- Username
- Calove
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I’m so proud of you. Embrace this weird but good feeling. Celebrate your wins! 🥳
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.
Oh my goodness congrats!!!
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!
Thanks Amber for the words of encouragement !!!
I’m so confused right now. I feel really calm about my intrusive thoughts and I feel calm overall. I can still get moments of feeling uneasy but overall I’m calmer. Yesterday was really difficult. Does that mean I don’t have OCD? I just don’t get this. Even today I was scared with the thought of what If I’m lying about my intrusive thoughts and my experience with OCD and I’m really just a crazy person.....and then later today when I felt calmer I was like omg what if I really don’t have OCD and I really I’m just making it up. I feel so calm right now. I’m kind of guessing maybe because I talked to my mom about my some intrusive thoughts have and have had in the past and I was worried about telling her but she understood and so I feel a weight lifted off my shoulders. Is it possible to suddenly feel ok?
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
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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