I need some OCD advice

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So my signature has all my diagnosis in it and I have this OCD that I have to believe all of my diagnosis and I have been having a battle in my mind as to whether I actually have GAD and not just OCD. I have been able to agree with all the diagnosis but my OCD just won't let me stop thinking about it even though I want to. I just want to feel content and stop thinking about it.

So how do you guys think I should go about stopping me from dwelling on it?

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There are drugs that can control GAD--for some, the side effects are well worth the overall improvement to their quality of life.

I don't have OCD, but sometimes I worry that I will forget something if I stop thinking/talking about it, so I go and write (type) it all up. Then I know I won't forget because it's all right there, and I can move on to think about other things. Maybe that would work for you?

Other suggestions: Distract yourself with something. You could try playing a game, reading, watching a good movie or something on TV, etc.

That is the difference between OCD and Aspie one track mind thinking. An OCD literally can't stop thinking about the obsession. An Aspie just needs a shiny new toy.

i have the same problem, i also have OCD and severe GAD. i do dwell on these things too, i try to look at solid facts and try not to over think things.

Repeating the statement "I don't know, and I don't want to know, and that is okay" has helped me in the past with my OCD and rumination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.
After his final hospital discharge in 1970, Nash lived in de Lardé's house as a boarder. This stability seemed to help him, and he learned how to consciously discard his paranoid delusions.[47] He stopped taking psychiatric medication and was allowed by Princeton to audit classes. He continued to work on mathematics and eventually he was allowed to teach again. In the 1990s, de Lardé and Nash resumed their relationship, remarrying in 2001.

This is the most significant management of mental illness without medications that I can recall.

I sometimes have OCD traits when it comes to things being lined up or an important event happening in a certain way. What I've done that is very helpful is understand if things aren't in order that is foesnt make me a bad person. It doesn't matter in the large scheme of things, I didn't mean to make it happen, and a miss aligned item doesn't determine who I am.