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 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 just started doing therapy my own for ocd and depression I was feeling sad earlier I get those thoughts like again this sadness when this gonna stop I m tired I don’t want that feeling then I get the urge to fix this feeling is this OCD the needing to know how long gonna last or the wanting to fix it and make it better
I feel like I've been doing good with trying to get better. Sticking to therapy as much as I can (with ups and downs). But I just feel somehow more blue than ever. Anyone else feel like that? My self talk is such a drag. Im trying to shake it.
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