What is life like without OCD

well i can say with what i know before i had ocd, because i only started suffering when i turned 16 and was pretty much normal before that. it’s basically SO MUCH more peaceful hahah, i remember i would think so much less and used to imagine up lots of funny scenarios in my head about people i knew and i was very creative, thinking about different concepts or daydreaming, not obsessively. i didn’t have to worry about thinking about anything cos i could make it stop at any time. i thoight about my future and what i wanted to do and did a lot more stuff because i had a lot more general ideas about things i wanted to do in the day like baking or making silly videos or trying something knew. now a lot of the time i kinda sit doing nothing ruminating haha- im trying to stop. it’s also like i never thought if i was a bad person or had guilt or anything, i thought i was a pretty good person and i liked myself a lot more. i also wasn’t at all paranoid, i had some social anxiety that made me overthink but that was the only time i would overthink without being able to stop. and yeh it was pretty chill and i just kinda did whatever i wanted without being scared and never thought bad stuff would happen.

I think it's going to be really freeing. This is why I hope everyone struggling gets the help they need. Things will get better

I never doubted who I was and how I would act. I was very grounded in being me. I really don’t remember have many intrusive thoughts, I know they say everyone has them but mine were very few and far between. If one did come up I think “yuck that was a bad thought” and go about my day. When ocd happened it was like a light switch, it even mysteriously went away a few days later but then returned. That was ages ago before much was know about ocd. At least now we have more understanding.

I wonder this often