Just trying to survive
- Date posted
- 3y
Lms526Lms526
- Date posted
- 3y
OCD is caused by a malfunction in your brain. Unfortunately, its not a part you can control and its not the logical part of your brain.
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 3y
Ali greymond helps.. you have to do erp so vigorously.. after a while logic will return but you have to do erp for a while without no logic on your side. That will come as a gift after erp.
jfount11117jfount11117
- Date posted
- 3y
That my friend is one of the most real and true statements I have read on this forum! You can’t argue with OCD, you can’t teach it logic, no matter what you do. Is it me or do you find that it’s like you have to trust your pre OCD self all the while your feelings are completely opposite?
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 3y
Yea pretty much in false memory you have to become one with your thoughts , your stuck because your thoughts scare you, we have to put our we are a good person deep in our hearts and know that it’s always going to be there that will never leave us.. but it can’t come out during erp and don’t worry it won’t leave you but he has to stay locked up.. know picture yourself coming out with the full armor and saying to your thoughts let’s become one and start agreeing with everything it says,, it sounds crazy but this is the only way out this is erp baby but it’s our life raft back to shore!
alittleapplealittleapple
- Date posted
- 3y
For me everytime I get a traumatic thing or trigger happen to me I think well this time I must have done it/something bc that was too much to handle. I feel suicidal these days :(
alittleapplealittleapple
- Date posted
- 3y
I have the same problem.
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 3y
Are you doing erp?
alittleapplealittleapple
- Date posted
- 3y
Yup I am. In erp my therapist has me imagine the situation and then say maybe that happened and then imagine another situation where I was just sitting in my seat imagining the scary thing happening and saying or maybe not
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 3y
That’s a soft approach.. maybe or maybe not comes with lots of fear in the background. We need to take all fear out.. I agree with my false memory and I tell the thoughts and I enjoyed it .. it’s scary but it works I put my true feelings to the side and tell them I’ll be back but u can’t come with me.. and I go violently at those lies and I agree with them.
alittleapplealittleapple
- Date posted
- 3y
So say my false memory was about me choking an old lady dead and leaving her there. What do I say or imagine?
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 3y
Say I enjoyed that shit and maybe one day I’ll choke another one. Your mind will say your a murderer you deserve to rot in jail. U come back with well I can’t wait in the meantime I might choke another old lady ! Get violent with ocd it wants to throw you around time you throw it around .. ocd gonna be stuck after you come at it with this approach.. but u don’t back off u keep going with this mentality.. after a while you’ll see the benefits of this .. be brave and courageous my sister!
alittleapplealittleapple
- Date posted
- 3y
I’ll try my best! Do you also get images and get convinced you killed ppl too?
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 3y
No mine is intrusive sexual thoughts about harming people.
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andrewt_
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 15w
I believe I’m a monster.
My body has done weird things during interactions and sometimes it feels like the movements came from me, like I controlled them. It’s freaking terrifying. Sometimes I believe I’ve gone psycho. I don’t know who the fuck I am anymore. Maybe I should just accept that I’m a danger to society.
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