zara khan🥴
- Date posted
- 1y
Suggestion...
How should i manage this automatic reassurance behaviour??? Pls someone help me Plsssssssss This automatic reassurance behaviour failing my hard work😔
ElevenBElevenB
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y
Just try to sit with thoughts and the uncertainty and anxiety they bring. Try not to ask anyone for reassurance, that will just make it worse. I had to get to where I didn't talk to people about my OCD because not understanding they would start reassuring me. I had to tell my family not to reassure me. It can be very lonely but people just don't understand, so there first response is to give advice and reassurance. It doesn't happen over night but you can do it.
zara khan🥴zara khan🥴
- Date posted
- 1y
I will give my 💯 Its not easy but i have to do it
loubr80loubr80
- Date posted
- 1y
This is so true, practice makes (almost) perfect, remember you wanna aim for messy because OCD wants you be to exact… you’re not listening to OCD anymore. Picture your future self… does your future (ideal - value moral self) do this? If no, neither do you anymore. When/if you talk about OCD you talk about it in the past “I used to obsess about ****, but not any more” Keep with this, I’m not saying this works for everyone but did for me!
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