What helps you with ocd?

hi! i have a similar experience as you. the only thing that truly helps my compulsive thoughts is pushing through and just let the thoughts be. i know it’s easier said than done trust me but the more we give into ocd, the louder ocd gets. 💗my therapist had me name mine and when the thoughts get too loud, i literally tell Ulga (my ocd) to shut up and go back to her corner.

I too can relate to your post. I miss those what seemed to be carefree weightless times. However now we have a reason to be happy. We have a diagnosis . It was even scarier before not knowing what the heck was wrong with me. Its a hard pill to swallow knowing that part of your brain is just making up lies to scare you. That part of my brain is not me . It is looking for problems in anything it can find. Its a survival instinct. Our brains are looking for something to protect it from. To the point of being a disorder. I always said how hard it is to fix my brain with a broken brain. ..... I comes down to surrendering. Surrendering to a program that people much smarter than me have designed. One thing and a more important thing is surrendering to your higher power. My life had become unmanageable. My Best thinking brought me here ! For me I choose every day to surrender to God. For me this HAS NOT come easy. Every day it a fight . Fighting my brain who thinks it knows better and can somehow controll things. I have to really get broken down by ocd to finally surrender every day. Its weird. As soon as I start feeling better...... bam ocd strikes. A punch in the gut. Robbing me of my feeling of security. Certainty that I will be okay. Its like I have this false idea that I am controlling things. Its an illusion of control. God controls everything. I am not a person who was raised in religion. I dont even have a religion I call mine... but I am pretty sure this world and universe was not created by a man. So there is a higher power. When thinking gets too bad. Surrendering is my help. I surrender to the fact that my brain doesn't like being told it could be wrong ! I have to renew my mind daily and tell myself " Eric, you have a serious brain disorder . " You dont want to believe it but it is true. Try just enjoying today . Just today. Maybe just the next 5 minutes. I hope this helps you .

Please call NOCD. Help and healing are real!! I wish I could have had the tools at 22💝

My relationship with God, definitely 🙌🏻 ❤️

My grandma used to remind me, "This too shall pass." It sounds like an empty platitude, but for us that's what it's all about. Getting past what is currently causing us anxiety. If it were a physical illness we could medicate it and it would go away in a short time, but when it's in our head we have to practice fighting the compulsion and ride it out.

Therapy and working a lot helps me. Having too much down time allows my brain to spiral so I stay busy with art/work. Meeting people with ocd in real life helps as well

Little reductions go a long way. I can try to make a long list of things that help later, but little reductions in compulsions really add up and weaken the power of OCD at its core, and it takes a while to go, but once it starts to go, it goes pretty quickly.

I think a roco brcelelet could help with my thoughts or make it worse its just what it means to me

Medication helps me. You may not be on the right Medication or dose. Prozac worked for several years and then it stopped working. Over the past year I was trying a lot of different medicines. Right now I'm taking 100mg Sertraline and 100 mg Desvenlafaxine which seems to be working. I'm also doing ERP therapy