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It gets better!! Keep going and learning all u can.
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thank you
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Are you a Christian ?
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catholic!
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I too have felt this and you’re so not alone💗 it does get better and then some setbacks may happen but it does get better I promise you.
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yes! i was doing so well and then i went back to square one so i just feel defeated
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@milena🪴 I feel this way all the time.. don’t worry you’re not alone💜
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Hi milena, I have definitely been there more times than I care to think about. Sounds like OCD bully is trying to double down on making you doubt yourself, and your recovery, and ratcheting up the anxiety and depression in order to feed it the negativity about yourself that it craves. I’ve been in recovery since FEB and despite all the ERP and meds and how far I know I have come…I still have days when I feel lost and hopeless and not sure what the point of constantly struggling with both my OCD and ADHD is. It happens a lot less frequently than it used to, but still happens. The point of going through ERP and struggling like we do, is because we want to be able to live our lives as best as we can the way WE want to…not the way the OCD bully wants us to. We have spent way too much time doubting ourselves and our decisions and ruminating on obsessions and endlessly doing compulsions only to repeat and repeat and repeat and make the OCD bully even stronger and miss out on doing what we like and enjoying time with the ones we love, which only makes us more anxious and depressed and doubt ourselves….and we want it to stop. Even if the thoughts and doubt never fully go away, you WILL learn to pay them less and less attention over time and eventually they will fade into the background and you may not notice when they re there. It will take time and there will be some days easier (or worse) than others, but remember what waits for you at the finish line…you….the you you either lost to OCD or never got a chance to be backseats of the OCD bully. You and your life are waiting at the other end, and that’s why it’s important to stick with ERP and fight through all of the doubt and negative feelings the OCD bully throws at us. You should absolutely be proud of every step of your recovery, no matter how small you may think those steps are, towards telling your OCD bully to go kick rocks and leave you alone. Take care of yourself and stay strong, you can do this.
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I'm currently at one of the lowest points with my OCD despite me working so hard on it and everything that I know it stems from because a lot of my OCD comes from trauma from sexual abuse as a kid and as I got older and a lot of other stuff which is also why I have Complex PTSD. I was doing so well, I started medication, and I was in this dual housing program for treatment and everything was going okay. That was until I ended up getting SA’D by a man there and none of the staff cared or did anything despite me doing everything possible and gathering all of this evidence and all the people there either didn't care or bullied me relentlessly as they laughed with my abuser. It was so painful and I felt so alone. I think what triggered my spiral was that it was very similar to the reactions of my past assaults and thus my OCD came spiralling alongside my C-PTSD symptoms and I feel like it is worse then before. I left that place but its still absolutely terrible and I feel so hopeless and hurt. Not only did this man hurt me like I have been in the past he brought back the very thing that caused me so many years of suffering. It makes me sick. I don't want to think these thoughts or feel these horrible urges and sensations. I feel so disgusting and broken.
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I know I keep talking about This but I’m too tired :( I’m really struggling and I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like I might be the only person who experiences this in the way I do. It’s gotten so bad that during intimacy or self-pleasure, I feel like I’m acting on a thought — like my body is moving because of it. It’s terrifying and deeply hurtful. The moment it happens, I immediately panic, try to rewind everything in my head, and ruminate to figure out what I was thinking at that exact second… but I can never remember. That makes it even worse. feel so lost and hopeless, like I’ll never be able to heal or move on from this. People tell me “it’s just OCD,” but it doesn’t feel like OCD to me. It feels like I’m the exception — like no one else truly experiences it like this, especially the part where it feels like I physically responded to a thought. I know people say “others go through this too,” but my mind keeps saying, “not like this, not this specific thing.”Sometimes I just wish I could go back and relive those moments so I could be sure what happened, but I know that’s not possible. I feel so stuck in guilt and doubt that I don’t even know who I am anymore. I’m scared I’m a bad person and that I’ll always feel this way. I’ll never be free or be the same again everyday I live with deep depression
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I feel like I’ve lost who I am , even since my depression and ocd started. I don’t even know what I like anymore:(( I doubt everything I think and it’s so draining because I just want to feel like my old self again😭 I feel like I have no motivation to get better which is bothering me so much because I want too but something is holding me back from doing what I need to do :/ with all my thoughts and doubts , I feel like I can’t trust myself . I don’t know if I’m the only one that feels this much pain
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