OCD and Law of Attraction

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Not sure if this is the right place for this but I could really do with some opinions because I've got myself so worried.

I started following the LOA to help with achieving goals, better job, more focus.

But as someone with OCD it's got me so worried - the mantra "what we think we attract" has left me panicking. My OCD centres around worrying that I will lose the person I love most. So I'm in a constant worry that because I've spent years thinking about losing them (OCD) that it will happen (LOA).

I can't seem to move past this.

I am seeing a therapist but it's early days and it's a slow process we haven't started on this area yet.

Anyone know anything about LOA?

Kindly, I would suggest that something like law of attraction is a bad idea for someone with obsessive tendencies. It is just going to encourage you into those harmful patterns of rumination. It feeds that monster.

I'm not a fan of those type of fake psycho-fluff books anyway, I think they are utter guff but can be absolutely harmful in cases like yours.

It's bollocks.
Really, thinking about things does not make them happen. Positive thinking and visualisation are tools to help yourself - but they don't charge anything externally.
OCD is hard. Hope the therapy helps.

Thanks for replying. Is there a better place to post this for more replies?

Law of attraction is victim blaming. I also worry I'm 'attracting what I fear the most' and that all the bad things that have happened I've attracted. I haven't. I hear you OP.

If the law of attraction worked we'd all win the lottery and be millionaires wouldn't we?

Thinking about something doesn't make it happen. If you think about something and make a plan and start actively working to make it happen - yes that might help.
But thinking alone, no.

Law of attraction isn't real. Fill a glass with water , put it on a table and focus on it tipping over. No matter how much you focus on it it won't happen.

Law of attraction, manifestation, prayer, and OCD fears around found harm - it's all magical thinking.

A competent therapist will be able to help you work through all this. Taking advice off a forum wouldn't be a good idea.

Does your therapist have experience in OCD?

More replies or replies that offer confirmation bias?

It's absolutely bollocks. Just a money making wheeze to con the gullible.

Yes I think it's nonsense at best and in many cases psychologically dangerous.

Your worries will not bring any harm to your loved ones

I struggle with this too. I have OCD and would always worry that if I was thinking something negative i could be accidentally 'manifesting' it to happen.

The thing that helped me was to visualise my OCD as this annoying horrible gremlin (my therapist told me to visualise it as something physical, or to even give it a name). Anyway I then thought to myself that the universe can tell apart my real genuine and pure feelings from this horrible gremlin that puts these doubts in my head. So if i start thinking about the car crashing I think 'that's the gremlin talking and the universe knows that's not what I truly want'. Not sure if it makes sense now I say it out loud but it helps me to look at it that way.

LOA is a very first world phenomenon.

I doubt people in war torn countries have
" Attracted" poverty, rape, and destruction.