I have been working on my ocd and I do not feel afraid of my ocd right now but I do feel very depressed and unmotivated is this a normal part of healing from ocd?
Wow! I’ve been thinking the same thing all week. Blows my mind how many people in this community are communicating about feeling the same things I’m feeling. Thank you for sharing this. Hopefully we are on the road to recovery and that this is part of it. All my best to you ☀️
@Anonymous I hope so ,it just feels weird to have a huge change in my mental state in the last the couple day vs what I was feeling the last 4 months.
Thats how ive felt this week. Just kinda numb, depressed, and irritable. I dont feel panic or fear or repulsion from the intrusive thoughts, i just disagree with them. But then it acts like the thoughts are true when that happens. Just waiting for it to be over
@Logan_B Its weird that thoughts are no longer scaring me. Sorry you feel how I feel . It kinda breaks my heart to know others are hurting from ocd like I am. Ocd is painful and just terrible.
@Brooke cookie Its natural to eventually be desensitized to them. That desensitization doesnt last forever. But its always a stressful time to deal with when ocd switches things up on you, especially when youre depressed.
@Logan_B I am hoping the fact I am becoming desensitized to my ocd is a sign of recovery. I have been working on my ocd. Hopefully this is a sign that we are starting to make progress on our OCD.
I am experiencing this too. The biggest thing to realize is recovery is not a straight path. It is a rollercoaster with ups and downs and loops. It can be difficult to stay motivated to get better, it can feel hopeless at times. But you’ll get better someday, I promise.
I’m kinda feeling this way myself right now. I feel like I’m having the thoughts but no real fear to try and avoid them or even justify why I shouldn’t be having them. It’s making feel anxious all together and uncomfortable. Maybe we’re all experiencing some kind of back door spike?
To be honest I haven’t had a depressed/unmotivated day since I got into my therapy. It took a few weeks but I have to say between my therapy and Prozac it has helped me tremendously. I’m so sorry you are going feeling this way right now. We are will have our days and the best way to handle it I feel is self care. Maybe go for a walk or read a good book or even a good movie 🙂
I have had ocd for decades! Could I still be cured???? (Of you can call it that?) I have seen different therapists but it never had fully left me...not by any stretch of the imagination. I do want to be free of this ocd and its power over me and all the bad that it brought into my life!!! Some days I am strong and feel like I am fighting it put other days...many days...I don't get things done or if I do I take a long time to-do the things I need to get done. I feel like I know this is just then ocd stopping me and that these are just thoughts but nobody in my family understands and though they have shared my journey and hated it a I do.....it just feels like I want so bad to be the best person I coukd be but I avoid places, people, things, that have any reminder of my ocd.......and so it restricts me from getting better and completing tasks the way I used to. Now UI might go and make 2-3 trips cuz I am worried to shop at a place and therefore it takes my time up. The avoidance I do is bad! When I actually don't listen to my ocd and don't avoid something...I feel great! ,However, it happens so rarely!!! I.dont know how finding a therapist through NOCD will help me. It is not in person and two be honest I almost think I need medicine to push me along. I don't have anybsteady and consistent improvements. However, I don't think I want to be on medication for the rest of my life! I am very confused!
I am having a real hard time with meta-ocd and thoughts about feeling depressed and be like this forever. Or the thought I never feel normal again or never feel connected to normal life things and normal people. The intrusive thoughts are here like the whole day and they are all about my mental health. And I obsess about how I feel and what I feel with everything I do. It’s so hard to explain. If someone- a therapist or someone who dealt with this has tips or word of encouragement right now, that would me great. I feel like everything I want to learn myself about ocd and coming to this forum also is a bit compulsive. It is so confusing 🫤
I’ve been getting stuck in my understanding of OCD lately. When I have intrusive thoughts, although I have OCD, I’m not supposed to label them as part of my condition? Instead I just say maybe/maybe not? It feels like it takes the wind out of my sails a bit in recovery? Like having cancer, but when I go to chemo, I’m supposed to say “maybe I have cancer, maybe I don’t.” Would anyone be able to speak to this and increase my insight and understanding? Thank you!
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