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- 3y
- Date posted
- 3y
Time an exercise! At the end, thoose phrases are just triggers! In the first place for me helped making a "selection": who among my friends (or family) can understand/listen without judging? I have a lots of beautiful friends, but I know that some of them can't understand rocd, or ocd. So I choose what friends are sensibile enough to understand that doubting isn't already an answer! + my therapist said that it is really helpful if they don't give me answers or their judge, they only listen! (Remember that confessing is a compulsion, so you should not do it, even ro your friends, because you are doing it just because you want reassurance that you want him-> you give importance to the thoughts) In the second place, the more you listen it, the less they will affect you. Maby the first time you cry for the entire day. The 10th time, maby for just an hour... the 200th time maby they just makes you angry! But I can tell you, you are the key to not being affected! And after a while, they will not trigger you anymore!!
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- 25w
Hey guys! My boyfriend has said recently that he doesn't know if he's strong enough to continue with our relationship because of my OCD. He wants to see me overcome my symptoms and learn to live a healthy life with OCD, but my anxieties and obsessions are starting to really affect his life. I understand his reasoning, it's hard to see someone you care about struggle with OCD, especially when it starts to affect you too. I'm asking for tips to deal with my compulsions in the relationship. I HAVE to know the answer to things and sometimes that leads into arguments because even with apologies and discussions I can't let things go, even if they genuinely don't matter or are miniscule issues we have. It's a healthy relationship otherwise but I feel horrible because it's impacting him so negatively, that's the absolute last thing I want to happen. I care for him deeply and he cares for me too, so I don't want my OCD to be a reason we break up but I fear it's headed in that direction. I'm starting therapy soon, but until then what are some things I can do to stop my ROCD from impacting him? I know sitting in the guilt and anxiety of not completing my obsessions will help, but I'm wondering if there are other things I can do to maybe remedy some of the damage already done.
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- Date posted
- 23w
for me it’s getting to the point where i don’t feel in love with my boyfriend anymore. i’m trying to keep myself from compulsing since my compulsions are all mental. it’s like the thoughts consume my mind every second of every day and i can’t catch a break. it’s like i want to be with him so bad but my brain won’t allow me. any advice?
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