Can anybody share their success story for overcoming their OCD? Not asking for reassurance, but just looking for some positive recovery stories to instill hope!

I keep getting better and I notice that the biggest thing is how I react to my thoughts. Always choose to say I don’t care or who knows when a thought pops in. Let your mind do what it wants and just watch it without judgement. Understand that the human brain comes up with 50,000 thoughts a day and literally none of them matter. I don’t even remember any of my thoughts yesterday, except that there was some to do with my theme. I definitely haven’t overcome it yet, but I’ve been disregarding my thoughts and sitting with my anxiety. I do some exposures but mostly I use my thoughts as exposures and I don’t react to them with mental compulsions. It really does take a lot of strength, but we all already have that strength in us. I have my ups and downs, but I can say that lately I’ve had more ups. But it’s okay if i get down again, because I know i will be okay. Accept everything that happens in your life, all of it, even things not related to OCD. Accept that you have OCD/anxiety, accept that you get thoughts you don’t like, accept that you have to change the way you react to them, accept the uncertainty of the future, accept yourself. Look at OCD as a separate thing to you. You are you, and then OCD is OCD. It is with you in your mind, but it’s not you and it’s not something you have to pay attention too. Sometimes I talk to OCD as a separate person almost. It like puts me back on top and kind puts OCD in its place. God has helped me so much too, but I know some don’t believe in God so I’m not saying you have to in order to get better. You can get better at any time. Something that has helped me is believing in miracles. What if we all just woke up tomorrow and we were completely cured? That’s a better what if than what if we’re like this forever right? People say it’s chronic and you will never fully recover, but what I say to that is people have fully recovered and they are out there. Ali Greymond on YouTube is a great help, too. Where science ends, God begins. Trust in him, trust in yourself. And really just believe that you can do it, because you definitely can. Sorry this was so long, I had a lot to say!

Wow! I’m commenting so I can come back to the previous answer. Very inspiring!

I made a separate post about this but I’ll say it here too. Watching movies or TV shows that have to do with what you’re afraid of helps so much! I watched End of the F***king World (a TV show about a boy who thinks he’s a psychopath and decides to try and kill a girl) and it helped my Harm OCD so much! I had no symptoms at all for over a month (also I found a great new show lol)!

Very inspiring story thank you

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I am not over ocd alrealdy but i hope that one day i will. I just want to share some insights moments that i have, that makes me feel better for some time. And that happens when i dont care of my ocd, and choose to live my life. When i stop focusing on the thoughts