When you realize that your thoughts will never go away, but that you need to create a world where you and those thoughts can exist in harmony, is where you find peace. ✌️
Plus sometimes engaging less intrusive thoughts or a theme can slowly decrease the prevalence... so when people treat the OCD with acceptance + ERP, they can possibly reduce intrusive thoughts and "themes"
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@A23 100%. This is what it’s all about!
It’s taken a long time to get there, but I think I’m slowly but surely starting to accept that
@mseb10 Absolutely! And you also will stumble along the way. I’ve found having a simple mantra like this helps me when I stumble a little!! Peace and love to you!!
Yessss ❤️👏🏻
I’m stumbling at the moment but trying to remember there have been times even recently where the thoughts haven’t been so loud or scary and so I know I can get back to that place. Trying not to engage in back and forth conversation with OCD right now. So hard to stop the mental compulsions though.
@BMAnon Can relate to that. I am currently living in a very stable situation in relation to OCD. There are still days where I get visits from the thoughts that, not so long ago, really terrified me. But it is such a good feeling to know that they are now there with every other thought, just passing through. I even laugh about them sometimes. There may come a time again when it will be worse but even then, I dont have to erase them, I just have to accept them. They are not the problem, neither am I. Just the way I value them is a bit off. Long story short: Its worth it, keep up the good work🎉 Greetings from Germany
@BMAnon Keep working at it. Journal, meditate, exercise, try to eat healthy. You got it!!
@WalterWhackstick Love this! You got it right! Peace and love to you!
@MindfulMan4 I'm really, really struggling right now and my husband can't take me complaining about it. I feel physically sick to my stomach. I can't let this terrible image go. I don't know what to do. It's been debilitating for me. Nothing is getting done here. It's all a mess. I'm really losing hope and can use some kind of support. I feel I'm losing my mind. Scared
@Speckles If you aren’t on medicine or seeing a therapist, my immediate advice is start there. You are likely in such a pitch that your brain needs some help with its chemical balance right now!
@MindfulMan4 Thank you for responding. I am on meds and have tried so many and they aren't working. That is why I feel so desperate. Just started with NOCD and just started with a therapist too.
I get that you can’t fight the thoughts, otherwise they get way worse. No use arguing that, it’s OCD-101. lol. But agreeing with them can be damaging right? Especially with POCD and SO-OCD. I’ve accepted that I’ve had these thoughts and have stopped trying to fight them mostly, but I refuse to accept that the thoughts say anything about me. Is that the correct way of dealing with it? Agreeing with them seems like it truly would damage me and hurt my self-confidence.
Good morning friends. While I'm in my recovery and very close to I think my breakthrough I want to share what has been helping me and really what I came to the conclusion of. We think our minds and brains are broken but really we need to change our relationship with our minds and separate ourselves from them. Your mind is not a bully, your mind is not against you! Your mind is your very best friend. Every intrusive thought you have is your minds way of protecting you to the possibilities it THINKS will happen. You are NOT your thoughts you are NOT your feelings. Thoughts create feelings. Thus feelings are joined with thoughts. Once we start realizing our thoughts are protection we limit our suffering. Stop hating your mind, stop hating your thoughts they are protection. Your brain gathers information to create stories that may be similar to you however, it just wants you to be careful even though you know deep down you're safe. You don't need saving. Your brain is working just how it's suppose to. Our true nature is peace, joy and happiness. Our anxiety is a signal to step back and let our thinking settle like a snow globe when you shake it. When you take that step back and leave your thinking alone it will settle and your true state which is peace, joy and happiness returns to you. (the snow globe settles) Any thought you have while anxious is distorted and you will never be able to solve anything in that state. Leave that thinking alone. When you feel depressed that's actually a defense mechanism. That is a signal to rest you're fighting too hard. You don't need to fight just simply leave it alone. We have been taught anxiety and depression are bad and we need to fix ourselves but what if because we think they are bad we fight them and hence make our suffering worse? What if we change the relationship and notice these are signals to step back or rest? We don't need to fight we don't need to resist. Our minds are our friends keeping us safe from info we once gathered. Our thoughts are NOT us. No matter your worries no matter your feelings your brain is your friend anxiety and depression are defense tools. You don't need fixing you need to just be 🤍 everything will be okay. I love you all and I hope this gives you some help today. Keep on going don't give up better days are coming for you all ✨️
I read many articles about this, cause i dont know how to accept thoughts, and i hear "just let it come in, let it make you feel bad, let it make you feel anxious or depressed. So in my entire life, everytime i will have a negative thought, intrusive thought or disturbing thought, i let it make me feel how it wants. Im in a depressive season right now, i have many disturbing thoughts, i have to accept all of them to come in my mind and im acknowledging every thought and letting them make me feel how they want? Poeple are angry here that i ask this many times but i dont see any progression there...I tried to do that and gave me a huge depressive feeling and i started to panic. Now im overthinking if that depression means something deeply about me or not... and also if i find some thought patterns, should i change them? Or just dont engage in them? Also not engaging for me sounds like avoidance,.cause i avoid to engage in it. This "sit with it, accept them, work through them" doesnt make sense to me. When should i say this is an ocd thought in dont have to figure it out or this is something that i have to think about?
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