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I’m so proud of you. Embrace this weird but good feeling. Celebrate your wins! 🥳
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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.
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Oh my goodness congrats!!!
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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!
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Thanks Amber for the words of encouragement !!!
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So I’ve noticed that my OCD has calmed down, I’m getting less intrusive thoughts but I feel more uncertain than ever. Is this normal for recovery?
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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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Yesterday I had a good day after I decided to not let any thought or feeling ruin my day. My intrusive thoughts and hyper awareness of consiousness/thinking was still there. But my day was more than okay. I even felt normal some moments of the day 🤓 Let’s do the same today. Lets live with the ocd instead of trying to escape it at all times.
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