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YESS!! good for u!! dont let it tell you who you are, only u get to do that. :)
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I hear you and understand where you coming from. Ocd is a sneaky punk. What made this ocd tough was the groinal responses they really are like the best weapon ocd has. It can really mess with you. The body feels one way but the mind isn't agreeing with the body if that makes sense. Then the mind doubts if your right it's just a big circle game lol. I laugh because I can literally say I beat ocd today I won.
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I started experiencing symptoms long before I knew it was OCD. It was h o r r i b l e. One day I was sitting in my room doing compulsions for an hour and a half until 2am and I couldnât get it âright.â This night was a huge turning point because 1) I refused to do them and learned that I actually donât HAVE to do them (I didnât think I had a choice in this bc all I knew was my body was telling me I had to) and 2) It pushed me to look up what was happening and I realized I had OCD and that so many other people are experiencing what I am
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Every day living is a win against OCD! Donât let up, itâs gonna hurt like hell, but weâll come out of this stronger than ever! Practice your uncertainty, welcome those nasty thoughts, no matter how horrible or taboo, look at them straight up and laugh! This is not our reality, we choose our own paths! Life was never meant to be serious! Thereâs no such thing as a serious sunrise, serious tree, or serious bird! Laugh and love, learn to forgive yourself, itâs beautiful once you come out on the other side for once!
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I am FINALLY starting to (somewhat) recover from this last existential spiral, which admittedly, was probably the cruelest my OCD has ever been to me. Only thanks to you all. You were all able to provide me with kindness, understanding and support⌠without the kind of reassurance that feeds OCD, of course. When I downloaded this app, I was genuinely terrified. I was so scared that I was permanently doomed to the endless whirlpool that is the thoughts produced by my own brain and that life as I knew it was over, that I would never be happy again. For anyone who might be feeling that way right now, your OCD is LYING to you! Whatever you may be going through, it CAN get better. As hard as it may be right now, HAVE FAITH! Get up and do that thing you want to do in spite of the fear and discomfort. Take the fear with you like a whiny, unwilling toddler and do it anyway. Watch the movie, read the book, order that takeout youâve been craving, bake the cake, wash the dishes⌠Please do it anyway! It will be hard at first, I wonât lie. But the OCD part of your brain, like a toxic partner, WANTS to win. It wants you to give up on those things that you love, all those things that make you happy so that thereâs no space for anything but itself. Donât let it win. The more you push yourself, the more you rewire your brain to realize that as much as it may feel like, the obsession doesnât matter! Thanks to you all, even without therapy (YET - Iâm starting that journey on Tuesday because thereâs still a lot to unpack, and I know that OCD wonât just magically go away), I was able to get a basic understanding of ERP and learning to sit with discomfort and how to live life in spite of it, rather than letting it take over my very being. So for that, I thank this community. I think I would be in a very different place right now if it werenât for the people Iâve met here who truly understood my experiences. I hope you have a wonderful day. Please donât give up. You deserve to be happy, no matter what your brain is telling you â¤ď¸
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Iâm sure itâs been a rough few days for everyone, maybe even weeks or months. Hell, this last YEAR has been up and down for me! But I wanted to take this moment to congratulate everyone for coming this far. Itâs no small feat! OCD is a killer, and itâs good at its job! The fact that all of you are still here fighting is a testament to how strong you are! We may not have the answers or explanation to everything, and thatâs okay. We have to stay in the present, not the past or the future. Remember to practice being uncertain! Itâs hard to remember the good days weâve had despite all these horrible ones! Thereâs no scar to show for happiness, but weâve got plenty to show for misery and pain. Keep hanging on, youâve got this!
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