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- bananaboat
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- 3y ago
I personally believe it’s able to be suppressed to a negligible level. To assume it can be completely eradicated from the body via behavioral treatment alone seems a bit far fetched. There are physiological aspects to OCD. For instance, the immune system contributes to OCD. Don’t believe me? Look up PANDAS and Immune-mediated OCD. I don’t claim to be a psychological professional by any means. Just someone who has ran the totem pole with OCD for years.
I always wonder if I had PANDAS because I got OCD at age 12 after strep infection and it was very sudden and wayy out of control. But nobody really knew about PANDAS in 2004 so undiagnosed
Interesting! I don't believe I am cured by any means. I feel like OCD is a cycle itself besides the obsessions-compulsions-relief cycle. I had just over a year of suffering so bad that I was ill and shaky all the time. Then I discovered OCD was the cause and am doing my best to keep on top of all the ways to beat it. It wasn't as bad as the whole year, but was still as frequent, then I had two whole months of no thoughts, just occasional weekly anxiety of 'somethings not right. Then I had an argument a couple days ago and then suddenly the thoughts and anxiety were back, just as strong at first until I remembered my steps to cope with it. I'm still in that episode (hopefully coming out of it now). This experience has made me believe that we can reduce it to almost non-existent but there will always be a trigger that causes it to flare up once in a while. The hard part of that is it can feel so disappointing/frustrating and more doubtful when it flares up after a really long time of being ok. Life is unpredictable and full of twists and turns and uncertainty that we don't see new triggers coming so we will need to do ERP for those new triggers. But on the whole it can become more manageable where we can even get breaks from it. Chrissie Hodges on YouTube touches on this and she's been suffering for years (around 28 years I think 🤔) and she said she has a normal life and it comes back sometimes.
If you have a mindset that you will be cured, you will be setting yourself up for a nasty relapse. It is a disorder that needs to be managed, and of course sometimes will be better than others.
Does anyone ever think about how long will it take your ocd symptoms to go away. Like just to live one day like someone without ocd? I really want my journey to come to an end and I want to get on with my life. ? Anyone feel me?
Anybody have nice recovery stories? Personally I don’t believe the whole “OCD is something you manage, not cure” thing as I think it’s just the medicinal companies looking to have you popping pills your entire life. Anyways, I KNOW that recovery is possible, and I know that it’s very inspiring and motivating to hear from people that has been in OCD hell that got out on the other side. So please, if you have any stories, share! I can give you a little story; my mom got herself some bad Harm OCD when she got her first child, my big sister, and intense amounts of anxiety from the OCD and agoraphobia too. In the last 20 years, she’s had two panic attacks. She’s over it! She’s out and about and haven’t known intrusive thoughts for ages
I think it would be awesome if we had some people who overcame certain types of OCD (HOCD, ROCD, POCD, Harm OCD) post on here what they did or how they got through them so others can see that there is hope and what the processes are to overcome these. Even if it’s those amongst our community right now.
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