A few things you all might need to hear 💙:

1. It’s okay if what might work for others, doesn’t work for you. It doesn’t mean you won’t find something that will or that you can’t get better. You will find things that help your ocd and you will get better, I promise. 2. You may not have a support network around you that is helpful to your OCD, like myself. And you should all know that just because you’re struggling doesn’t mean you aren’t trying. You’re here and not giving up, and you deserve to be proud of that. 3. You are not your OCD. It doesn’t matter what your OCD is telling you, if everyone in the world was what their OCD was telling them, there wouldn’t be success stories of recovery. And I promise you aren’t the exception. Everyone at some point has felt that they must be the exception, that’s unfortunately part of the process. It doesn’t mean it’s true. Everyone who has recovered has done so in spite of feeling like they must have been the exception. You *will* feel like yourself again. 4. Just because there are people out there and around you who don’t understand OCD does not make you odd. There is no “normal” vs “weird.” Millions of people deal with this, anyway. You aren’t an odd one out. 5. You aren’t weird for your own specific hyper-specific OCD thoughts. OCD can pick up on anything. It’s the lint-roller mental disorder. You aren’t a “weird” ocd-er.