I have had Pure O off and on for 14 years . In the summer it gets worse . I have had Homosexual OCD, Harm OCD Suicidal OCD health anxiety and schitzophrenia OCD. I have learned that whenever I feel like confessing it’s usually OCD and that is a compulsion . I probably have sought reassurance 8 hours a day . However I am just letting the thoughts and feelings and urges be there . The schitzophrenia one has me in a hold right now . I have put myself in the hospital because I thought I was hearing things . The docs came back with no, you have severe anxiety and OCD.

I had the schizophrenia ocd. Hang in there and try to accept the uncertainty. Sense of humor helps too! Bring on the flying elephants!

It’s your anxiety making you think that you’re hearing things. That’s probably what the doctors are saying. Try to accept whatever you think it is you’re ‘hearing’ and try to make room for it.

Jo jo .. it’s scary. The docs don’t believe me when I tell them I’m hearing things. . They say it’s my mind .

Ok

Anxiety is a nasty nasty thing ! It has made me feel I wanted to actually kill myself or hurt someone else !

To me it sounds like you’re pushing the anxiety away and not accepting it enough. The more you tell your brain that you’re scared of anxiety, the more of a negative effect it’ll have on you unfortunately. Keep pushing along and let the group know if you have any other questions, there are many people here who can try to help!

Hey! So ocd in simplest terms is uncontrollable thought suppression. Our obsessions are the thoughts and our compulsions are what we do to suppress them, and as we learned thought suppression is impossible and never works. So try to let the thoughts in as you would any other thought not related to ocd

@Mikila I have a question. If you say that you’ve been dealing with Pure O for 14 years, that you seek reassurance 8 hours a day, and that you’re knowledgeable regarding letting thoughts/feelings/urges be there, to me this kind of post above seems like you’re seeking reassurance from us in this group. From what I’ve learned during OCD recovery, this is very unhelpful and only feeds the OCD beast unfortunately. It actually seems like you’re very knowledgeable on this topic and I think you probably have a lot more confidence than you realize to fight back against OCD.

It’s one of the toughest things to just let the thoughts be there but that’s exactly how to get rid of pure o. Let them be in your head with OUT ruminating on then and with OUT trying to make yerself feel better by “figuring it out” eventually your brain will habituate to you not giving in and the thoughts will become less and less important I promise. Also get rid of all caffeine. It takes a few weeks but makes a HUGE difference

I have the same how are you know ?