Pure O thoughts

When it comes to this type of ocd what is the best way of challenging it head on?

A thought appears an obsessive one you're familiar with, you do your usual panicking and anxiety rises then you respond by doing your safety behaviours to null the thought/s and you're fine for a while but it comes back shortly after anyway and it's just an hourly fight.

So the problem is the safety behaviours you're doing but even if you decide to go against the safety behaviours how do you even know your not doing a secret safety behaviour your not even aware off? It doesn't help when your depressed and feel crap all the time because it's difficult to even tell if your feeling relief by facing your ocd fears and not reacting to them. When you're mood is constantly grey.

Anybody got any advice on this particular question, how to challenge and fight the thoughts the right way?

I bought brain lock about 3 or 4 years ago, is that book worth re reading and using that method solely to tackle pure o?

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Well I am not an experienced person with OCD but I do a breathing exercise as first aid that helps me deal with anxiety and depression, but could work well as a first aid in OCD.

Here it is in all its simplicity. But it works. The mind cannot focus on two things at once so when you count the breaths, there is little room for worry and a natural result is to experience relaxation. Great at bedtime, waking up or anytime I have a brain train derailment.

Silently count as I breathe naturally one on the inhale, two on the exhale, three on the inhale, continuing up to 10. Then start at one again.

Have you tried exposure therapy to address your thoughts? I know a lot of people with pure-O benefit from exposure therapy. You would need to work closely with a mental health therapist though.

I'm no mental health professional, just another OCD sufferer so take this lightly and like the others said, go see a mental health professional. To me it sounds like you are obsessing about compulsing. Your methods of fighting off compulsions are turning around to become the thing you are obsessing about. It seems that you are trying to make your ways of fighting off compulsions perfect and checking to see if you have relief, which makes you feel the opposite. To actually get relief you need to go against these new obsessions. On Psychogy Today there is an article called Obsessing about Obsessing: When OCD Goes Meta about someone who had similar problems (Sorry can't link). Once again, your best bet to achieving relief is to see a therapist. Hope you feel better soon! OCD sucks.

That's very likely what's happened but it makes no sense still. As soon as I find a way of getting past them I have the 6 hours of freedom then I begin thinking about how I achieved it and I'm back to square one. I honestly can't stand those sites anymore I used to visit them daily when I was really bad a couple years ago but the fact that I'm still suffering now just shows how shallow the information is. Who makes those articles, who writes all these self help books? People who study this **** in college and read books about it and talk to sufferers not actual sufferers themselves. Then you always have those judgemental ones who say in their stupid 3 step programmes about clients who still had problems after using their "cures" in 3 in steps or whatever bs they're trying to flog that it was the clients fault.

Some years ago I looked into a book like the secret it was Esther and hicks and wow did that f me up. I'm still suffering from that disgusting bs. Like I highly advise anyone with any sort of mental health problems not to read anything associated with the secret that stuff ****s with your mind until you start thinking like a machine.

I honestly lost faith in psychology and Ive got an appointment with one soon next month and I'm not looking forward to being judged by them, honestly they really don't give a **** they're just doing their jobs but I question their motives and abilities to actually understand someone else's problems before putting their realities infront of someone else's. How easy it should be because it's easy for them so this person must be A or B etc.

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I know it's hard. They think they entirely know how we think and can fix it all, but in reality they know very small parts of it. They will never understand the agony, frustration, anxiety, and confusion because they are fortunate enough not to ever experience anything like it. They think the problem with this is in us, not them.
Sometimes it seems hard to believe that there are t's out there that are kind and understanding.I believe there is a person out there for each and every one of us that understands us and can help, even if it takes an eternity to find them. Being young, I am actually strongly considering going into psychiatry because of the lack of actually decent mental health professionals.