Recovery?

When can you tell you’re in recovery? I mean, how does it feel like? It’s been a while since I got better thanks to meditation, mindfulness and a new therapist from the brief strategic therapy whose hints really helped my intrusive thoughts losing power. I still get intrusive thoughts / images but I can handle it most often, and they seem to arise less during the day. I’m afraid I’ll go into a new crisis soon bc it just feels too good to be true, or maybe it’s not recovery yet.. I don’t know.

ReadyForImpr...

Date posted: 2y

Basically, you'll still have intrusive thoughts like everyone does, but likely not as often and not as "loud" or persistent. You may notice them or not. When you notice them, they're just there, but you won't react or do anything about them. You call the shots though, not OCD. You may get snagged occasionally, but that's normal. At least this is what I've been told!

Nica

Date posted: 2y

@ReadyForImprovement Yes to all of this. And you also just don’t care about your OCD anymore, so there never becomes an obsession where you then do compulsions. I have intrusive thoughts all the time but I don’t care. Therefore my brain doesn’t care, and nothing comes of it.

Alessia

Date posted: 2y

@Nica Thank you❤️ seems to be on the right way

Nica

Date posted: 2y

@Alessia You’re welcome! You’ve come very far from when you got on here

Jewelsandgems

Date posted: 2y

Yeah thats exciting to hear its working for someone!!

Alessia

Date posted: 2y

Also, previously my anxiety emerged with backdoor spikes, but now when I’m noticing the thoughts don’t give me anxiety I don’t start to panic as I used to. Why?

Nica

Date posted: 2y

@Alessia Because you’ve habituated. That’s recovery. The thoughts don’t matter unless you assign meaning to them.

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