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Thank you for talking about this. It's really easy for this space to become a way to seek reassurance and it's hard to realize it sometimes.
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I feel the same. The main reason I’m on here is because a) I have a therapist on NOCD and b) I have been recovering for a year and a half so I’m on the side of the struggle where I can help people. But the posts are hard one me sometimes.
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While those are good points, exposing yourself to triggers often helps you overcome OCD. Reading others’ posts (when you are ready) and not doing compulsions could be a great exposure
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The thing is, they are not triggers to begin with. I understand what you mean, but for me they create new triggers that did not need to be created in the first place. I have enough on my own lol.
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@trying my fkn best Yea I see what you mean
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I totally agree with you! When I first started with NOCD, it was just very mild SOOCD. Then it developed into ROCD by reading other’s posts and made my SOOCD worst. Usually I turn the posts off but turned it on today because I’m having a bad day. I’m planning to delete it once I’m done with therapy.. which I hope is soon.
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It's like 90% reassurance and 10% actual help and positivity. I wish NOCD could do something about this.
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Like people come on here just to make their OCD worse.
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I agree some people deff come on here to seek reassurance, but I just ignore those posts. This app has been so helpful to my recovery. It literally helps so much to know that I am not alone. It helps me to be able to share with the community when I have good days and what works for me because I want to inspire others. And it helps me when I see other inspiring posts.
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Hello! I just got diagnosed with OCD a week ago and joined the app today to find a sense of community. Since my understanding of treatment is minimal at this point, I'm confused why everything on here tells us not to seek or give reassurance? If someone could explain the reasoning behind that it would be greatly appreciated, as I want to make sure I'm not only watching out for it in my personal life but also using this app appropriately.
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New to this app. Do members find it helps, I'm worried I will start obsessing over things I hadn't thought about before when I read other people's OCD triggers...
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Finding this app has helped me a lot in feeling like I'm not isolated and I've definitely met so many kind and helpful people here. You guys have helped me on my darkest days. However, because of my fragile state of mind, I think scrolling on here is becoming a compulsion and I feel like I end up triggering myself more by scrolling through some posts. I think it just ends up adding more to my intrusive thoughts and more ammo for my false memories and POCD to latch on to. And I know exposures are good for treating OCD, but this level of exposure seems to be doing more harm than good. So I will try to be less active (maybe I won't, who knows lol).
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