is it normal to not be disgusted anymore?
i dont really care anymore. I just tell myself “eh whatever.” i know who i am. Is it normal to not let ocd control you anymore? to not be afraid of your thoughts? I had one today, and i didnt get any anxiety, but i knew it was intrusive and still physically cringed about it.
Its good that you're not disgusted anymore! It shows that you've got your OCD under control. People without OCD have these intrusive thoughts too and don't feel anxiety about it, so the fact that that's what's happening to you now shows that you're coping well
No because same. Sure there are times when my anxiety would be high but I just stopped responding to my thoughts & now it’s in the back of my head. the compulsions are still strong tho.
@Anonymous813 100%
I would say that's a win!
That’s what you want! To not care and therefore pay attention to your OCD. Not caring means your OCD thinks it isn’t a danger. O danger, no OCD symptoms.
honestly same but whenever i don’t get anxious about a thought it makes me feel like it’s real and it’s not ocd because im not getting anxious which then makes me anxious😭😭😭
@tswift123 This is what I’m struggling with now. I started taking medication and am trying to figure out why things before no longer make me anxious
GLOW GIRL!!!
One of the treatments for OCD is exposure therapy, so the more exposed we get to our thoughts and pushing through out OCD and letting those thoughts pass is how we become resilient to these ideas, again, instrusive thoughts live within all human beings, we just happen to have more than most, its an anxiety disorder. The way I have began to heal and actually deal with my OCD is truly by letting the thoughts pass and knowing they are just thoughts.
Don’t know if this is a part of ocd recovery or what but my hocd thoughts don’t give me anxiety anymore. Sometimes it feels like this tapped into my feelings. I don’t know how to explain it. Like when I get the thoughts now my mind is like “you’ve always been like that” but I feel no anxiety. I’m also regaining some attraction for the opposite sex and that feels great but at the same time my mind says I’m lying to myself and I get this weird feeling in my chest. Idk what this is.
Ironically. Becoming desensitized to my intrusive thoughts sometimes frightens me. The security of knowing I had such intense anxiety when I had violent/bad/scary intrusive thoughts comforted me because it made me realize I didn’t want them and found them bad. If I’m not reacting to them, I’ve convinced myself that I think it’s okay and maybe deep down I am a bad person? Does anyone else relate to this? My anxiety has felt better lately toward my intrusive thoughts as I am trying to give them no value (that and probably my lexapro lol) but is what I’m feeling normal at all or can anyone relate?
Today I don’t care about my ocd I’m on the upward spiral and genuinely just have been ignoring my thoughts like I could care less. This hasn’t happened in a long time. Feels weird but also good. I’m even writing this having intrusive thoughts and just letting them pass. anyone every have these days and then bam the next day it’s hard to ignore the thoughts ? i get these days every now and then and it’s a great feeling, but also feels weird bc I’m used to my brain analyzing every thought or action I do.
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