I am having a hard time staying focused and feel antsy. I am like you when I am out I am usually okay. It's when I am home my anxiety gets me. I have started coloring in designs books that you can find at most craft stores or Barnes and Noble. I know that something is bothering me but I don't focus on that but I focus on obsessive thoughts past and present. My brain is like a CD player and is going round and round and I don't know what past or present thought it will stop at. I am just feeling uneasy for the last couple of days. I hope I was some help.

It's a very hard thing to do, I try to hobbies and what not or talk to people. Exercise, play video games, read random articles online, things of that nature are what I do. Listening to a lot of music as well can help at times. It's not possible to stop the thoughts entirely though, at least from my experience but to limit them is a big help. In situations where I can't do anything to distract me, I usually just try to think about anything else, focus on something in the room around me, (or if I'm outdoors then whatever surrounding I'm in).

I'm religious so sometimes I write out my favorite scriptures to try and focus on something else .... but I think anything like that might help try writing a journal or coloring is good too .... hope you can find your thing hugs and prayers to you

Depends how far it's gone. If it's just at the beginning stages, distraction works. But if you have gone down into it you can't distract back out, so you have to go the long way.

My experience is they never last more than 3 days, and during that time it is very important to keep doing your chores. Cry, rant, whatever you need to do. Once this is properly and fully behind you, it will never be in front of you again. So make sure you experience it completely, and think about it fully, and do not stop nutting away at it until you come to a centred, sensible, positive understanding.

:)

That's what I do anyway. :D

I put obsessive thought into work of some kind, something that produces a positive, tangible result. Then a negative is turned into a positive. Obsessing is OK, great in fact, for tending to details in a work project. You just don't want to obsess about NEGATIVE things that are counterproductive to success and happiness.

I like to do digital photography and video, edit the images, edit the videos to music. I capture and edit my own family's memories. I occasionally make a short film about some cause I care about or just something I find funny, scary, touching or otherwise entertaining. It's very obsessive, very intense and ultimately satisfying.

Plus capturing and editing pictures and/or video of family events like weddings happens to be how I'm primarily making my living, so the money's an added motivator for plodding forward with the work too.

The most effective way I have found is almost treating my OCD like a separate being and talking to it, this probably sounds very weird lol but it works, I just start talking to myself telling myself how it is an illness and has no power.

You might need medicine or therapy or both. I got help from both.

Barbara

I keep myself busy with doing hobbies, exercise, working and kitchen and also talking to someone. Watching movies is also helpful.
You should try keep your mind busy and try to find happiness in small things.

I distract them...with other obsessive thoughts about something else.

I usually find some funny videos online to distract me (yes I'm talking cat videos haha) and that usually works for me.

I agree with what everyone has said here about finding something to distract you and gradually get into a different state of mind.

Things that help me are: listening to music (also helps when I'm hearing obsessive voices, which happened with my Schizoaffective Disorder), binge-watching quality TV, watching movies, yoga, exercise, Youtube videos, writing, painting, doing multiple tarot readings in one sitting, and drinking coffee. Really anything you want to do is fine as long as it distracts you.

Whenever I feel like I am obsessively worrying about something and all things. I tend to find myself doodling in my art journal. I have done it for almost 6 years now and it seems to help me a lot whenever I am worrying about things. I also like to listen to music or watch movies.

Music and movies are great! I use them to get deeply obsessively involved...with something and/or someone else other than that which I was obsessing about.

I am in the middle of yet another round of disturbing thoughts that I cant control or get rid of......just when I think I have started to control my anxiety something silly triggers it. I don't know exactly what helps, but certainly a mixture of distraction, vocalising your thoughts and fears and if you have the concentration for it (during my anxiety attacks my concentration levels plummet) reading......one thing to always remember is that it always passes xxx