OCD attacks me when I wake up

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When I wake I'm pretty vulnerable to OCD. I was so exhausted today and OCD took advantage of that. I caught myself ruminating when I woke up and knew this would wreck my day.

Then I opened Brainlock by Jeffrey Schwartz and read about how these are just false messages coming from my brain. I actually started to believe this and it brought my peace and was so liberating. I started laughing at my OCD for how it could fool me so often. I started to actually believe it was false and lies, and this act helped me break out of the cycle.

I think we're afraid to believe it's lies, because of "what if?" But what if we really believed??

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