Just when you think your over it

Ocd is clever. It’s clever at making you feel like if you worked this one thing out everything will be fine and great and as it was… what a lie. Just when you think you’ve solved one thing it’s straight onto the next , just when you think you’ve reached certainty it suddenly doesn’t matter anymore as something more urgent and important has come up… Ill always be a terrible person in my ocd mind. I thought I was over this issue but no…my mind has created another one, a more urgent and serious one. When will this end.

Username: ScuderiaAlphaScuderiaAlpha

Date posted: 4w ago

Nobody with OCD has ever done enough compulsions to the point where OCD goes “you know what? Well done you figured it out and you’re certain and I’ll go away now forever”. You can never satisfy OCD with enough compulsions EVER. We all wish it worked that way but what happens is that OCD comes up with more obsessions that are often worse and more intense (as you described) and demands more and more compulsions. So the way to beat it is to starve it. Without compulsions, OCDs got nothing and can’t survive. But the more you feed it, the worse it will get. The more you try and reach certainty about whatever is in your head, the worse it will get. As you say, this will end when you stop playing ball with OCDs ridiculous questions and stop doing those compulsions. It’s not easy and requires practice and work but it’s totally possible. :)

Username: Kayla12Kayla12

Date posted: 4w ago

Thank you for sharing! Love this!

Username: June123June123

Date posted: 4w ago

You’re not alone! I’m feeling the same way.

Username: Kayla12Kayla12

Date posted: 4w ago

Thanks for sharing!! I was gonna do another compulsion but when I read your message, the awareness came to my mind to not give in. Let's fight this insidious ocd together!

Username: hopefulxmesshopefulxmess

Date posted: 4w ago

In the same boat😪

Username: JellyBeansssJellyBeansss

Date posted: 4w ago

What I call it is a spiral. This is what happened to me spiralling more and more until I was at crisis. It’s unhealthy and what’s more it’s not changing anything. I used to think and laugh at my own thoughts when I was beginning to come out of the spiral. My brain was saying anything to get me to spiral more. It was funny because the stuff they were saying was just god damn lies. What I am trying to say the more you think about something does not mean it will change anything. Thoughts are not truths. There’s no point in reasoning with it.

Username: hanysm@gmail.comhanysm@gmail...

Date posted: 4w ago

Certainity is illusion. Read this https://app.treatmyocd.com/community/posts/2030461

Username: AdamH

Date posted: 5y ago

This horrible disorder never ends if you keep fighting, it destroys you mentally and physically, till there's nothing left but obsessions and intrusive thoughts. No sleep, no appetite, no will to live. Controlling your life till life isn't worth it anymore. I've been suffering with OCD (mainly Pure O) for many years now and it is a giant monster always finding cracks to renew and feeds on the slightest doubt, it's a never ending rabbit hole of darkness, if you fight it. There is no answer nor reassurance nor pills to stop the horrible doubts and fears, you can't out think it or try to stop thinking it, just try your best to realise that it is nothing to do with you as a person, you are completely FREE from the horrible thoughts and urges your mind sends you, it's the mind you must seperate the two. Acceptance of uncertainty, trusting in life and realising that thoughts can't be stopped nor controlled nor deleted nor escaped is the way to overcome.

Username: Liverpool1234

Date posted: 3y ago

Does anyone ever get over an ocd thought, then weeks later boom it comes back and you spend the next However long it takes getting over it again and start thinking what if something really did happen. Iv spent the last few months going back over this thought and keep thinking it’s real!

Username: Fear and Hope 🌼

Date posted: 2y ago

Anyone relate??

It’s so crazy how even though you have been through this a million times, when a new thought pops up or an old obsession resurfaces, it feels impossible to get through. You know the tools and you recognize the feelings, and yet somehow “this one” is different. It’s more serious, more disturbing, it’s a sign of your true desires, etc, etc. Taking the risk of uncertainty is not worth it “this time”because the consequences are too severe. Every time you start to make progress on an obsession or even just part of an obsession, you think you are finally getting the hang of it…and then ocd hits you back and it’s like all the confidence and progress you were starting to feel like you were developing gets blown away and in that moment you are back at the beginning. Ocd is truly diabolical and so smart. It causes so much suffering. I am so tired of making progress or even just maintaining my current obsessions just to get smacked in the face with something “different” and somehow “worse”. It is exhausting. One thing I never considered I would need to fight ocd and use erp was stamina. I really hope everyone out there struggling with ocd is doing ok. If you have ever felt like this, just know that I am in that same place.

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