Treat your OCD thoughts like you’d treat a narcissist.

Don’t engage. Don’t convince. Don’t argue with or react to the narcissist or what the narcissist says. Grey rock every time. Protect your energy. Don’t explain or defend yourself. Don’t give these thoughts any attention, just like you wouldn’t give the narcissist any attention. Don’t fight those thoughts or resist them. Let them run. Do not interfere. They are just background noise. Ambient. Your mind won’t just sit there and do nothing. You dream when you’re sleeping even though you’re tired and you’re supposed to be sleeping. Don’t try to say the correct thing in your head or to yourself, in order to fix or correct the false or wrong thought or feeling. Go no contact.

Don’t feed the narcissist. Don’t feed your OCD.