- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Grounding
What grounding techniques do you all use?
What grounding techniques do you all use?
My favorite technique is to try and focus on your hand, it’s very hard to explain but you try and feel your hand with your mind or feel the presence of your hand. If you get really good at this try doing it with your entire arm, then try both arms, then legs. Eventually you can do it with your entire body.
Breathing, meditation, and self compassion. Breathing just deep belly breaths. Meditation I imagine a rope connected between me and earth. Compassion, I just tell myself “you’re safe, you are doing great, there is nothing to worry about other than living life.”
This is great: -Grounding Techniques: https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/grounding-techniques
My therapist gave me this.
Does anyone have tips on good sleep hygeine? What does everyone use to relax and wind down before bedtime?
Does anyone like go through waves. Your mind is super silent maybe a couple of thoughts but you are able to brush it off? But then out of nowhere your mind just starts rushing with every thought? If so, how do you cope with this? It drains me.
What ERP or other techniques do you use to combat fear of cancelation? Especially curious about those with taboo thoughts, false memory ocd and event ocd based off of real events where the fear of cancellation may actually hold some validity. I once did my own ERP not under a therapist but just on my own I decided to create an anonymous account on Twitter and defend a friend who was receiving online criticism. I knew that this would be semi-controversial so I was expecting backlash and when I recieved troll replies it actually seemed to be a really helpful low-stakes exposure activity. Is this something that others have done? Low stakes online posts etc. that you know will recieve negative responses? I have had severe OCD as a kid as pretty much every subtype under the sun, and as an adult I pretty much have all the types under control except for this real event and false memory and taboo thought OCD. It seems like a different beast since it's somewhat realistic in the camcellation culture today, and it's confusing to address. Ive shut down almost all social accounts and it's keeping me from progressing in a career where I need to have an online presence :/
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