- Username
- lwazi
- Date posted
- 5y ago
NEVER GIVE UP. Keep facing those fears. Keep reaching out. The fight is awful, but the reward is so grand.
Listen to nature sounds or take melatonin for sleep ( that’s all natural ) I don’t think you can recover from OCD but you can live to the point where it can’t bother you as much.
I plug my headphones in and use the relaxing sounds portion of the “oak” app - it’s the only meditation app I’ve found that’s totally free
It depends how you define recovery. The typical view is that OCD is a chronic condition that might be with you forever, but you can learn to manage it. You will always have OCD under that perspective. On the other hand, I think this tends to ignore the fact that OCD is just a very extreme version of something we do naturally - avoiding discomfort and reducing uncertainty. EVERYONE does compulsions, but the question is whether it interferes with your life. I tend to see mental health as being more like physical health. If I neglect either of those there are consequences. If good mental health is on one end of the spectrum and means I can live my life the way I want to, OCD is far end, stopping me from doing that. So yes, I believe I am recovered from OCD since I generally don't do compulsions to cope with anxiety. That does not mean I don't feel anxiety, because everyone feels it. But I don't avoid it anymore, therefore I currently don't have OCD. If I went back to doing compulsions and avoiding anxiety, yes, it would come back.
I have recovered! I was diagnosed when I was in 6th grade. (I was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome in 3rd grade) After a childhood/teenage-hood of treatment with ERP and CBT as well as medication, I have little to no OCD. I was in residential treatment twice and went to outpatient 3 times. Now, I’m living my life doing what used to be my most crippling trigger. I have flare ups now and then, but because of what I’ve learned and my ongoing therapy, I can manage it and get it under control.
Does anyone else worry and going to sleep so much that it's hard to go to sleep and stay asleep. Or how does ocd affect yalls sleep. I just found out that I had it after years of battling thought about my health and other things in my life now I'm obsessing over sleep.what makes it worse is when I have a clear mind after distracting myself I revert back to the slave mind and it feels again like a weight is in my mind.
Wow - last night I had a terrible night of sleep and the OCD symptoms today are really strong and harder to deal with than normal. For those who have experience in preventing response to exposure, I could use some encouragement (not reassurance) today. How did you get through your hardest days during recovery?
Hi friends! I have been really struggling with sleep problems lately because of my OCD. I either deal with nightmares related to my obsessions or unable to sleep with rumination. It seems like no matter what I try nothing helps. Has anyone else experienced this? Or have any suggestions to what has helped you? I appreciate you all 🙏🏼😊
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