Love you guys. All I gotta say is healing is NOT linear. So I may have achieved some level according to the DOCS tests but what I have learned is how to live and manage the disorder. If anyone ever needs any advice I am here to help:) Finding peace is identifying your compulsions and cutting them out of your life as best as you can🩷
Great job being one step ahead you’ve been very helpful with a lot of posts thank you
Thank you. This was a thoughtful and helpful response. I will work on processing and following it.
Thank you for saying this, healing isn't linear at all and it's a good reminder
Congrats dude!!
congrats! I'm glad you've improved some!
Hi so I have been feeling flat lately. I can’t seem to find much excitement in things. It is causing me to want to try to figure out how to fix it. I am probably focusing on it more because I am home today and bored. I am trying to figure out if it’s the ocd or depression- which is also bugging me. Any thoughts or tips?
@TanyaC Get busy living:)
@slippery_salad Ok I am getting busier as I added a 2 nd part time job lol
Thank you for this. It’s my first day here and im hopeful and then I spiraled in the afternoon after a great session connecting with my therapist. I don’t even know how to feel. I’m so tired and this helped me. We are going to have ups and downs
@Icandothis100 Lot more downs then ups but what matters is that you act in the valleys like you do on the mountain tops. Maintain your composure and act happy.. until you are happy:)
Slippery Salad, Did you ever have an obsession that required you need some knowledge to function but you were for whatever reason unable to get it; the compulsion would to continuously search and if found, read it over and over again - get the reassurance for a short period? Thus leaving you confused because you still have the obsession and even if you did the compulsion it wasn't enough - just cant get there; cant process the information you are reading because of its importance, etc. Not doing the compulsion is hard when left confused like I don't have fluid thoughts. I put the obsession to the side but its only a temporary measure. Your friend, Mike
@Mike6060 Be more specific. Dont beat around the bush. I promise you Ive probably had the same obsession. At least tell me the theme
Sure. I find my sense of confidence and security with certain knowledge. I started doubting knowledge I thought I had because I don't remember the source of where I got the information to rely on it anymore and have been obsessing over it. I'm overwhelmed because I don't know how to let it go and when I do what perhaps is the compulsion of trying to search the information I do it over and over again to no avail. I cant get the assurance from reading it. Add the anxiety and can't concentrate reading it comfortably. Trying to be content without this information but it's difficult and hard to let go of when it feels pertinent.
@Mike6060 Its definitely a pattern of OCD but you wont like my answer… you have to defiantly live despite not knowing all the answers. Your mind enjoys being in certainty and craves it when it doesnt. Almost like crack or sugar or weed, when youre on it, it feels amazing, but when youre starved of it, its extremely painful and most times, life altering. Being okay with not knowing is the key here. Maybe instead of trying to contain old information, redirect your attention to new information:) learn new things
Congrats, I’m so proud of you!!
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