Felt desperate craving for external validation from intrusive thoughts
Hi. When I first got intrusive thoughts of my girlfriend cheating on me I would always get a wave of sadness and anxiety when they came up. I then started to feel this desperate need for external validation from everybody and made me much more insecure which I wasn’t before. Validation from My girlfriend, family, friends and random people especially at a level I never thought could be possible. I never really felt this way prior to OCD. Wondering if anyone knows why this is and what to do about it