Hey y’all! I’ve decided I want to try to start recovering on my own, so I want to stop some of my compulsions. But tbh I can’t really tell which are compulsions or not so I’m gonna list some things and can someone tell me if it’s a compulsion or not so I can stop doing it. - blinking my eyes hard when I have an intrusive thought - immediately thinking of a specific image to replace intrusive image (eg a random actor, or anything tbh) - going to the bathroom or shifting positions to try to get rid of groinal responses - going on this app whenever I feel stressed Are any of these compulsions and should I stop doing them?

ocdjourney

286d ago

A compulsion is something you do in response to an obsession. You do a compulsion to neutralize, get rid of, counteract, or reduce the distress caused by an obsession. So it sounds the the first three are definitely compulsions. The last one depends, are you getting on the app in response to an obsession?

random_person

286d ago

Well it depends. Because sometimes I go on this app to seek reassurance but sometimes I go on it to not feel alone or to get tips and stuff like that. So maybe I should just go on this app for the right reasons