- Date posted
- 3y ago
- Date posted
- 3y ago
when you were in your recovery process, when you learned to accept the thoughts was it scary at first or did the thoughts get worse? i feel like today i’ve been doing pretty good with letting my thoughts pass but i’ve just been worrying about my thoughts lately.
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Yes, it was definitely scary. I remember a few months before I started doing ERP and jumping into the recovery process, my therapist tried to give me a little push. He said, “What if you agree with your thoughts? It’ll make them less scary eventually.” I said NOOOOOOPE I can’t, that’s impossible. But a few months later, it was possible. I was accepting thoughts that haunted me for 5 years. Then I realized I made *myself* sick for 5 years by fighting so much. My therapist was with me for 3 of those years (before I started in on recovering) but he knew he could only push so much or else I’d break. He’s very patient and was basically waiting for me to basically hit rock bottom hard enough that I said I wanted to get better. Fighting is futile against OCD. Or a pink elephant 😂
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- 16w ago
I’ve noticed that I’m somewhat happier also ignoring my thoughts than I am instead of doing compulsions (I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired atp) but I’ve heard you’re technically supposed to do erp rather than pushing under the rug. But idk if I have a thought I just refuse to think about it again and im fine even if I want to do compulsions
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- 15w ago
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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- 13w ago
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