- Date posted
- 1y ago
i love you all. (appreciation post + some tips)
i love you, with pure o, whose ocd makes you waste time the entire day by ruminating about hypotheticals. i love you, with real event, whose ocd makes you treat your emotional pov on a past situation like the gospel. i love you, with pocd, whose ocd makes you believe you are a pedophile. i love you, with false memory, whose ocd makes you believe you did things you have no proof of. i love you, with rocd, whose ocd torments you for being "unfaithful", "immoral"; and demonizes your partner. i love you, with somatic ocd, whose ocd makes you hyperanalyze your bodily function to the point of exhaustion. i love you, with magical thinking, whose ocd makes you spend indescribable amounts of time practicing rituals to ensure nothing terrible with happen. i love you, with existentialism, where your ocd torments you about meanings, meanings, meanings. i love you, with religious/moral scrupulosity, whose ocd makes you hyperanalyze your relationship with god. i love you, with contamination ocd, whose ocd makes you scared of touching anything, anyone, and makes you so scared of getting infected. i love you, with harm ocd, who is being tormented by thoughts of being harmed or harming others. i love you, with racism ocd, whose ocd makes you question your morality and stances on race issues. i love you, with responsibility ocd, whose ocd torments you with an inflated sense of responsibility and guilt. i love you, with sexual/sexuality related ocd, whose ocd has made you uncomfortable with anything relating to your vulnerability and intimacy. i love you, with gender ocd, whose ocd has made you question your gender identity and brought you great confusion. i love you, with perfectionism ocd, whose ocd has made you hyperanalyze your surroundings like you're a divine being with incredible knowledge on the "perfect" details. I LOVE ALL OF YOU. your ocd does not stop me from seeing the person behind the disorder. you are suffering and you won't have to suffer forever. this post is not only a reminder you are loved, you are worthy, you are SO beautiful and brave, but also a reminder that ocd is extremely treatableā it doesn't have to be chronic. it doesn't have to take away your happiness. it doesn't have to take away your sense of self. with enough effort and self-love, you can make this disorder a thing of the past. i tried to include all the subtypes in this post, for ocd can manifest in so many different ways for so many different people. in the end, it's still ocd. and i'm sure that people with multiple subtypes especially know exactly what i mean when i sayā the pain is so real for all of us. but thankfully, and fortunately, there is HOPE. you can have hope. you don't have to compulse right now. when you opened this app, what did you think to yourself? did you do it out of compulsion? did you do this to check-in with your therapist? did you do it to complete homework? there's a bunch of possibilities. what matters is you downloaded the NOCD app because, deep down inside, there is a part of you that knows you can defeat this utterly terrible disorder that has you by the neck sometimes. like i have said above, you do not need to suffer. in fact, you could probably stop ruminating right now if you wanted to. it should be effortless. we are scared because ocd knows exactly how to make a fear seem real. ocd is about fearing a hypothetical. a positive answer to a negative what if. when i thought about writing this post, i realised how much i needed to hear someone loves me, too. that somewhere on this earth, someone cares. because even if we don't realise it, many of us with ocd also suffer from depression. so take it from this post- it's your sign to have faith in your recovery. YOU CAN DO IT. you don't need to search for reassurance, to compulsively google, to do anything at all except focus on yourself at the moment and your recovery. the past or your future are irrelevant here. the past doesn't matter, and your future is to be dealt with at the right time. for now... remember these 3 fundamentals: 1. you are loved, SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU KNOW. so much more than your ocd allows you to accept. 2. you are worthy. like every other human being on this planet, you have a purpose. whether that is to do something never before seen, or simply exist, is enough. 3. your ocd might be debilitating, but you are so much more than a slave to your thoughts. they're thoughtsā they hold NO power. no matter what they tell you, or how much proof they bring you, or how much distress they bring you, they're just thoughts. imagine a baby duckling telling you constantly it's going to turn into a killer stegosaurus and kill youā yeah, that won't ever happen. it sounds convincing, you might think "huh, well what if"- STOP RIGHT THERE. that's the ocd trap. it doesn't matter what it tells you. a duckling is a duckling, just like a thought is a thought. i know many of you who opened this app might've never expected such a long post from a random nocd cohabitant, but i'm glad you got to the end of it. i hope you got a sense of inner peace reading this. sending all the love.
- Real Events OCD
- "Pure" OCD
- Magical Thinking OCD
- Perfectionism OCD
- Health Concern OCD
- Relationship OCD
- False Memory OCD
- Suicidal OCD