Bella???
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Doubts123Doubts123
- Date posted
- 5y ago
For sure!! I think reassurance when one truly doesn't know if something should be worried about or not is very helpful (even necessary? in my opinion!) I think it's only not helpful when it becomes repetitive, where someone get the reassurance they need but continues asking over and over. Also as long as we are still on the lookout to acknowledge and ignore intrusive thoughts then we are still overcoming ocd.
marsimarsi
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yes!!! But it takes a lot for me to really believe it and fight it. That’s amazing you were able to do that and leave it be!
o: O: Devon O: o:o: O: Devon ...
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yea I’ve def felt that way before. There are actually obsessions which have completely disappeared for me after reassurance and someone sharing an objective/logical perspective. Just like one medicine doesn’t work for everyone, reassurance isn’t bad in every case. The conclusion that reassurance is bad came from research which is based on scientific theories and hypotheses, not a scientific law. Which means that there can be exceptions to the rule^_^
Brooklyn33Brooklyn33
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Reassurance can works in short periods of time, mostly in the beggining of the disorder. But the thought will be back because your behaviour over that doesn't change. With time, reassurance just makes everything worse and you start to loose all sense of control in your life.
o: O: Devon O: o:o: O: Devon ...
- Date posted
- 5y ago
In most cases:) It’s been 3 years since the obsession I was talking about disappeared.
Brooklyn33Brooklyn33
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Don't trust reassurance. Is just common that if you have an obsession with some theme that is stronger than the others, you keep worrying about it more than the others. For example, I suffer soocd, so I can't really get contamination ocd at all. Or any other type of ocd, even if all of them start with the same behaviours and make you feel like shit anyway. You have your obsession to fight. And is normal that with treatment you can overcome other negative thoughts easily.
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dianasjourney
- Date posted
- 22w ago
Reassurance
One fun thing about what I’ve experienced is that even if I go to people for reassurance, more often than not it doesn’t help and makes things worse. I see how from an outside perspective it looks like denial and the moment I open my mouth to talk about it the instant thought is “you’re faking it, you know it’s true and you’re faking it”. And it’s great when people say maybe you are this or that like it’s no big deal, …but it is? And then again it’s like maybe they see something I don’t?
libertyliber...
- Date posted
- 21w ago
question
does anyone else use the fact that they dont like their thoughts as a confirmation/compulsion, and or when you go through something stressful with little to no compulsions take it as a sign they actually like it? is this apart of usual rumination or am I expirencing something different? and how do you deal with it?
mikulover
- Date posted
- 14w ago
is this a compulsion or a form of rumination?
sometimes, to try and prove my fear wrong i’ll be like “ okay, let me think of this REALISTICALLY. would i REALISTICALLY feel this way or do this thing? “ then i come up with scenarios in my head on how i think i would realistically ( or logically ) do something but then my feelings go against that thing i thought of then i start getting anxiety and start to fear that i would actually want my fear to happen or that i’d feel a certain way that proves my fear true. it’s basically just checking how i feel about something i think of to try and prove my fear wrong, checking my emotions or checking how i think i’d realistically feel towards it.. but then i may react “ unrealistically “ it goes wrong and i freak out
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