Sometimes it seems like my OCD can go away for weeks at a time, until I sense it looming and comes back at me full force and I fall back into a vicious cycle of obsessions. Does anyone else have long periods of time they feel they don't have as strong symptoms?
Absolutely. If I don’t do my compulsions (stay off of google/stop going on Reddit/stay off of tik tok) I basically feel fine. But recently I’ve been on tik tok a lot and it sent me down a spiral of researching and checking and ruminating and now I’ve had 2 spikes in the past month. I have SOOCD and ROCD
I've never heard it called a grace period before, and I connect with that so much: I think that will really help me when I am in one to know that it won't last forever. Anyway, as for me, I haven't had a grace period in a REALLY long time: like...2 and a half years. I went from obsessive excersizing, to OCD induced anorexia, to perfectionism.
It is commonly reported in people with OCD that their OCD symptoms can come and go, it can also switch between themes or take on several different contents. In my articles I often talk about this with my own experiences. It seems that I had time periods where OCD latched on to certain things and then moved on just as quickly, other themes have lingered or gone away completely. The amazing news though is that it is all very treatable with ERP and sometimes medication. I also know that many women have reported more severe symptoms around the time of their menstrual cycle. I also know that as with any mental illness, stress can induce symptoms.
Me… my POCD wasn’t that overtly present for months and now it’s back telling me that I’m in denial because I wasn’t getting as much intrusive thoughts about it
I’m experiencing something like this. I’m new to NOCD and right after starting my diagnostic session i just didn’t feel my ocd for a while, it’s been around 3 weeks and part of me started thinking maybe I dont actually have OCD? Trying to track my obsessions and compulsions has been hard cuz I really haven’t had many…Then I started feeling afraid because if I didn’t have ocd then why was I worried about the things I was before? Aka am I just a bad person? Then yesterday it was almost like I could feel my ocd coming back it’s still not fully back but I can feel it around the edges of my thoughts, and I’m just trying to not think about things that usually set me off or if I have a thought to just move through ut without questioning it. I haven’t startedERP yet but I feel like that’s part of it, right? Except I’m definitely avoiding things not exposing myself to them. So maybe not?
100% to the ocd at the edges of your thoughts and trying to avoid triggers. I do the same, trying real hard to keep the better state. It just feels like a cloud on the horizon to me, maybe it won't even come my way, maybe it was never there, but it still just sits in my vision.
It is there constantly. But it varies in intensity.
Does anyone else feel like they’re OCD turns off for a couple days? Like you go through an intense period of having intrusive thoughts and feeling the need to confess and then you only start to get thoughts here and there? And you try to keep yourself from having the thoughts but you’re not sure if it’s avoidance? Like I have felt sooo much better the last couple of days, especially in the morning, I live for those times of quiet in my head. But I still haven’t been able to accept myself for the things I might have done, like I can’t accept myself still because of my OCD. This probably sounds a little jumbled but I would like to think someone can relate lol
So I’m 33 diagnosed with ocd at 20 but had it since about 17 or 18.. I’m older now a little wiser of my disorder but I’ve always wondered after going weeks or days feeling fine completely forgetting about the waves or spikes were even there and the obsessive fear or doubts existed . Why is it they always randomly come back.. if we’re fine for those few days or weeks not even worrying not even freaked out not even realizing we have this disorder why do the waves or intrusive thoughts that get us in our spirals in the first place come back randomly? I’ve always wondered why that is ? For example I suffer from harm ocd soocd.. and relationship ocd.. when I’m not obsessing I know who I am what I love what I cherish what I like.. for those couple weeks I feel my absolute self not a care in the world for the shit I went through weeks ago or even days ago when dealing with the disorder.. so why does it always come back when things are great for that certain amount of time ?
When I was 14 during Covid, I had a episode for six months of constant compulsions every night. When I turned fifteen compulsions were almost completely gone on their own!! When I got into a relationship I completely gave into my ROCD and they consumed me. Then it went away almost completely. Then it would come back the strongest I’ve ever dealt with. Does anyone else have this? Sometimes when it’s almost gone I’m like nahhh I didn’t have ocd, then when it comes back I’m like HWAT ELSE COULD IT BE THIS IS TORTURE.
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