Weekly Wins

I haven’t given in to my compulsions since Monday!!!!

Did a highway driving ERP!

Stop saying yes when I really mean no!

i have started picturing myself in a big puffy jacket. and all of my horrid thoughts are sharp and coming at me, but for some reason, can’t penetrate the jacket. they just bounce off it’s helping me stay resilient.

Went to a volleyball game and successfully used ERP 🏐

I stop doing my rituals 🙏🏻 I know I can

Was able to practice ERP with my therapist and learn new skills to practice on my own!

Played tennis, did 2 event exposures and am on day 17 without taking a clonazapam

my relationship with God has been growing and doing exposures everyday

My skin picking is way down! Very few active scabs

For the first time in over a week, I gave in to almost no compulsions. I have been really struggling with them lately, and I am SO proud of myself for barely engaging in them yesterday. We can do this! We will keep healing!

Had my first two therapy sessions !

I just compulsed right now :( but I won’t do it again all weekend!

I began writing an essay for school which I was overthinking with my perfectionism ocd . Now I am on my second one and soon will be done with my application🌼💜

Not putting pressure on myself and allowing myself to rest.

My husband died in February and it’s just me and the dog. My ratty old living room furniture (beige and gray) was keeping me down. I’m waiting for my new furniture right now, Athens blue they call the sofa and recliner, got a new throw rug in a bohemian colorful floral and a purple patchwork side chair with a purple footstool. My win this week was deep cleaning the living room and getting rid of clutter. My hoarding and ordering compulsions couldn’t compete.

Going to football game tomorrow

I have made extraordinary progress over the last month or so. OCD still creeps in, but I’m doing great! Very proud of myself and learning more every day. I recognize now that any thoughts involving ocd or even obsessive thoughts on progress are compulsions. I did not realize that before.

Celebrating every hard thought I had this week and made it through when it felt unbearable at times mentally. Shrugging my shoulders at my thoughts like my therapist recommended!

i resisted checking for 10 minutes while driving Rowan 🐈‍⬛ to the vet

I am struggling with constant thoughts about health anxiety any helpful hints

I did my best resisting my mental compulsions 🩷

Everyday I wore shoes that are contaminated

Did my exposures all week without trying to find meaning in my feelings and my emotions!

I restarted therapy with NOCD this week, after experiencing a large OCD flareup. Proud of myself for advocating for my needs, and putting myself first! ☺️

Turned my ocd into a joke and said, sure, you can become real but I also have a life to live so let me focus on that. I no longer run from life or hide. I stopped victimising myself and realised i’m only human. I stopped guilt tripping myself for having a condition. I started viewing myself as a person who tries ridiculously hard and has battled some hard fights. I have worked on inner peace despite everything and uncertainty is absolutely ok, I can live like that.

i’m struggling this week, but i made it through work. 🥺🙏🏼

I did a practice erp session to simulate staring at people in my peripheral vision. It helped!

Did intense ERP to remove two sources of intense compulsions.

Allowing myself to be proud of myself for doing a good job.

I got some serious help for my ocd and panic attacks. Still physically having anxiety symptoms but im learning to move past my intrusive thoughts

I did my Response Prevention 4 days this week! I felt anxious doing it, but I resisted my compulsion while doing the response prevention and my distress level was further down than what I thought it would have been.

day 5 of intermittent fasting!

I’ve finally felt like I can put ROCD in the back seat and live my life even if I’m not fully certain

Completing a goal that I thought I couldn’t never achieve because of unmanaged OCD!

sat through the worst anxiety and refused to go to the hospital like my health ocd causes me to do

Last night after my therapy appointment I was still a little down so I shifted to working out and it worked. And now I’m about to do it again and I’m eating healthy lost 3 pounds in five days.

I managed a real life unplanned exposure that would have sent me into a spiral 6 months ago 🫶🏻

I was able to quickly decide what to get at the store without second guessing/ruminating or checking what to pick

Handled several moments of uncertainty this week without resorting to my usual compulsion spiral. Far from perfect but so much better than last week.

Challenged a bunch of my ocds like health anxiety, used words like slay and also used the skeleton emoji and sent reels with topics that I dont like.. basically going against my compulsions and its working so well.. consistency is key!

I did some homework

I spent a whole evening not doing my checking compulsions. I failed today though and gave in but I'm going to keep at it and try harder.

Reminding myself “fear doesn’t get to run the show”

I successfully did NOT give in to the urge to try to clarify my intentions with a co-worker yesterday! (I live in constant fear of offending people, and second-guess everything I say, then usually dig my hole deeper by giving unnecessary apologies and clarifications).

I made it out today and had a great time with my friend 😌 Stay well everyone ☺️

Reading scripture again after it used to send me into awful, scary spirals before ERP and Zoloft. Religious scrupulosity has been the biggest challenge I have overcome.

Instead of quadruple checking my work to make sure I didn't forget something, I only triple checked! Sometimes I even only double checked :D