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That is so normal! It's hard to adjust to the part of you that doesn't compulse as much anymore. It's a new you that you're embracing.

Hi there! I completely understand the feeling of grieving the loss of "control" that OCD once gave you. Often it can be hard when we start to feel better and get a handle on our OCD. It sounds like you have been practicing ERP - how is that going for you?

Yes

same here friend

Same

Grieving the loss of control, loss of feeling “normal” ..all common!

yes i’m going through this right now! it feels like when i was super anxious and worried about it i had more control because i was always thinking about it and stuff but now that i’m moving forward from it it’s like i’m losing this safety net of “compulsions” and it’s a difficult feeling. i heard it’s OCDs back door trick and makes you start questioning whether u need that control in your life still which leads to obsessing

Hmm interesting

I feel like yes it is a kind of grieving process. You are grieving what you have always known & done to ensure you felt safe. It makes sense that you did what you knew, but now you know more, you know something else & what you know now can help you recover. Before it was just doing what you knew, unfortunately what you knew kept you stuck & in this Repeating cycle of doing what your ocd wanted. Now that you know more, you can take those skills & your ocd no longer has to control your life forever. I very much think it is a grieving process of what you knew & that you thought those things were keeping you safe, when in reality they weren’t.

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