, you can do it by yourself as well. Just start with whatever amount of time you need, say, 15 minutes...then you'll find that eventually you'll get bored by your obsessive thoughts, and won't want to think about them anymore!

Other things that help me are distractions, such as listening to music or hanging out with friends.

Wishing you the best!