Anyone have a recovery story to share? I need some kind of guidance or a feeling that recovery is possible. The somatic stuff is creating such anxiety which in turn just makes the symptoms worse. I need a plan but its all too exhausting
I’ve been recovered for 3 years after 6 years o my intense therapy. What is it you’d like to know specifically? 😊
Once I learned how the therapy worked, I forced myself to face the discomfort that comes with the uncertainty of OCD. My life used to be consumed by it, but now I control my OCD rather than it controlling me!! I do still have periods of intense compulsions, but it isn’t every waking second of every day or every week of every month anymore!! Exactly one year ago I was on this app asking the same question and wondering if I could ever recover. It’s still hard sometimes, but if I’m taking my meds it’s only a minor annoyance most days with just a rough patch here and there. Are you on meds? They have changed my whole journey
I have resisted meds as well. But I’ve gotten to this point that I am thinking heavily about trying them. Do you just take an anti-depressant?
@confused I take a mood stabilizer called Lamotrogine. It’s the only med that has helped all my mental disorders because it just helps me regulate my emotions. And when I can do that, none of them get triggered as easily!
Thats wonderful to hear. What kind of ocd did you suffer with? I guess I would be curious what therapy entailed and how your life is now that you have recovered? I have had periods of relief, but it does return usually in a different form. But I have never committed to regular therapy.
I had all the OCD themes you can think of, but the main one that stuck around longest was POCD. I was intense therapy for 6 years for my PTSD and OCD. I first had to do trauma therapy and recover from that before doing ERP. It was much easier and is always recommended so you don’t retraumafizs yourself. The thing that people often miss and therefore disappoints them is there’s no cure for OCD and you’ll still have intrusive thoughts—but everyone does. Your REACTION to the thoughts is what matters and what you learn to desensitize to/learn coping mechanisms.
Thank you for the info, I think I am learning to not be so stubborn and to get help. Kudos to you for doing the work! I know its not easy.
Thank you for sharing :))
I feel so freaking scared. I know I’ll have an intrusive thought/urge and whatever I know I’m going to fight off another compulsion until I eventually give in bc I’m still so new to this. I am petrified and I feel like I cannot for the life of me relax. I’m sleep deprived, in a terrible place hormonally, withdrawing from meds, and being treated like a burden by people around me. I literally feel like I can’t do this. I keep thinking about those posts where people talk about the hypothetical scenarios where you learn your death date. I feel like if someone told me I’d die soon, I would cry of relief. I would never hurt myself but boy do I not want to experience this anymore.
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?
just crying cause i feel like im never going to recover and just have to be lesbian, even tho i love my boyfriend so much. thoughts don’t even give me anxiety anymore idk what to do, im just so done, feel like it’s all real and that i want it(when i dont). any tips or anything, idk how to keep going
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