hey guys i am an ocd magical thinking sufferer and things have never worked for me it was really bad even now i am still suffering and taking meds until someone told me a very important and mind blowing fact about ocd  symptoms started improving significantly since then   you must convince yourself that ocd is actually what you tell yourself that really changed my perspective on ocd because its undeniably true ocd is a bunch of theories you tell yourself is true from day 1 all those rituals whether weird or common are all made by one person which is yourself all those bad events and things that happened are not created by yourself they occur outside your body and now that you realized this fact are you scared of yourself obviously not are you afraid of the events happening outside you yes definitely now lets severe the connection between these 2 objects when an unfavorable event x happens your ocd will flare up and tell you that happened because you didnt your ritual you freak out and make the connection lets say in the most extreme example where ocd wins lets say my dog died and got ran over by a truck 10 minutes after i did not follow my ritual that day as i forgot to blink 5 times i contracted covid and spreaded to my entire family and killed them because i did not wash my hands that saturday morning any ocd sufferer would say yes ocd is true and freak out but lets put things into perspective who created this ritual in the first place me is this ritual man made yes why would i believe in myself that is like saying you drew your own cartoon on a piece of paper called bob and saying bob is real and exists in this world just because you drew it unless you are god which is highly unlikely so no matter how real the situation is the fear weakens if you convince yourself that ocd is just your own mental construct you created in the first place to cope with your scary thoughts and then you can start seeing the reality of the situation yes my dog died because it got ran over by a truck physically as i was careless   this blinking ritual is as good as bob my man made cartoon and its up to me to believe if its relevant or not relevant bob my creation exists and i will be scared forever of my own creation not relevant yes its just silly scared me people call ocd freaking out over things for hand washers i washed my hands 20 times a day and everyday is safe but i must keep washing or else i will kill my entire family with my virus ask yourself who created this excessive handwashing habit in the first place who was the original architect of these thoughts god no the devil no myself yes