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- Jon
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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- lehamleham
- Date posted
- 5y ago
!!This is SO imperative to understand!! Once we truly understand what recovery is- we’ll be more confident in working towards it. Only seeing recovery as an instantaneous moment of certainty and complete eradication of anxiety- will get us nowhere. Recovery for ocd is surrender, getting off the hamster wheel, and breaking all too familiar habits. It’s having a new relationship with everything that happens in your head. It’s us practicing this over and over and over again, and failing and succeeding and having bad days and amazing days and ‘in-the-middle-weird-days’. But all the while- us TRYING. And as long as we give it an honest shot, our efforts will not go unrewarded. It’s not a ‘snap of the fingers’ moment, it’s a journey. A lifestyle!
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- ocdsucksbuttocdsucksbutt
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Thank you so much, that was truly beautiful Leah. I hope to overcome this and as much as I wish it were done w a snap of a finger, ik I have to work and pace myself through it. I only hope I’ll be able to
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- lehamleham
- Date posted
- 5y ago
@ocdsucksbutt (<-correct) I believe in you SO much. Believe me when I say you do NOT have to live in fear. We are so used to catering to our anxieties and worries and fears, but here- that is not our job anymore. Deciding that you are going to stop, set it down, get up, and move towards everything you want in your life is your job. And ocd is going to make you feel like you’re doing something wrong when you do that- SO KEEP DOING IT. You will most definitely be able to!!??❤️❤️
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- JonJon
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yeah that was amazing Leah thanks for sharing ?
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- ocdsucksbuttocdsucksbutt
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Thank you so much:)
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- lehamleham
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Of course, thank you for posting!!
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- Anonymouse
- Date posted
- 5y ago
10% of the reason we suffer is because of thoughts. 90% is because of our reaction to it. To fight OCD, we have to change our beliefs of our fears. OCD takes our worst fear and turns it against us. We need to lose our fear. We need to stop believing that our thoughts are significant or they show our true feelings which cannot be more untrue. Tell yourself it is okay if you harm your love ones because it is not you but your ocd making you do it. Tell yourself it is okay if you feel attracted to your own gender, you will just focus on the opposite sex even if you feel attracted to your own gender. Change your mentality if you want to escape the madness.
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- Adam2010!
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Thoughts
When they say ocd never goes away we just learn to live with it, does it mean that we will have the same thoughts (obsessions) forever and we just learn to cope with it? Or that we will always be susceptible to thoughts all the time doesn’t matter what it is and anything can pop up and with ERP as a lifestyle will help us deal with any thought that occurs ?
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- httpet
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Recovery
Hi guys! I see a lot of you think being recovered from ocd means you no longer get intrusive thoughts, this is incorrect. EVERYONE (even people without ocd) get intrusive thoughts, being recovered from ocd means that you no longer allow thoughts of ANY kind (regardless of their content) impact your life. I hope this clears up some confusion about what life post recovery looks like; trust me I get a tonnnnnn of intrusive thoughts I just learned how to respond to them and live by my values as opposed to anything that pops up in my head. My mantra is remember: feelings aren’t facts and a thought is just a thought (don’t use these as compulsions though😘) Have a great night 😘💗🤭
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