Just trying to survive
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Lms526Lms526
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I have the same problem.
AnonymousAnonymous
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Are you doing erp?
alittleapplealittleapple
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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
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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
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So say my false memory was about me choking an old lady dead and leaving her there. What do I say or imagine?
AnonymousAnonymous
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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
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I’ll try my best! Do you also get images and get convinced you killed ppl too?
AnonymousAnonymous
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No mine is intrusive sexual thoughts about harming people.
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Anonymous
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- 22w
Anyone else struggle with “maybe, maybe not”?
I know the solution is to always say “yeah that could be true, but I am choosing to live my life anyway.” However, I feel like my biggest issue is my brain always assuming that it is immediately true when I do that. Like if I say “maybe I’m attracted to teenagers, it’s possible,” then my brain INSTANTLY starts rationalizing that thought and defending it and being like “oh okay so you think this now and it makes sense because xyz, and now that’s who you are and your real desire is now and always will be teenagers.” I feel really alone in this area of feeling like my brain “accepting the thoughts” means my brain immediately accepts them as true. I obviously don’t want to think they’re true but I feel so stuck now.
Anonymous
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- 19w
The things my brain convinces me of
The things my brain convinces me of are so horrible idk how im going to get through this this time. I feel like I tell my self all the obsessions this episode u don’t even know or you definitely didn’t do but then I just start ruminating on simply the idea of them existing for me to worry abt being enough to keep me in the episode and I can’t even remember them all which doesn’t make sense how I would just forget but ocd makes it make sense yk. Sometimes they feel so real and there is nothing I can do to know and I just want to be happy so bad ik my core values and how I actually feel but it’s just a dark lonely terrifying cloud raining on me all day and night long.
Anonymousssssss
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- 16w
How long until I’m better
Trying my best to stop ruminating and practice acceptance and the possibility and not possibility of things being real. How many times am I going to have to tell myself the exact same thing
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