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 struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
I want to beat OCD because I have seen and felt the benefits of clearing my brain from unnecessary, pointless, thoughts. OCD is like 0 calorie food. It’s pointless. No nutrition or benefits come from my obsessions or compulsions. I don’t care to have answers to everything anymore. I catch myself just trying to stress myself out so that I have some worry to feed on. But like I said, it’s a 0 calorie food. I get nothing from it but wasted time and energy. My brain feels more spacious when I’m not consumed by OCD. I’m present. My personality has room to be herself without making space for bullshit. I tell myself now that worry is poison. I think Willie Nelson was the person I got that quote from? Anyways, that imagery of worries being poison for the mind has been transformative for me. I’m evolving. 💖 Thanks NOCD community.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how OCD changes the way we see ourselves, but I recently realized that I am not my thoughts. Just because a thought pops up doesn’t mean it’s true or that it defines me. I’ve started learning how to see OCD for what it is—just a disorder trying to trick me—and I’ve become stronger in dealing with it. Has anyone else here had a similar realization? How do you handle these thoughts when they show up?
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