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Sometimes the feelings and the thoughts will make you think you’ve found “certain” proof of your fears - but it’s ocd playing tricks and trying to latch on anyway it can- as painful and hard it is you have to keep not doing the compulsions
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That’s totally normal you just have to sit with the anxiety and overtime you’ll become less anxious over the thoughts. I’m still recovering as well but I have made some improvement since I started.
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I just say maybe, maybe not it works better for me
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Yeah definitely I was like that when I started recovery work five months ago. But now that I’m more relaxed when feeling/thinking the thoughts I start to make up scenarios why they’re true. My therapist overtime told me to Do it as I got used to it
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ERP is crazy hard. But affirming the OCD thought is true is a compulsion. Doing any type of compulsion during or after an exposure will render it ineffective. Just sit with your anxiety and let your anxiety do its thing. It will spike, peak, and then decline. You may have to do the exposure more than once. I usually have to do mine 3 or 4 times in a row before my anxiety gets down low enough.
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@sophiesim22 That’s what I’ve been told, but of course you do this in a Sarcastic way. It shows the thoughts you don’t fear them.
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A good way to respond to the thoughts no matter what they are, is to say things like - “ I choose not to figure that out” or “ I’m not going to answer that” that’s what my therapist has told me. It works because you end up not doing the compulsions It doesn’t matter if the ocd makes you think you have worked it all out or found prooof if you’re fears, keep using responses like this and not doing the compulsions is the way forward
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Super helpful advice
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should i be doing erp instead of repeating again and again "none of that shits real. none of that shits real. none of that shits real" ? i can’t tell if it makes it better or not
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I find while doing exposures, rarely does my anxiety lessen. It usually amps up and stays that way for the remainder of the day. I could be having a fairly decent day, but dutifully do my exposures and then the rest of my day is anxiety filled. I guess that’s just how it is now? Also, I’m wondering if my therapist even believes I have OCD. I totally understand my therapist cannot provide reassurance. But it’s to the point it seems my therapist acts like I actually did the thing I fear. I feel so isolated.
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I have really bed harming intrusive thoughts and sometimes feels like it’s feeling! The thoughts happening every day and the hardest part is that I’m testing my self in head all the time if that’s what I am or want!!! Also, so many times feels like I’m been tricking myself and doctor or people and maybe I don’t have OCD, just that maybe it’s me really!!!! How can I know who I am really 🥹???!!??
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