Comment below a compulsion you resisted recently or a trigger that you handled well even if it was hard! Let’s celebrate our mini wins together 🫂 It’s not about what we do perfectly, but consistently! ⬇️
Though I struggle with checking for reassurance, there are some compulsions within this subtype I have gotten better at. I no longer check to see if I closed the fridge all the way or I closed the key at the faucet after doing dishes. I am resisting confessing compulsions too! I try to catch myself in the moment and say this detail is unnecessary, not important, and will only keep me in the rabbit hole of confessing every little thing when I know that is not necessary.
@Betterdays_ontheway 🙂 WOOHOO!!! You’re doing great! Keep up the marvelous work 🫂
@Betterdays_ontheway 🙂 Great job 💙I struggle with not having to confess everything compulsion to my poor husband.
@Anonymous Thanks! It’s not easy but we must keep pushing forward.
@Madison the ERP Ninja Thank you!
I resisted the compulsion of thoughts and tried to face my fears at the moment. I'm a work in progress but I did it once last week. So that's hopeful for me.
@Anonymous Amazing job!!! Keep up the good work, you got this. It may be hard at first—super hard!—but it’s doable, and it gets easier and easier the more you do it. The brain is very adaptable! ❤️🫂
@Madison the ERP Ninja Thank you 😊
Feel guilty for not giving into compulsions like rumination and confessing? I feel guilt for having an intrusive thought, trying to shrug it off or just giving it a few seconds of thought and moving along. This sounds like improvement but I still struggle with the anxiety and the guilt. The shame. I’ll be okay and then I’ll remember I have OCD and my stomach will drop and I just want to curl up and cry.
Those of you who have overcome at least a bit, if not all, of your OCD. When you went through the CBT and ERP, did it feel like the end of the world? And how did you face the fact that your fears and uncertainties might actually come to life?
I want to beat OCD because I have seen and felt the benefits of clearing my brain from unnecessary, pointless, thoughts. OCD is like 0 calorie food. It’s pointless. No nutrition or benefits come from my obsessions or compulsions. I don’t care to have answers to everything anymore. I catch myself just trying to stress myself out so that I have some worry to feed on. But like I said, it’s a 0 calorie food. I get nothing from it but wasted time and energy. My brain feels more spacious when I’m not consumed by OCD. I’m present. My personality has room to be herself without making space for bullshit. I tell myself now that worry is poison. I think Willie Nelson was the person I got that quote from? Anyways, that imagery of worries being poison for the mind has been transformative for me. I’m evolving. 💖 Thanks NOCD community.
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