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.

ARTnotOCD

Date posted: 2y

I’m so proud of you. Embrace this weird but good feeling. Celebrate your wins! 🥳

Calove

Date posted: 2y

It’s very rare this happens I think I’m just so fed up today it started with just ignoring one thought , then the other and It got easier. Of course right now as I’m trying to go to bed I’m struggling a bit to keep that mindset, but I’m still trying. I hope to get a good sleep without tossing and turning doing compulsions before bed. Thanks for all the words of encouragement I honestly love this app and how supportive everyone is on here.

Charlotte O

Date posted: 2y

Oh my goodness congrats!!!

Amber R

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

Hi Calove, look at you go! This is a great success. Ignoring the thoughts + not engaging with them is a great invivo/real world ERP exercise. It’s an amazing feeling, right?? Enjoy it! I saw in the next breath you expressed concern about how you might feel the next day; that’s super common. When we have a good day, we dread/fear having a bad day. The truth is we don’t know what the future will bring, and no amount of worrying or speculation will give us that answer. That’s just OCD trying to get us back in its loop! Tomorrow might be another good day, it might be a bad day, we don’t know. But what we DO know is that whatever comes our way, we can handle it! Be proud of yourself, this journey isn’t easy. But it is sooooo worth it. Keep on keepin’ on!

Calove

Date posted: 2y

Thanks Amber for the words of encouragement !!!

Anonymous

Date posted: 20w

Good and Bad Days of OCD

Any tips on how to deal with the rollercoaster of good and bad days with OCD? I had such a good day yesterday with tackling my compulsions and rumination. I tend to get up in the mornings and my OCD loves to start immediately. It becomes frustrating when you feel like you made progress, only to go right back to where you were. Any positive encouragement of how you’ve dealt with this would be appreciated!

Aldxma.steph

Date posted: 18w

Anyone else has this happen?

Anyone else just have days where they feel more calm and don’t have as many intrusive thoughts? But then later at night time it just comes back so you only had relief even for a little bit 😞😞 I feel like even when I’m not having my OCD send me intrusive thoughts, I always have a feeling in my stomach that something is wrong/off or a sense of doom. I always just feel on edge and anxious as if my mind is always preparing itself for the next horrifying intrusive thought to torment me with ugh 🫠

Holl1

Date posted: 12w

OCD recovery

I think I’m in the recovery stage as my thoughts have settled so much & I only get intrusive thoughts on occasion and get worse only when I’m anxious, but the quietness in my brain feels so weird & I feel awful saying that because all I wanted was the thoughts to stop. This is the most quiet it’s been it’s over 7 months, so to go from non stop thoughts for a long time to quietness I don’t know how to take it. Has anyone else felt like this in recovery

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