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With me, I had to come to a point where I accepted uncertainty. I had to just trust myself without trying to figure every thought and feeling out. I had to sit with the anxiety and resist my compulsions. I had to start living my life despite what my brain was telling me. I did a lot of OCD workbooks and practiced mindfulness and meditating. I also take an antidepressant. I'm also a strong Christian so my faith plays a key role in my recovery. There is hope :)
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I think that’s what we need to see. I know many of us google our obsessions, especially down to the minute detail, and it’s always someone having the same problem, people replying back that they have it to, but we never see them come back and talk about their success or how or if they recovered. Knowing their is that hope that things will change, I think is powerful. While it is a bit of reassurance, I think it’s a healthy reassurance. What do I know.
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So I recently relapsed pretty hard BUT I did get better for quite awhile and I think the key (for me at least) was to NOT avoid anything. And to keep in mind that so many people not only have OCD but have fully recovered and stayed recovered. My thing is I always go straight to the negative when there’s probably always a silver lining I fail to see. We will all get better at some point! It just takes time I think
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Ranch, what was your subtype.
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Hi Ramblin- my themes are HOCD, ROCD, POCD, retroactive jealousy. I have social anxiety, general anxiety and driving anxiety.
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With COCD too, please.
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How long did it take to make this? And is it actually possible?
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People who went from a really bad time with OCD to a better time now. Is it really possible? What was your theme? Did you take medication?
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Hey everyone, First time posting here! Wanted to share my story for some support but also to hopefully make others feel less alone. In short - my ROCD has made such a mess of my personal life. I was in a great relationship until spring of last year, at which point we separated mainly due to my ROCD. I struggled heavily with OCD about 10 years ago (harm based intrusive thoughts, sexual orientation ocd, etc). It took a lot of work but I was able to mostly overcome my struggles and truthfully, hadn’t given ocd much thought since then. I thought I was cured. And then 10 years later I am in a very fulfilling relationship with a girl I really love, but at about the year mark in my relationship things really changed. She wanted to have a conversation about next steps (moving in, marriage, kids, etc) and at that point my brain just went into panic mode and the ocd took over. From that point on, I was constantly scanning for red flags, felt very reserved when it came to any sort of statement or commitment and tended to avoid anything that would indicate I was committed to a long term future. It was not that I didn’t love it was just that my ocd was doing anything to keep me from making a big commitment. It eventually got a point where we had a big conversation about breaking up or staying together and my OCD convinced me that it was safer and that I would do less harm to her if we ended things, which was incredibly devastating to me. At the time I felt like my obsessing over small red flags were normal and that I needed to protect myself. I just had no clue it was ROCD. I spent the next 8 months missing her and kicking myself for my mistakes, and I eventually got the courage to reach out and see if she’d be willing to talk again, which she was. But the problem is, at this point I still didn’t know it was ocd. So when we talked again I was still plagued by ROCD as all the same thoughts and feelings came flooding back. We tried to talk through things but once again I was unable to make any sort of commitment to the future so it went nowhere. Once again, I am feeling very sad and angry at myself for not being able to handle ROCD. I feel like I let it control me twice and has robbed me of a lot of happiness and hurt someone I care very much about. I understand it’s probably not best to just look at ourselves with anger and guilt all the time but it’s hard not to when you feel like you just caused so much harm. Anyone feel like they can relate? Or if anyone is going through something similar I am happy to chat as ROCD can really be tricky. Thanks
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