Lovehearts
- Date posted
- 1y
Healed
Hi there has anyone cured themselves from OCD ? Or close to healed and what have you done or used please ?
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
There’s no cure. But it can become subclinical meaning no one not even yourself would be able to tell you have it on a day to day. ERP, radical life/self acceptance, LOTS OF THERAPY
NicaNica
- Date posted
- 1y
There’s no cure for any mental illness but you can absolutely heal and recover and live a happy life. It takes hard work, patience, and dedication to ERP and a full life style change, but it is possible.
777Q777Q
- Date posted
- 1y
Personally I feel OCD like most disorders mental or physical can become a highly manageable disorder. A person can have a good quality of life if they apply themselves with therapy, proper diet, vitamins, exercise and other self-help tools and resources. When I think about the vast majority of any type of conditions nothing is ever 100% completely resolved it is managed.
SaraaSaraa
- Date posted
- 1y
Hey ocd is not curable, ocd is MANAGEABLE. Once you manage it, it will go away; not because it will stop being there but because it will stop bothering you. I "healed" myself from ocd, (rocd, hocd). Some days tho, i still have to recognise and deal with doubts. But it's not like before, when it makes me so depressed, guilty and sad that i couldn't get out of bed. Now i regain my life, my friends, and i am generally happy with my friends and my studies. And all i did was a mix of a lot of things: 1) LEARNING THE MORE I COULD about ocd, from books, videos etc. The more you know the better. 2) trying differet tecniques to deal with it, like erp, cbt, embracing uncertainty, having some therapy. (Yk sometimes ocd is just screaming that you are scared about something being true, so i used it as an opportunity to know myself better and heal some part of my soul) 3) learning to know myself better and recognise ocd pattern (you'll learn this with experience). But i also understood some wrong beliefs at the base of my ocd thinking (like whith the right boy i should always feel happy etc.) 4) patience. It wont be easy, it wont be fast. But it will be better, i promise
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
@Saraa You recovered from hocd ?
SaraaSaraa
- Date posted
- 1y
Some phrases that really helped me with mental compulsions are: *Answering to my intrusive thoughts and questions* "Maybe yes, maybe no." "It could be, or it couldn't. But i cannot know with 100% security, therfore i should embrace uncertainty." "I can't and shouldn't control feelings, therfore they do not define me." "I i can't and shouldn't control toughts, therfore they do not define me." "I am defined by my actions, the only thing that i can control." *Dealing with the discomfort "I acknowledge i did compulsion x, and now i feel discomfort. There's nothing wrong in it. It's a feeling that i can feel." "I allow myself to feel this feeling" "I'll sit through this feeling without doing compulsions." "Feeling do not determine who am i" " Fu*k, i did again compulsion x, now i feel like shit again. Well, now i am also mad. And i allow myself to feel mad, and shitty. Best thing i can do now is sitting trough that. I'll try to not do this compulsion anymore. " "Feeling feelings doesn't mean i agree with it, nor that i disagree. Allowing myself to feel it, doesn't means that i approve or disapprove this feeling. I am just feeling it, and sitting trough it"
LoveheartsLovehearts
- Date posted
- 1y
💖😃
Anonymous1584Anonymous1584
- Date posted
- 1y
I’m far from cured and honestly, I don’t think there’s ever a real cure. I think OCD is triggered by certain life events or moments in our day. Sometimes it can be less and sometimes it can be completely debilitating. With intrusive thinking, it’s helped me to self-talk and repeat to myself that it’s just thoughts and not reality. What I’m struggling with at the moment is extreme perfectionism. It’s so hard for me to shake even though I tell myself that a lot of my thinking is OCD based. I honestly just try to stay positive and appreciate what I have in my life and keep moving forward. I would greatly benefit from some coping skills though. I’m in search of a new in-person therapist who can help with that.
LoveheartsLovehearts
- Date posted
- 1y
Thankyou all 💖💖
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- Date posted
- 23w
fully recovered
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- Date posted
- 15w
Harm ocd
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