Waves

I understand your struggle. It’s good to see you are having good weeks. Congratulations on your victories 👍. There are different reasons that ocd can spike and be harder to deal with. When ocd does spike and is harder to deal with remember it’s not like we are back to square 1 in those hard times. When ocd spikes and is harder to deal with we use the tools we learned and we can get better at showing ocd how irrelevant it is.

Very much so! At my worst I was stuck in patterns and it felt like it never ended. When I started to go to therapy I started getting better at coping and it felt more like waves. Some years are even better than others for me now but the amount of support and information now coming out about it. Has been helping a lot and I personally am starting to feel normal again.

Omg me too! For some reason having what I call an “ocd flare up” (interesting to see others use that term) this flare up is much worse than my original symptoms 😭 it’s also strange that happened after I had a really good session with ocd therapist and shared with my mom that I feel I’m on the way to recovery. I felt so much better. The darkness of my thoughts were more of a memory not my reality. Then wham! Something triggered me and I’m right back to where I started! Is that why? Cause I was feeling relief and my cruel brain was like “oh no… you’re not getting better quite yet” how cruel! I hate this!! 😡 this is why my fear is never getting well cause my brain will always pick a different trigger as soon as I heal from the previous trigger.