- Username
- FJustRightOCD
- Date posted
- 23w ago
Reassurance seeking worsens OCD; seek therapy instead for true relief.
Seeking reassurance is making your OCD worse. For goodness sake, please school urself on this
To people who think that "we know that reassurance seeking isn’t the way but being able to feel like your not crazy for two minutes is so relieving" - grow up and stop condoning it. It is so sad how sneaky your OCD is being - please talk to a therapist and/or read this article.: https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/reassurance-seeking-ocd-anxiety-how-to-stop-cycle?utm_adgroup=&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=NOCD_PM_US&gclid=CjwKCAjw9cCyBhBzEiwAJTUWNRPQdMC3Qr_jIeP7TZs5Te3utQbOtiihwe2ppRvLh7qkG-6RCGF9vhoCX6wQAvD_BwE "To Anna, Taylor’s reassurance felt urgent. In the moment, it seemed like the only thing that would calm her down. Taylor, meanwhile, was strengthening Anna’s dependence on her response. “The hard thing about reassurance is that for most people, [reassurance] would help, but it feeds into the OCD,” David says. “You have an intrusive thought, you ask someone for reassurance, and you might feel better for some time, but then the OCD keeps cycling through. It comes back.”