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(Trigger warning) Magical thinking trouble

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(Trigger warning) Magical thinking trouble

Postby timmyliao » Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:33 pm

Ever since I was a little kid, I've had superstitious magical thinking OCD. Ill give you a summary of what I'm dealing with right now. Ill think of something negative or bad, and get this negative feeling of anger. Then I'll think of something bad happening, and I feel like when I exhale, I breathe out this negative energy that can "curse" someone (or me) if I breathe out in their direction. To cope with this, I do either two things:
1) I'll try to force myself to do the same rituals of thinking something negative, and breathing out ON PURPOSE to prove that it doesn't work
OR
2) I'll try to "cancel" out the curse by thinking of something positive and exhaling "positive" energy.
Obviously the magical aspect is the part where I feel like I can exhale positive and negative energy and curse people, and the worry comes from being hurt or hurting other people.
Has anyone had to deal with this before? and Do you know how I should deal with this?
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