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Due to personality, depression, OCD, and other circumstances I have never even been on a date. I'm just about 36. My goal is to give it a shot.
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36????
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We'll be cheering you on! ๐ฅณ
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@Peridottttt Yup ๐
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@Anonymous Thanks โบ
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@Ben84 Get out there, bud! The world is your oyster!
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@tired โบ
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@NOCD Advocate - Carl Cornett โบ
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Ay man this is your year! Awesome!! I'll be praying for ya โบ๏ธ
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@ButterflyStar โบ
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This is an awesome thread! My goals are: To reread the notes I take in therapy at least once or twice every fortnight, to refresh my memory. To try listening to my intuition to work things out, not the OCD. To learn to FEEL my feelings, instead or suppress or get rid of them with compulsions. โบ๏ธ๐
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My goal is to attend my OCD treatment, to be able to go 1 month without arguing with my boyfriend based off of ROCD-stuff, and be able to have evenings where Im alone but wel because I manage my obsessions and dont engage in compulsions!
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Embrace anxiety and have a mental state of mind that says I'm already recovered my body is just acting up.
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Gonna go a little outside the parameters here, but Iโd say in advocacy my goal is to get know more advocates. Or, assuming weโre able to meet in person or have events this year, Iโd like to attend a conference of some sort. Other than that, I want to keep my meditation practice up next year and do it for at least 60%-70% of the the days available in the year. Iโd love 100%, but I know thereโs a chance I wonโt pull that off, haha.
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after hocd popped into my little head, my world kind of crashed so i hope that 2021 will treat me with kindness and just love really<3 one of my many goals is to recover from my ed that i developed, along with maybe (just maybe) get a bf haha:) my ocd goals is to just give a dgaf attitude to the thoughts so i can go to university without any worries at all!!
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My goal is to not be held back by my ocd and be able to live my life again :)
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My goal is to be more mindful about thinking before acting. I'd be much better about resisting compulsions if I took a moment to sit with the thought before jumping into ways to get rid of it.
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One day....one whole day my goal is to be really really really really happy and the crazy thoughts are chasing up me, and thatโs when they get to me when I go to sleep. One day one whole day I just wanna be happy
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I love this! These are all amazing goals!! We can do this ๐ช Keep those goals coming!! Excited to read them all ๐
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My goals are to: work through my compulsions to avoid cleaning and tidying my space so that I can feel about about my home (first time living alone,) to feel safe on my relationships, and if I do decide to exit- knowing itโs due to my own accord and not lying ocd thoughts, to feel empowered in making big life decisions without immense fear and overwhelm, and to start making money in my entrepreneurial venture free of compulsions that sabotage $ making opportunities!
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My goal is to: regain touch with my sense of self, learn how to be more mindful and have more alone time and learn how to be comfortable being on my own, learn to recognize symptoms of OCD and when it will strike, avoid self-destructive behaviors and overall achieve self love and understand that I deserve the life I want ๐
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My goal is to start and complete my ERP treatment, follow through on my referral to a psychiatrist, and get my life back. I also want to start getting more engaged in the community and be more open. I donโt want to feel alone anymore.
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this is a really good goal - Iโll said the same thing today to myself, after I felt like Iโm starting compulsions again in my head. Iโll try to do the same as you.
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My goal is to prevent acting upon my compulsions as much as I can, because I feel like the compulsions are what are really holding me back from my goals and values. The obsessions are distressing, but I will remind myself that I can handle the discomfort and tolerate uncertainty and the possibility of my fears coming true.
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Continue the adventure I've been on this year and try to resolve the issues that sent me on it in the first place, hopefully without a pandemic.
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I think my ocd started with me being oversensitive like the fear and thoughts a lot of them have started with that I really hope I have control on emotions and triumph over ocd!!!
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Earlier today I did some pretty high-level contamination exposure, inspired by my therapist, and now I'm listening to a triggering song on repeat โ the very song that kicked off my first serious bout of OCD in high school. There is a part of my brain that is telling me I can't handle the song and that I should find a compulsion to do, but my goal is to have it in the background while I go about my self-care tasks. I'm already starting to get used to it ๐ช How are y'all challenging your OCD today?
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I still do not have an OFFICIAL diagnosis (I dont have the means to do so) but given my symptoms, past and present in my life hugely suggest OCD is what I am dealing with. I cannot be 100 percent certain but after searching for answers and researching for a long time now, I am fairly certain and confident this is what I am struggling with. Given this step forward, I am making more effort into giving up compulsions. at the current moment I believe to be dealing with ROCD, as I have been having several intrusive thoughts that conflict with my relationship. For starters, recently over the past month or 2, I have been struggling with intrusive thoughts like not being over my ex, being attracted to someone else, losing feelings for my partner and not being in love, etc. I can consciously identify that I dont believe these thoughts to be true but it causes me so much distress and anxiety. It gets extremely unbearable some days, and I have leaned into 2 main compulsions. I have relied on thought checking and googling as my source of relief. At first the googling was genuinely to start finding answers; hence why I have made some of the discoveries I have about OCD including this site. But it developed into every time I was anxious, I would whip my phone out and start googling strictly to find an answer that would reassure me or calm me down. As for thought checking, it acted as a way to reaffirm my love for my girlfriend in my head when I have had the thoughts that collide with my relationship and how I feel about my girlfriend. It worked at first but developed into a compulsion where every time a bad thought got me worked up id either do my normal googling or Id think about that in my head to calm myself down. Over time these compulsions have gotten less and less affective and now when I do them it only gets me more anxious and desperate for reassurance (strengthening the cycle or whatever it is lol). I did some more research and finally have accepted the very real fact that I am going to have to sit in heavy anxiety and not give into compulsions for a while in order to treat this. I have to sit in the thoughts that make me feel all this hightened anxiety and distress without giving into compulsion. to be honest I am scared, the thoughts are more rampant than ever, but I am ready to commit to this. I dont think I am gonna be able to go cold turkey on my compulsions so I am ready for the reality I might relapse on the compulsions sometimes, But am gonna keep going until I can break these shackles OCD has on my life right now. I wanna ask, what is everyones methods they use to avoid giving into compulsion when the thoughts get loud? any advice is welcome :)
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