Where did you go on OCD Island today? This fantastic drawing was done by @ocddoodles on Instagram. Today I spent most of my time at trigger point. I got lost and couldn’t find lake compassion so I spent some time going down the river of intrusive thoughts and spent the evening at guilt gorge. I’m likely going to spend the night in the shame shack. I hope everyone had a better adventure today! 💛

That bay is a pain in the butt to navigate! I don’t know about you, but my room in the shame shack was so scary I’m convinced the shack is haunted. Good luck on your road trip!

That sounds fantastic!

I’m so glad! 💛

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Congratulations on braving those caves! Glad to hear the road trip is going well! I heard that mt perfection is quite formidable 😬

Yes girl! You got this! I’m hanging out on the dunes of doubt today and taking in the view of what if? bay. Struggling with a dream I had this morning so I’m slowly making my way back to guilt gorge 🤦🏼‍♀️

@Have a sunflower🌻 Thanks girl! Yikes I had a bad OCD dream last night too. Have been getting good and waking up and ignoring it. Dreams are just dreams after all.

@Maybe,MaybeNot Oh goodness I guess they are going around. I don’t know much about dreams. But I have unfortunately heard about dreams meaning things subconsciously and for me they are the same as thinking something bad. Safe to say my moral scrupulosity is freaking out today 😬. I’m glad you aren’t letting it get the best of you like me. You are so strong!

@Have a sunflower🌻 Haha having a dream does not mean we want to think about it. That is a very old suggestion of how dreams work (wish fulfillment by Freud). There are other sorts of dream interpretations and what they mean. What I have personally noticed with my dreams is that I dream about the things that I think about all the time or am afraid of. When I am not in an ocd episode, the dreams go away.

@Maybe,MaybeNot That makes sense! Sometimes I get disturbing dreams before the obsession exists. This makes me question if it means something because it happens before an ocd obsession. The whole thing is so tricky.

@good_day🦢 Ya I think I read somewhere that dreams are just like all the other “junk thoughts” we get everyday. I’m hoping that’s true!

@Have a sunflower🌻 True, sometimes it happens before the obsession, but I also think of dreams as another form of intrusive thought. Just like we have unwanted, ego-dystonic thoughts, we have unwanted, ego-dystonic dreams. We really have no way of knowing for sure what dreams mean. And if all of the dreams I have had meant I liked them or wanted to do something bad, there would be A LOT of things I didn’t realize lol. But even if we like/want something, it’s not the same as doing it.

@Maybe,MaybeNot Thank you this is helpful to hear!