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- 1y
What are your wins?
What has been a win lately in your journey?
What has been a win lately in your journey?
I think just finding better ways to think of obsessive fears and reframing the situation. For example, I have trans OCD and so I’m scared I’m actually a trans woman even though I’ve never wanted to be a woman. I recently started seeing gender as less binary and more of a really complex idea, and I think viewing myself not as “male” or “female” but as just myself, who has mostly male tendencies and enjoyments and everything, makes me feel a lot less stressed. This also helped me with sexual orientation OCD, where I stopped wondering if I was “gay” or “straight” and just started seeing myself as somewhere in the middle, but I like many more women than men so functionally straight / maybe a little bi. So overall, sometimes reframing obsessions can help a TON even though it’s a simple change. So experimenting with ways to think about things. But also, I have pretty minor OCD so I don’t know if this will help other people
Finally starting to internalize the idea that there actually may not be anything to solve and sitting with that long enough until my compulsive behavior subsides.
Just a few days ago I told my partner about my most persistent intrusive thoughts that I thought he would judge and leave me for. I honestly feel a bit stupid for thinking this way now, though I know I couldn’t control it. But of course, he reassured me that he loved me and stayed with me
Today I over came something that had been consistently bothering me with my contamination OCD and I'm over the moon I never thought I could do it yesterday the anxiety was there but I sat with and it faded I'm so happy thank you for all your support guys and I recently started working out and I feel much better To anyone out there struggling it gets better trust me a few months ago I was at the Lowest point in my life I couldn't even leave my house I failed really badly at school but now I can even go outside I try to socialize some days are harder than others and I've had a few hiccups along the way but it has gotten much better And I'm starting a recovery course for school to make up for my grades I'm so happy guys 😭then I can finally get into uni
What did you do today to work on managing your OCD? All wins/accomplishments are welcome to be posted! :-)
I’ve seen wayyyy too many negative posts on here (I totally get it)…but can someone please share some positive experiences? Doesn’t have to be so grand, it could be just that you achieved a small goal with your ocd! I don’t want to continue feeling drowned by this debilitating disorder. I want to see what has helped some of you! So we can all encourage each other! 😊
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