like spirituality is okay and all but the idea of stuff like “the secret” and manifestation is so annoyingly anti-scientific  my therapist specifically told me that thoughts are just thoughts and 90 of them are just stupid and make no sense and have zero bearing on reality that was the thing she taught me that i keep going back to because it is so powerful against my ocd   thoughts can lead to actions like if you want a sandwich maybe that will prompt you to make or buy a sandwich if you want a relationship maybe that will prompt you to create a dating profile get a haircutnew clothes work on yourself so that maybe you will be more attractive and available to others and that could lead to dates but your thoughts are just thoughts they cannot by themselves call into existence anything maybe you don’t have the ingredients for a sandwich and can’t make one maybe you put effort into finding a relationship but no one replies to you on tinder reality is totally independent of what is inside your head   sorry for the rant but i hate this stuff so much and yes it is dangerous for people with ocd and gad we depend on the ability to separate thoughts from reality