lou47
- Date posted
- 3y
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 3y
Last time I had it it went away in about 2 months it was the most misrable 2 months of my life honestly but i think it will get better i just had my first after exactly one year of feeling fine and its been a misrable week and a half
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 3y
I know it’s terrible but we gotta hope it goes away one day
jfount11117jfount11117
- Date posted
- 3y
R u powering it up some how through reassurance, avoidance, or checking? Sounds like ERP is doing it’s job cause anxiety is down. To get rid of the obsession you have to ignore it and dwell on it. At least that is how I understand it.
jfount11117jfount11117
- Date posted
- 3y
*NOT dwell on it
lou47lou47
- Date posted
- 3y
Thank you. Yes all of my other obsessions have gone away eventually and when I have done erp. I am just fed up of waiting for it to go now. I have had this obsession for 3 months now and the last ine I had probably for about 4 or 5 months on and off. It was a scary one like they all are but this current one is just crazy. The people who helped me out of my last one 2 years ago are now the focus of my current obsession!! And this is all due to Covid and my views....they fell out with me because of my views on Covid but almost straight away I got anxiety and the OCD said it is because of that....needless to say the thoughts that have follwed are very intrusive and upsetting but I just cant seem to get out of it. I have had all of these scenarios in my head that they have told people about my intrusive thoughts i had two years ago and that THEY believed them!! It is just soooooooooo ridiculous. They read up about OCD and even said that they worried like me when I told them my thoughts back then....the OCD has just TWISTED AND TWISTED it to make me believe that they really thought my thoughts 2 years ago were real.....it is just bonkers but it wont leave my head
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 3y
Yeah bro it will be its only been a week and half and im like man how did i last 2 mounts last time it’s definitely crippling i dont even want to leave the house but when i do i feel a little better im not gonna tell you go outside to feel better cause i know its way way deeper than that but we just gotta be strong man remember they will not go away they will just become of part of you and youll have to accept it thats what i did last time but the thoughts do get stuck I understand like i said we just have to wait i guess its messed up but thats what we have we have to learn to except it ………
lou47lou47
- Date posted
- 3y
Probably through some reassurance now actually thinking about it this week! It is soooo hard though isnt it? You just think...i will just reassure myself a little bit....then it gets worse! I hate OCD so much but I do know that this obsession will go....it is weird because a few weeks before I got this obsession I thought to myself that I dont think I could have another obsession any more ......then BAM! This one came on!
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 3y
I thought the same when i felt better i was like theres no way in the world i could be like that again almost sorta feeling stupid for the dark place it put me in then BAM a couple months later were back at square one this dosent feel right man
jfount11117jfount11117
- Date posted
- 3y
Yes OCD pays attention. I had two great weeks, the best I have had in 10 months. Then I could feel it coming on and started doing a few reassurances and now it’s full fledged OCD in less than a week
Lms526Lms526
- Date posted
- 3y
Yep. OCD is an asshole. If you give it an inch, it will immediately take a mile.
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Anonymous 25#
- Date posted
- 24w
When?
Can someone please tell me at what point did you finally accept that it’s OCD? When did the ERP click for you? When did you just stop buying into the lies of OCD and finally let go? Like what does it take. It’s been 2 years of this for me and I’m in ERP currently and it’s just not clicking 😣 is it just me???
Looping
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 17w
ERP/Therapy
I find while doing exposures, rarely does my anxiety lessen. It usually amps up and stays that way for the remainder of the day. I could be having a fairly decent day, but dutifully do my exposures and then the rest of my day is anxiety filled. I guess that’s just how it is now? Also, I’m wondering if my therapist even believes I have OCD. I totally understand my therapist cannot provide reassurance. But it’s to the point it seems my therapist acts like I actually did the thing I fear. I feel so isolated.
garebear423
- Date posted
- 7w
I'm done
Ero doesn't work. I don't understand why people always say use erp use erp. It doesn't work, ever. Sitting with anxiety doesn't work, nothing works. There is no dealing with ocd the only way to deal with it is rumination and getting reassurance. Erp doesn't work because it needs to work immediately. I dint have time to sit with anxiety and living with the thought I need the thoughts gone now. I'm a horrible person, I deserve nothing, I don't deserve friends, I'm awful horrible, I'm terrible. My ocd is right and I need to accept it. It never gets better. I will never recover
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