Anyone willing to share how debilitating their OCD has been? 1. Able to work? 2. Consider yourself miserable? I haven’t been able to work three years and have been occasionally suicidal many many years
I'm on leave for my job cause of it and I feel like I might never be able to go back or function normally and it causes me even more stress, I really do feel miserable and like my life is forever going to be focused on this thought
It also triggers my suicidal/harm ocd, where I feel like I'm going to accidentally or subconsciously harm myself or worse cause of the thoughts even though I don't want to:(
@Anonymous You’re not alone. It sounds fucking crazy but please look up Chris Palmer Keto diet. Harvard and Stanford in these few months is researching keto and finding for some reason it’s healing bipolar and schizophrenia often. Trying it for OCD, some small benefit but it’s not even been two weeks yet. But I can feel a trajectory. I really mean it. I hate quack science and fad diets but take a look. If it’s between suicide or trying it, like my situation, I decided to do it. I can live without sugar and without bread and brains. I can’t stand OCD at this level anymore
@Anonymous I'm not fully understanding the Chris Palmer thing. Is it a diet that's supposed to help OCD? Sorry, but I'm having a hard time focusing lately
Unfortunately, OCD can definitely be a very crippling depressive disorder. I’ve been working on treating my OCD and I’m doing a lot better but I definitely am still struggling but ,I highly recommend looking up how to treat your OCD and as you slowly get relief from your OCD , I cannot tell you the relief that you will feel. OCD is treatable, but alot of work and takes time. I’m sorry you feel this way. OCD truly is terrible. At one point I had harm OCD and thought I was a horrible monster that was going to try to kill my family. I was able to treat it and get better and so can you. Please keep trying to push through don’t let OCD get the best of you. 
Do you think it's treatable with every theme? I have the worst 😔
1. I am able to hold a job, yes. 2. Yes I am miserable
I am disabled with OCD. Can't work and hardly function on a daily basis. I have no idea how I'm going to start working again. It seems impossible, but the funds are running low and my marriage is suffering bc of all this. It's become a hell like no other! I'm so scared and don't know how to fix my life right now
@Speckles So sorry.. had a note about keto above. Not the fad diet. Sounds wild but it’s slightly helping me a week and a half in. Last ditch effort. But lots of people online saying it helped their OCD and new research at Harvard and Stanford recently , take a look
@Anonymous I will look into that. Thank you!! I can use all the help that's out there.
@Speckles Good luck, hope it might be a fit for you.
Yes I do think all ocd regardless or theme or obsession or amount is treatable . there are a lot of studies that show that OCD is very treatable but it will take a lot of work and  time and patience and  and dedication to treat it.  As you continue to learn how to properly manage OCD and treat it you will find it easier to work on different themes of ocd . I do not have as many things as you, but I have a couple.  You’d be surprised how much all of OCD has in common, regardless of what the obsession or theme is. Please continue to treat it and you will get better but it’s gonna take time and you might go a little backwards in the process. It’s not a linear process but it is a very doable. you have to keep trying until you get better. I’m rooting for you :)
Thank you... I'm so desperate now. I really am hoping to get help soon, so I can beat this thing!
@Speckles Ocd is hard but you will get better just keep going.
How long did it take to make this? And is it actually possible?
People who went from a really bad time with OCD to a better time now. Is it really possible? What was your theme? Did you take medication?
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!
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