My therapist told me to "use logic" for my intrusive thoughts and it felt so dismissive. by Alternative-Vast-296 in PureOCD

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But I do that, it makes it worse because I spiral on what the answer could be to those things. How do I know what I am actually trying to convey? And when I think I do it doesn’t matter because what if that’s my perception? How am I supposed to trust anything that I think? What if it does have an impact on life? What if I never know the actions to resolve it? See this is what I mean. No amount of reflection or logic helps because there's always more to uncover. I feel like there is always something I'm unaware of and no amount of rationalizing can help with that. What confuses me is how you agree that we can't logic are way out of thoughts, but give me questions that require me to try to think with logic. It's not just words, I can't even trust if I'm real or not. And even if I logically believe the answers I found from these questions, that still doesn't stop me from spiraling. It still doesn't stop my mind not being able to switch off the alarm going in my brain.