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- 4y
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- 4y
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.
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- 4y
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
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- 4y
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.
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- 4y
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.
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- 24w
back in october i made my first post about my specific type of ocd, how it mixes in with my day to day and how i “deal” with it. i talked about the starting point, how it gradually got worse, and then how it was going just a few months ago. i always think it’s insane how much can change in just the course of a small to a large amount of time. right now, i honestly feel like garbage. to be quite sincere i really want to give up, i’m barely holding on by a thread. and if i cut that thread, i really doubt anyone would care. i’ve never considered myself to be a suicidal person, and i still don’t consider myself that right now. it just gets to a point where it’s just, a lot to deal with. i don’t really enjoy things a lot nowadays. sure i have good days like everyone does, like today, when i was just enjoying my day without worries. but then it all comes crawling back twice as bad the following days. i take online college so i’m usually just stuck at home most of the time. but, when i do decide to actually go out and leave my house, my ocd just explodes because i have this whole routine i need to do or else i feel like i’ll contaminate wherever i end up going. i’m not going to go really deep into my compulsions because it’s hard enough to live with them, much more having to type them all out in detail. but when i go out my compulsions go from wiping down all my stuff i’m going to use after showering, to washing my clothes/cleaning the washer + dryer. i also have separate things (or two of the same thing) i use specifically in my house, and items i use when going out. such as shampoo/body wash, deodorant, lotion, hair curler, etc. as if that’s not draining enough, i also feel the need to fast a couple days prior to any plan i make because i’ve forced myself to believe i need to feel empty in order to be clean. i’m not sure if that’s my past eating disorder talking, or my ocd, but my brain can’t help but think any food in my house is utterly and completely contaminated. i’m so tired of this feeling, feeling like nothing will ever be clean again. feeling like my ocd is trapped in my childhood home. feeling that wave of diseases rushing through my veins the moment i step foot into what’s supposed to be “home”. and i’m so scared of therapy because what if i do get healed, and then everything comes rushing back the second i step into my room. i’m planning on moving somewhere far from my current house in this next coming year, so sometimes i feel like just waiting it out. but it’s insufferable when going to hangout with someone. i miss my friends, my family, and my partner. it’s crazy to me that i’m dealing with all this at the young age of 18 but, i’m sure lots of people have it way worse. i just want to find a way out, any possible way. but i keep pushing myself deeper and deeper that when i finally find a way, it will no longer exist.
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- 22w
How long did it take to make this? And is it actually possible?
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- 22w
People who went from a really bad time with OCD to a better time now. Is it really possible? What was your theme? Did you take medication?
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