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I think that's the goal with ERP; eventually, you reach a state where you're not as panicked about your obsessions anymore. It takes a lot of faking it, though. I wish I had had therapy back when I had OCD more severely - I think it would have been of more benefit and I wouldn't have struggled as much as I did.
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Yes, that’s what I try to do! I try to pretend to not care about the obesssions anymore until I actually don’t care.
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It actually kinda works, as long as it isn't a compulsion disguised as this.
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that was my question haha i wanna do it and pretend it doenst effect me until i get to a point where i’m not pretending and it doesn’t effect me but i don’t want it as a compulsion so i was just wondering
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@Anonymous20222 You'll kinda just "feel it" if it starts turning into a compulsion. As long as it doesn't give you instant relief, i believe you'll be fine
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- 18w
When I was a child, before I knew this was OCD, I struggled with constant "magical thinking" compulsions (don't step on the crack or mom's back will actually break, etc). When I later learned this was OCD, it almost immediately solved it. Any time I got a magical thought, I would say to myself "that's just an OCD thought. ignore it." and it just stopped coming! Like seriously it fixed the magical thinking stuff forever. But of course the OCD has resurfaced in other ways. So naturally, I've tried to use the same strategy since I had so much success with it previously. But I wonder sometimes if telling myself "that's just OCD" is almost functioning as a reassurance compulsion? I hate how meta this gets. For example, I have ROCD that comes and goes. So sometimes I'll get a thought like "what if i'm still in love with my ex?" and then I'll tell myself "that's obviously just an ROCD thought" and will feel relief, almost like reassurance. But it comes back. So is telling myself that it's OCD a reassurance compulsion ?? It's just so weird because it worked so perfectly as a kid with the magical thinking thing.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how OCD changes the way we see ourselves, but I recently realized that I am not my thoughts. Just because a thought pops up doesn’t mean it’s true or that it defines me. I’ve started learning how to see OCD for what it is—just a disorder trying to trick me—and I’ve become stronger in dealing with it. Has anyone else here had a similar realization? How do you handle these thoughts when they show up?
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- 17w
I know I was here earlier on with a question as well lol but has anyone ever found that when a new false memory takes its place at the forefront of your mind, it's almost easier to disregard the old false memories and say "Yeah that stuff didn't actually happen that way". It feels like OCD giving you a little reward for letting it place a new, shinier false memory in your head. Anyone experience the same thing? Maybe I've asked a similar question before.
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