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1. Constantly researching symptoms and medical conditions to try to figure out if I’m dying. 2. Avoiding all T.V. shows with potentially good-looking people out of fear that my partner will find them attractive. 3. Constantly checking to see if I have chemistry with my partner and assuming our relationship is doomed every time I didn’t feel “excited”.

Reassurance and avoidance, giving up those compulsions greatly reduced my ocd.

Ruminating and going on message boards for reassurance! Focusing more on living then getting caught up in the thoughts!

I’ve reduced trying to figure out my existential OCD thoughts.

seeking reassurance, constantly checking my camera at home thinking my cats are in danger, googling anything health related!

After successful therapy and being in recovery I have reduced if not totally discontinued all of my compulsion, I never after over 20 years of suffering thought it was possible but it is and can be for anyone as long as you put the effort in and stick with the ick, especially on days you're sure your not gonna make it to tomorrow ♥️

Checking that the stove is off relentlessly.

Checking that the front door is locked before bed endlessly 😅

Googling symptoms! I used to spend hours a day down the Google rabbit hole; now I hardly ever google a symptom.

Avoidance has been the biggest one. I found I couldn't face my other compulsions until I stopped avoiding triggers and having my therapist as an accountability partner goes keep me moving towards my goals instead of my life continuing to shrink.

Physical - Googling. I had to google everything to figure out the answer each time something new popped up. Mentally - Ruminating - I am definitely an overanalyzer and while it can help me professionally since most of those things have a solution, trying to figure out if there was a new answer for personal things kept me stuck

Googling anything health related. This has helped my health ocd a fair bit.

Asking for reassurance from others that xyz didn’t happen or couldn’t have happened. Stopping this compulsion has been a huge weight off my shoulders. Now my response is, “maybe or maybe not, I don’t need to figure it out this moment”. I may still have anxiety but I do my best to let it be while I do whatever it is I need to do.

Constantly going to the ER!

Hand washing. Even when I have bad days, I don't go to compulsions as much as I used to. ❤️

Googling for every weird sensation or thought I had. Avoiding people and places attached to intrusive thoughts. Isolating and spending hours trying to figure out the source of thoughts and sensations.

Arguing with the thoughts and mental ping pong.

I no longer care if things line up or match.

Googling

Obsessive thinking

Googling and reassurance-seeking.

Avoidance!! I start and complete a task even with a little anxiety.

Rumination 😊

All of them. 😁 (listing them out would take too long since ocd always finds a way to try and introduce a new compulsion in the mix).

Reassurance. It is tricky and sometimes you don’t even know you are doing it.

Ruminating

Checking & rechecking & rechecking ad nauseum. Ocd BOB still says hi (cause god forbid i move on) & I'm like "yeah, yeah, yeah, heard it all before." But oh no, I need to go & check my garage, front door, back door, other back door, toaster, the oven, the fucking toilet, lights, & the puppy gate. The worse one was my parking brake/stick shift & id check it who knows how many times cause if I don't then MAYBE the car will slide down the "hill" (theres no fucking hill) & kill someone. Ocd BOB kindly distracts me each time im checking so i have to keep going back. Only a monster wouldn't go back & check, OCD BOB says. Im really surprised noone videotaped me going back & forth. I may even be a meme & not know it. Ocd BOBs been in time out for months & I give myself 1 check. As I'm walking away ocd Bob's like "hey, hey, HEY, GO CHECK!" I'm like "thanks for the lovely reminder BOB, I'll worry about the people I may have killed later." OCD BOB I'd a big bully.

Mental compulsions have significantly reduced! I have also reduced the amount I google symptoms or things related to OCD which was a big one when I first started my journey as I was searching for reassurance/reasoning.

I canceled an unnecessary doctor’s appointment that I scheduled compulsively!

Rumination for sure.

Reassurance!

Worrying about sickness or my kids becoming sick. Also family and self harm. All of those things don’t even register on the scale for me anymore. That’s all thanks to therapy. Therefore, I think I can deal with checking the stove one in a while 🤣🤣

I’ve stopped googling symptoms and reading about diseases and diagnoses. I cook meat now! I use plastic. I don’t align, straighten, or count. I don’t open every link or notification announcing a sale and then scroll through every item on the site and then purchase things I don’t need or want out of fear of missing something. Therapy has significantly changed my life. I have so much more time. 😆

Reassurance seeking. Awareness of mental compulsions

Rumination, realizing that I actually DONT have to buy into OCD’s sneaky traps

ERT has greatly reduced my tendency to problem solve my religious intrusive thoughts!

Years ago I was able to face the dreaded door handle and reduced how often I opened doors w/my sleeve pulled over my hand

Reassurance seeking!

Well I just started so none yet. I hope to decrease perfectionistic compulsions: for example, being I want to be able to do things without having a meltdown because I'm not able to do it to a ridiculously high standard. And I also hope to decrease checking and adjusting/fixing

Checking google for medical Issues

Reassurance seeking & excess showering! 🫶🏼

Testing to see if my worries are real. Today was the first day!

Not being able to have my hair tied. I was afraid my face was distorted when I wore a pony tail. Now I’m still afraid but it’s less painful and I can do it!!!

Confessing Over sharing Hair pulling

reassurance seeking

I almost have no trouble at all anymore leaving the house without reassuring myself multiple times that everything is turned off. In general, my ocd is so much better in my private live. Where I still struggle a lot is at work, I hope I will get better at it soon

Taking pictures of all my outlets before leaving the house

Reassurance and avoidance, learned how to slowly stop trying to figure out my thoughts and just feel them neutrally

Hello everyone, I am new to this and haven’t received therapy as of today, but I am glad to see that my thoughts are share among so many because for a while I thought I was the only one in the world feeling like this. I hope to received treatment soon so I can benefit and stop feeling and thinking this way.

Looking up relationship articles. Looking for signs that it was or was not the right relationship. Learning how to keep prayer in my life, but not as a compulsion.

Skipping showers

Reduced some perfectionists cleaning

Turning the volume, timer, etc to an odd number. I can sit with odd numbers now! Still working on many other compulsions in my hierarchy though.