It goes after things you care about and things that would contradict your personality so as life goes on it can move to things that are more current. It also links with trauma too so that can cause change or adding

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OCD always changes tactics to get you to give in. If I lock my car door once it says "what if you didn't lock it and someone breaks in and steals shit?" If I say "so what? maybe they will, maybe not," it changes to "what if you accidentally lock it twice and ruin your progress against the ritual??" it's like OCD becomes a double agent acting like it's helping you fight the OCD when it's actually the OCD itself trying to get you to give in.

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Absolutely. Basically all of my “old” OCD is gone- in fact- when my chronic health issues started to get- I kind of stoped caring about anything (which is an issue in itself but whatever) and a werid side effect of that was my OCD just shut up. It was like “what if you left the oven on and the house burns down in your sleep” and I was like “so what. Sounds like a cool way to die” and eventually my brain shut up. I thought it went away entirely (1/2)

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