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“OCD plants distrust — Maybe your memory, your senses, your self-knowledge can’t be trusted.”
― The Doubt Illusion: A Compact Guide to Overcome OCD with Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
― The Doubt Illusion: A Compact Guide to Overcome OCD with Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
“This is why so many people say: It feels like my OCD keeps changing. In reality, it isn’t multiplying. It’s orbiting. The spoke may change, but the hub doesn’t move. One person cycles through contamination, checking, harm, and relationship themes — yet underneath, the feared self is the same: You are careless and dangerous. Another rotates through morality, confession, and memory doubts — yet the feared self is steady: You are corrupt. This is why the fears feel so personal. They’re not random. They’re tailored — custom-made to fit your deepest concerns. OCD does not waste its costumes on identities you don’t care about. It always performs under your brightest spotlight.”
― The Doubt Illusion: A Compact Guide to Overcome OCD with Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
― The Doubt Illusion: A Compact Guide to Overcome OCD with Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
“A thought feels heavy, serious, morally charged — and you mistake the weight for truth. After all, ordinary imagination is light, playful, whimsical. But this feels different. This feels grave. It’s like hearing a voice in a cathedral. The acoustics make it echo, resonate, expand — but the echo is not proof of divine authority. It’s proof of architecture.”
― The Doubt Illusion: A Compact Guide to Overcome OCD with Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
― The Doubt Illusion: A Compact Guide to Overcome OCD with Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy


