My OCD has certainly mutated and has taken my two biggest themes, but not in the way I would have expected. With this magical thinking about outside forces putting thoughts in my head, I often set up "challenges" to prove things. The vast majority are stupid and don't come true. In the midst of all this I still have some POCD. I still get groinals at times, and I sometimes avoid triggering material. Well, yesterday I set up a new challenge. This was basically "My groinals will go away." I saw this video with a kid in it, and the groinals popped up. I remembered what my challenge had been and as I was thinking of it, the groinals started to diminish significantly. This bothered me a whole lot and I've been testing myself all day. I've found that simply saying they will go away isn't sufficient, but if I really take that thought to heart, (if that makes since) a lot of it goes away. I've been testing myself for some possible reasons. I decided that next time, I would avoid setting up this challenge, and instead focus on my heartbeat (which would probably get faster since I'm anxious). I found that it may slightly reduce them but I can't tell. I am now afraid that there really is something above and beyond OCD that's controlling me, and it's driving me insane. I'm going to try to avoid testing myself for the rest of the day, but I haven't been this anxious in a long time so I don't think I could really do anymore testing.
This is so weird! I never thought I would be worried about NOT getting groinals. Do groinals happen because you don't want them to happen? Am I just focusing on something else when I do these tests?