I feel a bit anxious to be here, but I want to meet other people who have OCD. It feels really hopeless to me, I don’t feel like I’ll ever beat it. Sometimes I get spurts of hope, and think I should start therapy but then my brain tells me ‘I will forget something important’ and ‘I have to do what I do in order to keep everyone and myself safe’. I don’t know where or how to start, and I don’t know what to do.
It’s scary. It really is! But I promise you. The doubts just ocd. Start therapy! Everyone who has ocd has the doubts they’ll never beat it. Everyone questions whether therapy will help or not! That’s just ocd doing what it does! You’ll learn how to respond to the thoughts. The doubts and the discomfort and you’ll face your fears with guided expert help! You owe it to your future self!
It's terrifying-i can't pretend like it isn't. Therapy is scary, fighting back is scary, learning to be uncomfortable sometimes is scary. But I'll tell you something I haven't heard enough in my life- being brave doesn't mean you weren't scared. It means you were scared and did the right thing anyway. Therapy helps. Goodness does it help. So do therapy scared. Fight back against your OCD scared. Exist scared while you have to because it's the right things and some day- sooner than you think- it's going to stop being scary.
You made it to the platform where literally all of us are struggling with something related to OCD that freaking sucks. We all can relate. Literally all of us. Trust in the therapy-- you will work those muscles and it will get better. It will come in waves for sure, but it is for the better. ✨💖
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