u/Fantastic-Base2879

Hey everyone
I just want to know if anyone else experiences this and what do you do to help make these thoughts not affect your life and decisions
For example I be doing a normal thing like eating and then I have a bad or scary thought and I convince myself that I shouldn’t complete what Im doing like I shouldn’t eat this piece of food or I shouldn’t use this spoon because now it’s contaminated by the thought Idk it doesn’t make any sense but it sometimes terrifies me and it’s making everything hard to do like why is my brain like this and I feel like people who don’t have these thoughts are so lucky
They can pick up a career hobbies random things from a store without having a single intrusive thought
I wish my mind was like that

Hey everyone
I’m new here but,
Does anyone have stories of ERP or ignoring a persistent thought and how it turned out they were fine and nothing bad happened,
Thank you everyone!

Hey everyone,
I am currently unemployed and I got a job offer but I have a very scary OCD thought telling me if I take the offer a specific detailed bad thing will happen to me
Just because I had that thought when I picked up the phone when the HR called
And I know it makes no sense but I’m so scared and I feel Id rather be safe and unemployed than take the job.