Bella???
- Date posted
- 6y 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
- 6y 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
- 6y 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
- 6y 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
- 6y 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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Anonymousssssss
- Date posted
- 16w ago
Do you have to do erp?
I’ve noticed that I’m somewhat happier also ignoring my thoughts than I am instead of doing compulsions (I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired atp) but I’ve heard you’re technically supposed to do erp rather than pushing under the rug. But idk if I have a thought I just refuse to think about it again and im fine even if I want to do compulsions
Ok_Paint758
- Date posted
- 10w ago
Is telling myself "it's just ocd" a compulsion?
When I was a child, before I knew this was OCD, I struggled with constant "magical thinking" compulsions (don't step on the crack or mom's back will actually break, etc). When I later learned this was OCD, it almost immediately solved it. Any time I got a magical thought, I would say to myself "that's just an OCD thought. ignore it." and it just stopped coming! Like seriously it fixed the magical thinking stuff forever. But of course the OCD has resurfaced in other ways. So naturally, I've tried to use the same strategy since I had so much success with it previously. But I wonder sometimes if telling myself "that's just OCD" is almost functioning as a reassurance compulsion? I hate how meta this gets. For example, I have ROCD that comes and goes. So sometimes I'll get a thought like "what if i'm still in love with my ex?" and then I'll tell myself "that's obviously just an ROCD thought" and will feel relief, almost like reassurance. But it comes back. So is telling myself that it's OCD a reassurance compulsion ?? It's just so weird because it worked so perfectly as a kid with the magical thinking thing.
moon027097
- Date posted
- 9w ago
A question
I know I was here earlier on with a question as well lol but has anyone ever found that when a new false memory takes its place at the forefront of your mind, it's almost easier to disregard the old false memories and say "Yeah that stuff didn't actually happen that way". It feels like OCD giving you a little reward for letting it place a new, shinier false memory in your head. Anyone experience the same thing? Maybe I've asked a similar question before.
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