Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Tyson Reuter
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“Ahh, that feels better. Now I can stop.”
With OCD, even though you can replay the memory of feeding your dog in your mind, you still can’t help thinking, “What if I didn’t? What if I forgot?”
Just because you think about something in your mind, it doesn’t mean it’ll come true in real life.
even if you think really, really hard about it—mean that you will actually hit a home run? Do the thoughts in your mind, just by themselves, have the power to make a home run happen?
Thoughts are just thoughts. Thoughts are not facts. And a lot of the time, thoughts are not true at all.
I can’t stop thinking about bad things.
After I do something, I’m not sure I really did it.
think I made a mistake, even when I did something very carefully.
I worry that my homework isn’t done right, even after I check it.
feel like I need to wash my hands a lot.
I use sanitizer a lot when my hands feel dirty.
ask people questions that I know the answer to.
I need to count certain things.
I do things over and over again until they feel “just right.”
repeat the same question again and again.
When I have a bad thought, I have to repeat a certain word.
When I put something away, I check again and again to be sure it’s there.
have to walk in a certain way that is difficult.
“I’m not my thoughts. And thoughts can be changed.”
With the “Thought Changer” tool, you look at the evidence and the facts—like a detective would—and change your thoughts to go with the evidence.
Can I be 100 percent sure that this will happen?
Can I really see into the future? Am I a fortune teller? Do I have a special crystal ball?
Are there other ways to look at this?
What’s the worst that could happen?
How bad would that be? Could I get through it?
“I’m having a thought that --------------------------------------------------------------------- .”
OCD makes you doubt whether you did or didn’t do something. For
That pesky thought becomes a little weaker.
Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can only hurt us if we let them.
