Harm OCD success stories

I have a success story. When I was a young adult, still living with my family, we adopted two adorable little kittens. While playing with them, I suddenly started to have very upsetting thoughts about hurting them. I went to my bedroom and felt horrible for a few hours. I think this was before my OCD diagnosis, but I had read about harm OCD before, so I guess I suspected something like that might be going on. The kittens were so cute and I loved them so much, I decided I couldn't stand to avoid them, so the only thing I could do was to go cuddle with them and just trust myself not to hurt them. It worked! I held the kittens, nothing bad happened, and the thoughts faded. Of course, my OCD soon found other themes to focus on -- health fears in particular -- and those other obsessions eventually caused a major crisis for me. But one of those cats became my best buddy and helped me through that crisis. Then I took her with me when I moved out to live on my own. She was such a great little cat! I'm so glad I was able to take that leap of faith.

I got one for ya, I'm dealing with harm OCD. I get thoughts that what If I killed someone with my car and I don't remember or what if I cause a fatal fire. Started doing ERP and it's helping tremendously. Living with uncertainty is terrifying but it gets better but you have to put in the work. This journey will be long and you will fail sometimes and that is okay. Iv had OCD since I was 10, and I just found out about it at 24, and I'm now 25. It's taken enough from me. I plan on getting my sweet revenge and I got a BIG sweet tooth. You got this friend. You got this

Yes! I would love to hear the same.

I’d like to hear some too :)

Welcome to the NOCD community! There are some great success stories here you can read!https://www.treatmyocd.com/my-ocd-journey