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 🙂
Can OCD mimic depression? With this theme I’m always wondering if I have OCD or depression. It first started out as harm OCD and now this. Today I told myself if I did have depression then it’s treatable and I would work on it. Then I started to feel depressed and emotional and like had an urge to google the difference. When I did this I just broke down because I felt like I related to them, it made me worse. However when I look up OCD symptoms it makes me feel better. So now I’m unsure. Almost like OCD wants me to believe it’s depression
Does anyone else ever feel like they don’t feel “bad enough” to have OCD, or that they don’t feel “the right way” for it? Or like they’re just saying they have OCD as an excuse? Because i was so much better for like 3 weeks now and now im on my period and i started doubting again. So because of that im scared that i was feeling to good and that my fear is actually true.
This is kind of a weird question, but I recently increased my SSRI dosage and have experienced tremendous relief. It has quieted my intrusive thoughts so much and my compulsions are no longer as all-consuming. However, I don’t want to be on this high of a dosage forever and know that medication alone shouldn’t be my only fix. I’m seeing a new psychiatrist on Wednesday and am wondering if the recent decrease in frequency of my symptoms will be a bar to my getting ocd treatment? In other words, if in this present moment I’m doing better, but up until a few days ago my compulsions were taking up pretty much every moment of my waking day, will I still be classified as having ocd? I start getting worried when I feel better that I don’t actually have ocd and just use it as a defense mechanism to avoid consequences of my actions/I’m secretly a terrible person
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