I wish my good days would last more than days. I love when I can look at a thought and automatically realise that it’s ocd and brush it off. And when my friends ask me to go out and I can say yes without even second guessing. But when the good days are over, everything I ignored so easily comes crashing down and I’m back to square one ! So frustrating !
Remember the good days! Good days are nice because they show what is possible. With OCD it is tempting to think that good and bad days just happen, and we have no control. This is true in the sense that you cannot know what may trigger on a given day or what you will have to face. At the same time, we have choices depending on what the day presents. I appreciate your comment and would just add that how you approach adversity is within your power, although not always easy. As much as it hurts, we can learn more form the bad days as the good. I do not want to give the impression that you need to always feel great, in fact I endorse the opposite. Sometimes we are just not having a good day and can sit with yucky feelings and uncertainty. For that day, maybe that is a success. I wish you well on your journey.
You can get to a place where the good days outweigh and outlast the bad ones. It just takes lots of practice of ERP. It will come with time. Hang in there.
I am so happy that you’re able to have some good days!! ❤️❤️ I wish I had a more positive side towards my good days. Although I don’t I feel nervous when I feel okay? If that makes sense I don’t appreciate them enough. I’m so scared to feel okay. I feel guilty when I feel okay. Does anyone have tips for that?
@dreaminofyouhs I used to be the exact same ! I had anxiety about not having it and I thought it was wrong to feel good because of what I was going through but that’s ocd’s trick ! It wants to take back its territory as soon as you let your guard down the slightest but do not listen. Just agree and continue with your good day !
Thank you so much for sharing what you are going through. With OCD, triggers are constantly coming up, and they are very hard to avoid. ERP (exposure and response) therapy has been very helpful for me. With ERP I've gained a lot of tools to help me deal with the thoughts and minimize compulsions. Are you in therapy with a trained OCD therapist or NOCD? If not in therapy, please consider reaching out to the NOCD care team.
@Anonymous Iv been through therapy yeah. It didn’t really have an effect or help because my ocd wasn’t at a peak at the time so I couldn’t really practise anything, I could only remember techniques and try to use them in the future. Nocd is extremely expensive and I don’t live in the us so it would mean paying for it
Does anyone else feel like they’re OCD turns off for a couple days? Like you go through an intense period of having intrusive thoughts and feeling the need to confess and then you only start to get thoughts here and there? And you try to keep yourself from having the thoughts but you’re not sure if it’s avoidance? Like I have felt sooo much better the last couple of days, especially in the morning, I live for those times of quiet in my head. But I still haven’t been able to accept myself for the things I might have done, like I can’t accept myself still because of my OCD. This probably sounds a little jumbled but I would like to think someone can relate lol
Today I don’t care about my ocd I’m on the upward spiral and genuinely just have been ignoring my thoughts like I could care less. This hasn’t happened in a long time. Feels weird but also good. I’m even writing this having intrusive thoughts and just letting them pass. anyone every have these days and then bam the next day it’s hard to ignore the thoughts ? i get these days every now and then and it’s a great feeling, but also feels weird bc I’m used to my brain analyzing every thought or action I do.
Have moments of clarity where you know for sure your fear is absolutely your ocd making you upset and repeatedly getting you to give in your compulsions? Then the rest of the time, it’s like your brain doesn’t work at all and your fear is absolutely true or possibly true, of which the possibility is something you can’t/won’t accept. Do you ever have fantastic days where you hardly ruminate, do your compulsions, and the intrusive thoughts seem to be diminishing. You know you have to face your trigger at some point that say but you don’t want to because you’re having such a good day. But you know by avoiding it, you’re not going to improve so you face it, and then bam! You get stuck in your spiralling thoughts and behaviours again?
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