Happy Monday morning motivation

Hello. I am not sure if your intention was to inspire people not to give up and not to keep postponing their hopes and dreams or just make them laugh. It sure made me laugh. I've been going through some really tough time, doing soul searching, remeniscing, regretting and I haven't smiled in at least 3 weeks. Thank you for posting this. It really made me not smile, but laugh out loud. 😊. Intentionally or not you somehow always manage to lift my spirits and make me feel better. I hope life is treating you kindly.

Hello. I have also started. Yesterday was a day when my ocd played some mean tricks on me. After showering I had trouble getting out of the cabin. I was scared to touch the cabin doors because it would make me feel dirty. I have no idea why I was giving in. After 6 or 7 failures, my anger got stronger than my anxiety and I remembered our plan and just got out and went on with my day. I did write down why I was scared. But only after I calmed down. It was a very good idea. Thank you. How are you doing? It can be tough. I know that we should keep the end goal in mind. I am here for you to talk about anything and support you. Thinking of you and keeping my fingers crossed for you and me. Have a lovely evening and the 1st of May if you celebrate it in USA. 🤞🍀😊

1. Write down whatever the feelings are behind the messages ocd is telling you. Read between the lines. 2. Think of any (doesn't even matter how big or small) reasons why you may feel that way and list them all down. 3. Separate them into two lists. One in your control and another that is not. 4. Work on the list in your control. Make plans, start plans, do anything you can that's on it now of its small. 5. Do one thing every day that may be on that list. Even if it's a little bit. 6. The other list that's out of your control, keep it or bin it. Just remind yourself that it's not in your power. 7. Write a new list of stuff you'd like to do, not stuff you feel you have to. 8. Every time you do something hard, take one thing off that list and reward yourself. If you can hold off and do a couple things first before rewarding yourself then go for that. If you can think of anything else then I'm open to it. I'm going to try this for 2 weeks. I feel as if I will be anxious and stressed but I'm going to stick to it

Hello. I will try to find the book. I am sure I need it. Not to deal with her, because she is not mature enough to concider other people's feelings and opinions, she immediately feels attacked and lashes back. She's just informed me that I have no right expressing my feelings, views and opinions and that we are done. I have not answered. I just said to myself : Hallelujah! I am a free bird. 😁. I am glad your friend's with you. I will start on Monday as well. This weekend an old friend of mine is coming to visit me with her partner and I will be in the same situation as you. Thank you from my whole heart and soul for your kind wishes. One of the things I am thankful for from the previous year of my life is that I met you. Honestly! Enjoy your weekend. Both of you. On Monday we start. 😊

Hello. I hope you are doing well. I hope you managed to successfully deal with the stress the other day. I have fallen behind with my plan. There have been holidays here from April 27th till May 3rd. I wasn't alone and although my ocd managed to make my life quite hard at some specific moments during this period, I just did my best not to let it win completely over me and at the same time hide it from the people around me. I am sad about that. I don't even know why I was so weak that OCD managed to creep in. All seemed ok and relaxed. I felt ok. And then out of nowhere I started doubting my own eyes, logical facts I am 99,999% sure of,... Ughhh. I have noticed that I have been avoiding situations and going to certain places where I am scared I will see or hear sth that will trigger my ocd. I am terribly scared of exhaustion. There were years where my work and ocd completely drained all the energy out of me, on daily bases for quite some years. After that I reached my lowest point with ocd. I spent almost half a day on compulsions and at the end I was so exhausted that I would have rather died than taken another shower again. That was 2 years ago. On that day I started taking Zoloft again after 6 years and life with ocd got better. But now that I am way better in living with it, I am terrified of being as tired as back then when OCD was still the boss of me. I just couldn't survive another session of half a day compulsions ever again. Before, I would shower for hours and hours, again and again. Now I am done in 10-15min. But now I am fighting ocd on my way out of the shower cabin. I keep having the feeling that I have touched the cabin doors on my way out and am dirty, so I go back in, take a quick rinse and try again. After a few times I am so annoyed by both my ocd and my bumb head ( that's what I call it when I am giving into ocd's demands), that I just go out and don't look back. Today is the first day everything is calm again, I am alone and now I am starting again with our plan. What experiences do you have with ocd. Do you notice any pattern when it starts acting up? Have you noticed anything during the ocd's madness parties, that repeats itself and might give us the advantage over it? I have noticed some things in my case, but I will tell you more after at least a week of seriously following our plan. I am planning now to go and cook some nice vegan vegetable soup. And I will listen to some nice music. And I will feel like a bird, a free bird, because I will leave my ocd in the other room to play with my 3 cats for a while and leave me alone. For the risk of sounding stupid or nuts, when I am sick and tired of it trying to push back in for days at a time, I do actually tell my ocd outloud to go in another room and relax for some hours because I need a break from it and if it wants to stay with me on a "sort of friendly basis", we need to respect one another. 😂🤣. It sounds psychotic, I know, but it kind of works for me. Not always, but most of the times. Sending you my support and positive thoughts. Stay strong. If you have a tough time, I am here for you. If you have a great time, I am here as well. I need to thank you and as well some other members here for all the support before my birthday. It really was hard on me. I don't know how I would have managed without your kindness. I have always found it silly when people were freaking out because of their turning a certain age. I never thought it could happen to me. But it did. Even harder because of ocd. People with ocd usually have a lot of regrets about people and time that we let ocd take away from us. And about missed experiences. It is really hard when one starts dwelling on it. Thank you again. Have a great day. I hope you are having a lovely sunny day. It's cloudy and rainy here today. Quite ok with me. But the weather forecast says sunny and warn tomorrow. Something to look forward to. 😁. 🤞🍀🤗😊