For those of you that have successfully managed your symptoms, what helped motivation-wise? Did meditation, reading, etc help you find the courage to stand up to OCD? I feel like I’m lacking the mental/spiritual/psychological energy to *really* do the work, and it’s so discouraging.

Hi, for me it helped to do some mindfulness every day when I was still in therapy. I let the obsession come in my head and the challenge was to do nothing with it for minutes. Just accept there are here and don't think anything of it. Also when an obsession comes up or you want to do a compulsion don't go with it. It's seems really hard but you have to be very strong. I thought I couldn't do it but I could,so can you. Sometimes it will be easier than other times but you first have to try it. You can do it. I believe in you

I think for me it was my beloved ones. People who, whitout knowing what I was going through pushed me and were there for me. It wasn't much of a choice actually. But then it hit me. I saw my days going to waste. I was just there sitting, panicking and crying every day. And even though I have learned to accept my feelings rather than trying to change them, I have also realized that LIVING is worth whatever risk ocd tries to threaten me with

For me, building on and recording my successes and brave moments empowers me. If I remind myself of times the work has paid off, I'm more likely to put in the effort again. Also, challenging all-or-nothing thinking. My "best" isn't always ? percent and that is ok.