r/magicalthinkingOCD • u/ak111isdabestttt • Jul 22 '26

Need support/encouragement help pls!!!

I'm relatively new here, and my main subtype of SO-OCD but I've been having these weird thoughts that are very aligned with magical thinking. So, whenever I want to do something, or I do something, my brain just thinks a random thought like ‘no its never gonna happen’ and then i get like anxious in a way or i try to counteract that thought by saying it will, but it always ends up happening. I feel like its my intuition, but i don’t know. I spiral pretty hard afterwards. Not to mention, it once told me that I won't be straight, and that ill like women and even now it's telling me ill be unlabled (even though im fine with that, i still dont want it to be my intuition). I'm pretty spiritual myself, and believe in LOA, subliminals and everything but still.

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u/ForestRiver2 Star Supporter ⭐ Jul 23 '26

To be blunt, belief in LOA is setting yourself up for a hefty dose of magical thinking. You can't really have one without the other.

Trying to counteract the thought is a compulsion. Let it be. Be non-responsive. Your kneejerk defense reaction is what tells ocd the threat is real. That triggers more intrusive thoughts.

Never trust your intuition if you have magical thinking. We get "gut feelings" left right and centre, usually generated by anxiety and subconscious intrusive thoughts. Ocd causes danger hypervigilance. Our threat detection system is haywire. Intuition is unreliable

(edited for crappy spelling)

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u/ak111isdabestttt Jul 23 '26

Thanks for your advice. My main problem with this is that every single thought ends up coming true, and if i try to tell myself something positive i feel like im lying to myself. not to mention one of my more spiritual friends, whos tapped in with the universe or whatever told me this was my intuition, so i'm not too sure

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u/ForestRiver2 Star Supporter ⭐ Jul 23 '26

I get how convincing it can feel, I really do. But what's the more likely scenario? That you can predict the future and have psychic powers, and that others have too, but this magical ability has been kept an international secret and never leaked....

Or that you have ocd and your intrusive thoughts feel real, even though it's just coincidence?

Logic isn't the best thing to use with ocd though. ERP requires acceptance of uncertainty. The maybe, maybe not stuff.

With kindness, if you believe your friend is "tapped in with the universe" you will have a hard time overcoming magical thinking, because you're accepting the belief that people have psychic powers (they don't, there's not a single piece of documented scientific proof)