What are the key ruling-thoughts you have to pay attention to when you are dealing with anxiety

The most common ruling-thoughts you need to be pay attention are:

• I can’t handle it!
• I need to know, for real
• If my obsessions are repetitive, that means they’re important
• I have to do something about this obsession, right now!
• Because I think about it, it means I want to do so!
• I need to make sure I don’t have weird thoughts,
• My obsessions are so scary that I know they’re dangerous
• No one has weird thoughts, so something is off with me
• I think, therefore I’m
• Because I think so, it makes me so
• Not doing anything about it, it’s the same as causing it.

From the book “Living Beyond OCD Using Acceptance Commitment Therapy: A Workbook for Adults”
www.actbeyondocd.com