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Yes it does get better I promise please don’t give up. Though ocd might have taken up the past 2 years of your life, the future is yours. The best revenge you can get on your ocd is to live the life you’ve always imagined and dreamt of, which is possible. Trust the process and do the recovery work, it might take time but you can do it I promise. I believe in you! Some other resources to check out on YouTube: Ali Greymond, Mark Freeman, Restored Minds. On Instagram: obsessivelyeverafter Hope this helps!!
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You bet it does. I lived a very difficult life from 16 - 28. Then on top of everything else at 25 my OCD wrecked me. After about 5 years of therapy and pushing myself to be kinder to myself I now live a life I couldn’t have ever imagined. Of course I wish I hadn’t missed out on all that time but I’m not going to let it rob me of my hard won tomorrow. Hold strong and never hesitate to seek your community when you struggle
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Don’t judge your future off of those two years. I wasted my entire teen years lol but there’s so much more life to live beyond that so don’t let it hold you back. it will get better if you start stepping up and decide to live life. :) ocd can make it really difficult to actually do this but recovery is very much possible.
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Plenty of people have started with OCD young and they developed well still. Personally i got it for the first time in like 6th grade. Am now 24. It sucks but you’ll ge through it
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with that said if you want to get better I recommend a therapist who specializes in ERP if your insurance covers it. It helps a ton to get a baseline knowledge about recovery
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I can't stop thinking about ending my life. I feel like I'm not even living, I'm just surviving. Everyone is capable of being a person and functioning and I'm just stuck here avoiding everything. My psychiatrist said my ocd is severe and it will all take time and I'll start erp and I'm already on medication but I just feel so depressed and like I won't be able to handle erp and it's already too late for me. I feel inhuman, it's debilitating. My major theme is just fear or contamination, I can't even make myself a meal I can't touch anything in the kitchen. I get stuck in the shower for 2 hours and when I don't shower because I'm depressed I feel like a walking germ. My hands are a mess, my school work is shit, I avoid and avoid and I'm just so tired of "living" like this. My psychiatrist said they don't have any therapists available right now like.... excuse me? What do you mean u don't have any 😭 I honestly don't even know why I'm typing this becuase nothing helps, nothing ever will. I'm so deep into this I can't get out, my room looks like shit, I can't live in this body anymore, I really can't. I let everyone down, I am and will be such a dissapointment. I don't have any dreams or goals or passions I just wasn't made to be here. I don't know how or who to ask for help like there's nothing anyone can do, I'm already on meds. I can't keep being like this, seeing everyone judge me for acting insane.
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Also I read on tik tok or twitter that if u still feel connected to younger people that means you’re not progressing or maturing and that’s bad. I’m 25 and I’m at this odd stage in my life where I’m getting older but still feel like I’m 20-22. I feel like I’m behind people that are my age. I think it’s because I’m been bed rotting with severe depression for the past 4 years… but I’m scared this means I’m becoming a pedo in the future.
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17f Just like the title says. I came to realization that I lost a whole year of life. I remembered my real event in the end of january of 2024. Since then my life has been a living hell. Also kinda made a couple new smaller events through this year. And I know I deserve it cause my event was actually bad. Even people without ocd on reddit agree it was bad. It's still ocd, but I deserve it probably. For this whole year I haven't had a day when I wouldn't think of it. It became my default state to constantly have it on my mind. I walked around, pretended to have fun, talked to people. Most of the time I wasn't really there, I was thinking about my event. My event haunts me when I'm awake, when I'm asleep. I spend this whole year either freaking out, being depressed, thinking on methods to off myself, ruminating, seeking reassurance or trying to distract myself with books, TV shows, social media or daydreaming. Literally barely engaged with reality. So it's so hard to believe a whole year passed... I can barely remember anything that happened during this year. I can't believe this is my life. Probably doesn't really matter cause I don't plan on staying there that long. There is no way I'm going to experience piece with myself. So I will be out in a year or so, since my plan requires some time. Finally will end it all. It just feels very weird. A whole year passed. I was so deep down in my head I didn't even notice. It's scary.
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