No cure for OCD?

It's almost been two years since I got hit hard with OCD. I have listened to OCDstories plenty of times. Did therapy many times(don't compare yourself to my therapy experience), I read unwanted intrusive thoughts. Whatever at this point OCD is all about uncertainty maybe, maybe not. But therapists saying there is no CURE is being 100% certain that there isnt. How do we know there isnt any cure? It just seems cynical and no effort. There has to be a cause and effect.

dieinaholeoc...

Date posted: 3y

It’s not curable (yet), but it can be manageable. Manageable to the point of having almost all of your thoughts gone. It takes a lot of hard work, but it can be achieved. It gets harder to get easier.

InkJoy123

Date posted: 3y

So with OCD (6 years going but I will say I had about 2-3 years of feeling better and recently it came back again) you can say it won't go away. That doesn't mean we will feel the same. We will always remember what we've experienced with OCD bc its things that were in our minds, what we felt, what we've done. The problem is, OCD latches on to them to make it SEEM like a problem and makes them stay as if they are permanent. So honestly with what you said, I think its 50/50 OCD will stick with us but not in a sense of we feel the same way we felt in the beginning, its because its something that we ourselves dealt with and honestly will remember, but at the same time it won't because you are able to forget a lot of what you experienced, you can look back and say "why did i ever react that way to those idiotic thoughts ?" Does that make sense ?

RememberWhoY...

Date posted: 3y

What you said does make sense. The beginning was like an invasion or an ambush so it was chaotic and a nightmare. I think for me right now, I'm so used to the bad habits of intrusive thinking and thoughts that it's almost "me" which makes it unbearable. No anxiety attacks but constant distress, anger, and broken

InkJoy123

Date posted: 3y

@RememberWhoYouAre. Yes ! Just like that. Thats a phase MMAANNYYY are like god is this really me ? No ! Its not ! We just become numb to our thoughts with how repetitive they can be. We all deal with things differently so not experiencing PAINFUL anxiety does not prove anything of who you are as a person. I had a phase of no anxiety with it, they just stayed, BUT I can tell you right now it is manageable. I was able to forget those thoughts, able to live a bit. I still had a few but thats because I mever received helped. My theme changed so my POCD was never really treated, it just switched. Now I an able to use these methods here to combat it :) And hopefully I can get back to the same spot I was and improve even more !!! You'll have that feeling too ! Its hard because obviously we are all on here because OCD is still affecting us, but you'll know when OCD won't be a problem for you anymore :) Chin up !! <3

Lukej91

Date posted: 3y

One thing I noticed as well look into your gut health because 95% of serotonin is created in the gut and shoots up the vagus nerve. I notice when I eat better I seem to be much better , I ate so much junk food on the weekend and my mood changed like crazy

MiaK

Date posted: 3y

I actually have watched a video on people doing brain research for ocd and they are working on trying to figure out something for a cure. I'm not fully sure, but they could find a way to alter the way the brain responds?? Although it might be farther in the future

Lukej91

Date posted: 3y

My aunty , mum , sister and myself have it, we're fine majority of our lives. My aunty has only had like two episodes off it ( when symptoms were present) and they were 55 years apart

Anonymous

Date posted: 24w

Decades of OCD..confused about my next steps!!!

I have had ocd for decades! Could I still be cured???? (Of you can call it that?) I have seen different therapists but it never had fully left me...not by any stretch of the imagination. I do want to be free of this ocd and its power over me and all the bad that it brought into my life!!! Some days I am strong and feel like I am fighting it put other days...many days...I don't get things done or if I do I take a long time to-do the things I need to get done. I feel like I know this is just then ocd stopping me and that these are just thoughts but nobody in my family understands and though they have shared my journey and hated it a I do.....it just feels like I want so bad to be the best person I coukd be but I avoid places, people, things, that have any reminder of my ocd.......and so it restricts me from getting better and completing tasks the way I used to. Now UI might go and make 2-3 trips cuz I am worried to shop at a place and therefore it takes my time up. The avoidance I do is bad! When I actually don't listen to my ocd and don't avoid something...I feel great! ,However, it happens so rarely!!! I.dont know how finding a therapist through NOCD will help me. It is not in person and two be honest I almost think I need medicine to push me along. I don't have anybsteady and consistent improvements. However, I don't think I want to be on medication for the rest of my life! I am very confused!

eugeniodepalo

Date posted: 24w

Double standards for certainty?

Do you ever feel like people without OCD have an easy time just saying “you need to accept uncertainty” only because they’re not subject to the same level of fear and anxiety as an OCD sufferer would? I feel like they don’t really accept uncertainty, they’re just naturally more certain about things. For example, if you ask anyone whether they think their loved ones are real or not, they will never answer with “maybe, but I’ll never know for sure”. They’ll just say “of course they are”. Isn’t that what certainty is? For me, as I’ve been suffering from existential OCD most of my adult life, such a question absolutely terrifies me. The mere thought of my loved ones and the world not being real sends me into a spiral of anxiety and depression and never ending certainty-seeking behavior. I just can’t stand the thought of that horrible scenario being true. How can one accept uncertainty about such a thought, when it completely undermines all my values and beliefs and world view? Can non-OCD sufferers really accept those nighmarish scenarios? Am I misunderstanding what ERP and therapy is about?

Dude01

Date posted: 20w

It's about the Themes, you can't convince me otherwise

"The themes don't matter, it's the OCD that's the real culprit!" I don't buy that. How's that? I didn't have this crap until the real event themes came along. I wasn't born with OCD, I didn't have it from a young age, etc. This was learned, this was real event theme triggered, this was a bad habit that kept on on going and never died, the frequency just picked up and now it's a daily hell. This wasn't happening before the actual themes. Which makes sense. It's a result of being "stuck" in a cycle of guilt, shame, and constant cognitive challenges to "deal" with past deeds. I've very skeptical of any future solution. The fact that there doesn't seem to be any permanent solution for real event OCD is defeating and depressing. I don't know how people "beat OCD" without some level of delusion mindset or baked out of their mind in medication. Doesn't seem to be a holistic or real solution to this. Just more of the same hellish routines. I'm just very pessimistic, it's been years. Where is the hope. Sick of being stuck like this.

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