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- 1y
It’s been like this for a year
I saw someone on here say they dealt with POCD for only 3 months and they just got better…I’ve been dealing with the same theme every day for the past year now. What does that mean?
I saw someone on here say they dealt with POCD for only 3 months and they just got better…I’ve been dealing with the same theme every day for the past year now. What does that mean?
It wholly depends on the person’s life experiences and how far deep in the OCD rabbit hole you’re in. You post a lot of reassurance seeking posts, which just makes OCD worse. That’s why therapists say to not seek reassurance, check, ruminate, etc. because it prolongs symptoms and OCD issues overall. Most likely, that person stopped doing compulsions completely, even though it’s really hard, and threw themselves into ERP with their therapist. And they could’ve just have developed OCD and got help nearly immediately, so there’s not years of bad habits built up and lots of issues connected to OCD due to compulsions and rituals. It took me 6 years to fully recover. It’s going to be different person to person. Comparison is a killer of hope.
Youre afraid that because youve dealt with it longer it might mean something deeper? Youre looking for certainty but trust me when i say that ocd wont let you have that certainty. Its like a monster that eats certainty and gets hungrier the more you feed it. How do you kill it? Starve it. Stop looking for certainty and remember that youre not alone! I believe in you!
Okay so I’ve dealt with harm OCD from the beginning. Started off with harming my kids, going to jail and then harming myself. The harm to myself stuck around for a long time. Then it went away and other themes picked up but it keeps coming back. This is like the third time it’s come back and every single time it comes back it feels worse. It feels like this is the time something is going to happen. Has anyone ever dealt with this? With old themes constantly coming back and feeling more real? Please any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks
So with my theme of ocd, ( hocd ) I get persistent intrusive images, and thoughts. It’s not like one or two a day. Like if I’m out for the whole day they’re constant. I feel I can’t even look at a girl now without her intrusive thoughts about her or about me fancying her and even sexual intrusive thoughts.. It’s awful. It’s everywhere I look. Is this common with ocd with any themes? Like is it constant for you guys too?
I’m so scared I’ll be stuck in this forever soo soo scared
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