Dear Zenith:

“I felt better when I read the article. But…“- But OCD took that feeling-better away from you, telling you that your case is different from the article-author’s case, therefore her solutions (“1. Accept the relationship as it is…2. Challenge your faulty beliefs…3. Practice a new way and let go of expectations”) don’t apply to you.

But the author’s solutions do apply to you, Zenith, regardless of this or that difference (no 2 stories are identical).

The author wrote: “I became aware of this mantra that I had been repeating in my head: ‘I don’t belong.’ This belief was like an infection, poisoning my mind and tainting how I saw our friendship”-

– her mantra/ core belief was “I don’t belong”.  How would you word your mantra in regard to this friendship, the mantra  that keeps adding fuel to your OCD and making you suffer?

anita