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Agreed with the above! My OCD made me feel a lack of interest in anything I did! For a while, even my favorite hobbies felt dull to me, but the thing you can do is remind yourself how much you used to love it, and although you don’t feel as deeply at the moment, slowly pick it up and do a bit of it every day! You will slowly regain that interest! I’m still working my way but have a tiny bit progress!

Yeah I do a lot of long distance running, and OCD latched to a fear of hurting my knee worrying I had bad form. My compulsions were trying to control and focus on my knee, which now a year later has got me to a point that makes running “normally” difficult, and actually makes my knees hurt. ERP for two months and I’m just starting to see some small progress. The biggest piece of advice is to not attempt to cope with it. Don’t ruminate about it. Don’t try to figure it out. Continue to do what you enjoy, regardless of what your OCD says the consequences are. Agree with your thoughts that you’re doing something wrong or something bad could happen. Basically just continue to live your life on your terms, regardless of ANYTHING!

It’s the worst. I haven’t been able to do many of my favorite hobbies because of this disease. But, the best thing we can do is 1) push through and try doing one thing that we love while embracing the uncertainty (SO HARD, but it’s the only way), 2) give ourselves grace. If we only manage to brush our teeth and put on deoderant, then hey, we DID those things! When we manage to take a shower or do five minutes of something fun, we DID those amazing things! Even if none of those things feel good right now, it is progress in the battle against our mind monster. Each step is a victory. Embrace the good days, allow yourself recuperation on the bad ones. We got this.

same here :(