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Can you obssess about recovery?
About anxiety and ocd recovery? I swear if I hear yes that means we really can obssess over ANYTHING đ
About anxiety and ocd recovery? I swear if I hear yes that means we really can obssess over ANYTHING đ
Very interesting thread. I notice that almost anything, even the positive stuff can be tinged with OCD & GAD . For example working on recovery, sports , music, movies , personal interests. I think often things can get taken too far where obsessive and compulsive feelings can partially ruin even the greatest of things . Having healthy balance of anything is important.
Yes!
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Omg đ this is insanity! OK I had a feeling bc I've been obsessively reading about it, listening to podcasts, reading books etc đ¤Śââď¸
If you can elaborate on them, I would be more than happy.
This is not for reassurance btw! I was talking with a friend of mine about our disorders, she has depressive and anxiety issues while I'm saving for an therapist who can take me seriously I told her about my suspects of ocd and she told me she also had ocd and she's now cured, and I was like uhhhh it's that possible you get cured just like that??? She told she has the compulsions of checking the stove was off, the lights were off and eating her nails, then she said her therapist told her ocd is provoke by anxiety which is something I get but I'm not sure at all you just can erase ocd just like that and also provoke it. Like, is not an switch who you can turn on and off I know anxiety makes people to have certains compulsions but once again I'm just here to ask Sorry if this sounds mean, I'm here to learn
The subject of OCD matters to the sufferer because it feels like confirmation that they are fundamentally unlovable and unwantedâas if even existence itself doesnât want them. They feel like an error, carrying a deep sense of guilt and shame, as if they were inherently wrong. They suffer from low self-esteem and a deep internalized shame, because long ago, they were fragmented and learned a pattern of fundamental distrustâespecially self-distrust. But the real trouble doesnât come from the content of the most vile or taboo thoughts. It comes from the fact that the sufferer lacks self-love. Thatâs why, when you begin to walk the road to recovery, youâre taught unconditional self-acceptanceâbecause thatâs what all sufferers of OCD have in common: if you arenât 100% sure, if there isnât absolute certainty, the doubt will continue to attack you and your core values. It will make you doubt everythingâeven your own aversion to the thoughts. You have to relearn how to trust yourselfânot because you accept that you might become a murderer somedayâbut because you enter a deep state of acceptance about who you truly are. Itâs not about becoming a monster at all. Itâs about making peace with what lies at the root of the fear. Making peace with the guilt. With the shame. Making peace with yourself and the person you fear you might be. Because that fear is not rooted in reality. Itâs not rooted in any true desire to act. Itâs rooted in your identityâspecifically, in what might threaten it. Thatâs what confirms the belief that you are fundamentally wrong. And OCD fuels that belief by using intrusive taboo thoughts to attack your very sense of self. But then I wonder: letâs say, for example, someone fears being or becoming a sexually dangerous personâhow could that person practice unconditional self-acceptance? I would never accept myself if I were to harm anyoneâthe thought alone makes me want to cry. I know itâs not about whether or not someone acts on the thought. Itâs about the core fear underneath it. So how do you accept yourself when the thoughtsâand the feelings around themâfeel so completely unacceptable ?
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