- Date posted
- 1y ago
OCD trying to Mess Up everything?
Hi NOCD community! I have this “self sabotage” intrusive though, or maybe it’s a compulsions since I seem to be active in this process. Every time I hear of an exposure exercise with my therapist I have this sort of magical thinking that it will be the exposure that makes me feel a big difference in my symptom relief. Then I gotta let my inside Debbie Downer come out and say “No, this is goofy and you are negative and will always be, this will never stop”. Anyone dealing with these “self sabotage” thoughts? Sometimes they seem to be made purposefully by me even though it’s intrusive and I know I need to avoid talking to myself like this. It’s as if it’s some sort of compulsions I do when I am really feeling down and loosing hope, but try to motivate myself: then the “self sabotage” barges into the situation. It’s as if the logical me knows what he wants : to be happy and manage my OCD and Depression. But the “current” me is so used to negativity, pessimism, Harm thoughts, and depression that he will do everything to throw sticks in my wheels, demotivate me and discredit good things that I do. Any thoughts? Anyone living the same situation? Anyone with success stories to share?