Does anyone else have days where the OCD just keeps coming? You get through one bout of it, and then it hits you with another. And then you get through that and it hits you again. It feels like it’s trying to convince me to do the awful things and it scares me even more. The fact it keeps attacking. I guess I know that it’s the tactic but it feels like it’s not OCD.
It's a challenge because we have to learn to retrain our own brain... 🤔 Difficult, but possible
Are you still struggling as badly?
@noone9 Yes! But now I’m just living with it and trying as hard as I can not to fight with it because I know it just makes it stronger.
@Catlove9 This time of year seems to make it worse, not much sunshine, cold, damp, dark....
@noone9 Yah. It’s not a fun time. And the pressure of the holidays.
@Catlove9 Yes that too. Pressure, meeting expectations, missing the simplicity of the past... 😕
@noone9 OCD just keeps trying to come in differently. Each time it’s scaring me like it’s the first time.
@Catlove9 It's the same, just an annoying, unwanted temporary thought/urge.
@Catlove9 And listen to me, my real event OCD is on overdrive the past few days... So yeah, I'm an expert. Lol
@noone9 How are you doing?
@Catlove9 I'm doing ok, I think. Seems like the holidays must've been triggering. Thanks for asking! 🙂 How are you?
@noone9 Eh. Im hanging in there. Harm OCD is trying to come at me in all different ways.
@Catlove9 In times when it eased up, can you identify anything that may have helped? Or can you identify triggers that cause it to increase?
@noone9 No 😔. I wish I could. I’ve tried but it seems random.
@Catlove9 Towards random people as well, or same people/person? How's work and your new position been the past few months?
@noone9 Yah. It’s all random. All over the place. It’s been good! Of course my OCD attacks that as well and makes me worried I’ll always lose my job. I also finally told that one horrible friend who knows all my OCD false memories to leave me alone, so I’m also worried about that. Just the usual fun! How about you? How is your job and health?
@Catlove9 Well telling that person to leave you alone was the right thing to do, hopefully you can leave it pass. My job is going well, I switched to day shift at the start of the new year so I feel like I have a normal schedule again, and I'm in a brand new lab where everything is new. The company spent 7 million dollars on the new lab. Lol. It's a good company. Health is about the same. I'm working with a doc who is comfortable monitoring the cancer for a while, all lab work showed it's a slow moving cancer. I'm in good spirits all in all with it. Actually life is not too bad. I feel like I'm away from toxic people and situations finally and hopefully healing in the mental health category. Just not enjoying winter, we got well over 12 inches of snow and the cold is yucky! Did the storm hit you bad?
@noone9 I’m glad to hear everything is going well! We got around 8-10 inches. I wish we could have had more! I love snow. I’m going to London for work. I fly out Saturday. Of course my OCD is going crazy. I’m scared of the plane crashing 🙄
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