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I don’t accept that and I never will. I won’t rest until I get better! (I don’t rest anyway so it’s cool)
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I think accepting the fact that this will be a lifelong journey is a healthy step in the right direction. You’re not giving up. You are choosing to stop fighting it and allowing yourself to acknowledge the facts about OCD and that is super healthy. Good for you!
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I have to disagree. Accepting that you will never get better is giving up. Living with your life being controlled by OCD is no way to live and is definitely not a healthy way to live. I fully accept that it may never go away entirely, but I do not accept that I will never get better, and I will continue fighting until I do so. The goal is definitely to get rid of the symptoms (the compulsions, not the intrusive thoughts), and not to accept them.
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@pineapple I agree with @ashley85 I’m not giving up. I’m just radically accepting that I may be in the spot I’m in for the rest of my life, and if I can still enjoy and live my life the way I WANT not the way the OCD wants me to then that’s a win. I realize that I cannot control the thoughts my brain gives me but I can control my reaction to them. By accepting the symptoms I’m no longer constantly fighting against myself in my head. I can concentrate on the present moment more this way because I’m not desperately searching for answers all the time. Because the truth is most of my obsessions don’t have answers. And without me constantly interacting with them, hopefully they will fade and get less strong.
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Getting better is not fighting against yourself in your head; it is accepting the uncertainty of the thoughts, not fighting them. So it sounds like you are on the right track.
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@pineapple I think that accepting that I’m seeing it differently. Im taking it in the way that I may never get better (ie OCD will always be there) but I can choose to accept that it’s here for the rest of my life and I can still be happy. Not that you have to be stuck in your compulsions.
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Gosh, at this point, do/think whatever feels like will help get you out of the funk (besides ask for reassurance of course ?)
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