Ocd

What would happen if you stopped doing those things a certain amount of times? Youd probably have a panic attack right? Its like taking the long way to school every day to avoid the bully. The bully never goes away. But you decide one day to go the way of the bully and you get beat up. Then you do it again the next day and get beat up again. And again. You get beat up 20 times and the 21st time the bully isnt there. If you keep trying to neutralize the anxiety, your ocd will never go away. Us ocd people dont want to get beat up. Its natural. But its your natural instincts thats keeping the ocd going. So its up to you to make the decision.

Is the exposure therapy with your NOCD therapist working? I think that is the way to really lessen the amount of OCD in our lives. We have to practice exposing ourselves to things that cause us anxiety and then refusing to do the compulsions. After a time, we learn that we can live our lives just the way we want to. It’s the compulsions that make everything take twice as long. We have got to get to where we can let all the Obsessive thoughts just be there and do whatever they want to do in our minds—but we don’t try to do anything to neutralize them or fix them. We “risk” bad things happening. The rule is to NEVER DO A COMPULSION. Even if you think, “Oh, this time it’s real,” it is not. OCD is never real. You have to starve it. You can’t do anything about the thoughts that swirl in your head, but you can learn to live life exactly the way you want, without taking extra time to do anything. That will be the goal of Exposure therapy.

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