Seri11
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Madison the ERP NinjaMadison the ...
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No, actually, you CAN be “cured”. Your genetic predisposition to anxiety won’t go away, but if you don’t do compulsions, OCD will die. If you do compulsions, OCD will grow. Read what Dr. Michael J Greenburg has to say about OCD being cured. He believes you can become entirely better.
Dre83Dre83
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But these thoughts don’t disappear because everyone has them even none ocd people do
Dre83Dre83
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@Dre83 Non* ocd
Madison the ERP NinjaMadison the ...
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It doesn’t mean you don’t have the occasional distressing thought—EVERYONE has those—it just means that you move right past them. That’s what it means to not have OCD.
Dre83Dre83
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Ah ok thanks for the clarity
Dre83Dre83
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They can only be minimized and managed through therapy, medication or both
Seri11Seri11
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Does that mean my therapist is telling me I can be cured permanently just to reassure me?
Dre83Dre83
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@Seri11 Yeah sounds like it. Not sure where she is getting that from cause from everything I’ve read and from my therapist they say there is no cure yet! We can still hope for a break through from the smart people of the world.
JustmesadlyJustmesadly
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@Seri11 That’s so bad that your therapist is telling you that. There’s no cure to OCD so you could do therapy and go into remission for 5 years and it come back.
Take it easy lolTake it easy...
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My therapist said that nobody could get rid of ocd totally, but there was nothing to worry about. Almost everyone has kind of ocd, I mean, it's totally normal to check doors, windows etc. but if you do that so many times you should get help. You can minimize it, which means that you almost won't have ocd and it minimizing doesn't mean that you'll be still annoyed and have lots of things to check.
Take it easy lolTake it easy...
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Also, everybody says that it can start again; it happens when you are very tired and very stressed, but it doesn't mean that it will start and will be as hard as from the beginning.. Also I don't mean that you must be afraid not to be stressed. everybody has stressful life occasionally, but if you are often like this, it's likely to start checking or something like that slightly, but it's not a problem at all because you can control your thoughts and get rid of it.
Seri11Seri11
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Thank you guys❤
Dre83Dre83
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You’re welcome ☺️
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