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Hi, My name is Tyler Devine! I’m one of the advocates here at NOCD. It’s nice to meet you. First off, I want to say well done for just getting on the app and surrendering to the beast that is OCD. I have battled OCD (particularly SO-OCD, sexual orientation OCD) for quite some time. But having the pleasure to master this subtype has allowed me to come on here and help guide people like yourself through the valleys. When I started my journey, this app/organization ceased to exist, so I am pumped to see people using it to help them throughout their individual journeys. OCD and OCD training are difficult because it deals with having to talk about and face things that you are so uncomfortable with (taboo type thoughts and images) As much as you don’t realize it, this absence of anxiety you are experiencing is habituation, meaning you are becoming so used to thinking or feeling a certain uncomfortable thought or feeling that you get used to it with the passing of time. Habituation is an awesome step in recovery and learning how to not let OCD rule your daily life. Habituation to the thoughts that used to cause you the uttermost discomfort is reached through ERP practice either on your own, with a therapist, or through exposure events in your everyday life! I found an article explaining this topic from a more clinical point of view. https://beyondocd.org/expert-perspectives/articles/what-does-habituation-mean Stay positive and good luck on your journey. Continue to help others who struggle along the way! Tyler
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Cause this particular ocd is absolutely horrendous and give anyone anxiety if exposed to it enough
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what do you mean?
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@simplyexhausted Oh I’m sorry I read that wrong I totally disregarded the word don’t my bed
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I meant my bad not bad
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Oh this goddamn phone I meant bad not bed
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How long does it take for the intrusive thoughts to go away
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I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
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These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
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