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- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 2y ago
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- edwiinjoshua01edwiinjoshua01
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Yes
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- GregJGregJ
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Hello! Yes, it is totally possible! I swear I was in your exact position, thinking I would never recover. I thought I wasn’t strong enough or maybe I was an exception. Well that’s just an OCD lie. You can and you will recover! You just need to put in the work. Use this as motivation to keep pushing yourself. Self pity won’t get you anywhere but standing up to these thoughts and ignoring the thoughts will get you on the road to recovery. Tons of people have recovered. Some use meds (like me) and ERP to battle OCD. Reach out to local sources for help. Do research on OCD. Arm yourself for the battle! A great resource is Ali Greymond on YouTube. You got this!
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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Thanks Greg! I’m at the point where I just feel like I don’t have ocd and like some of the stuff that I feel think do is just me now and I’m not normal. I almost feel like I don’t wanna recover because that’s what it was telling me I’m the past. Scared confused. 😂
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- GregJGregJ
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@Anonymous Totally just OCD. You can do this!
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- AnonymousAnonymous
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@Anonymous How are u now???
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- Jeffrey Jeffrey
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I am sorry that you are feeling discouraged and hopeless. OCD is a cruel disease, and it is relentless in its pursuit of trying to keep you in the loop of compulsions and the very question you ask is also ocd related, so to answer it would provide reassurance and feeding any compulsion will only make the ocd stronger. I would recommend continuing ERP, practice daily, and do not measure your progress over someone else’s progress. When the question comes up, or OCD says you will never recover, you acknowledge the thought, and perhaps say maybe I will or maybe I won’t but I can’t solve this because ocd is unsolvable. I hope this helps.
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Those with Harm OCD
Hey guys. I’ve been dealing with Harm OCD for around 3 and 1/2 months now, and it’s been extremely difficult to experience. I’ve had OCD my whole life and some of my family members do as well, one of my cousins actually has the same main subtype as me, but he was diagnosed almost a year ago when I didn’t have it myself. I’ve been going to an OCD & Anxiety Treatment Center the past week and I’m really struggling with the exposures we do there, as well as the ones we do at home. I constantly feel like I’m judging myself and I genuinely feel worthless, like I’m a horrible person to have unwanted intrusive thoughts like these. I feel like it’s so difficult to stay mindful and to not judge any of the thoughts that surface. Those with Harm OCD, have any of you here gone from debilitating OCD to living fulfilling lives? If so, what was the process like for you, if you’d like to share? Thanks and I hope you’re all doing well, or are continuing to improve.
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