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Anonymous asked: hello! i was wondering if you knew what happened to ocdfree? i'm just curious because i'm hunting for ocd blogs just so that i know i'm not completely alone in this but it seems to be hard to find some that are updated. i was also wondering if you knew of any good ocd help/resource/support blogs? thanks. :) I don’t :( He was around the last time I was on. Hopefully he’s just happily off enjoying his life and free from OCD. :) I keep a little list linked on the blog, but I’m always hunting for new ones, I’ll keep a look out and update the list soon! |
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Anonymous asked: It's the anon who is afraid of getting in trouble. Is there anyway we can talk about it privately off anon and have it stay between us please? … and yes to this, I pretty much always respond privately, especially when it’s personal stuff. :) |
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Anonymous asked: As I was saying, I guess that in all of my fear and anxiety I forgot that all those other obsessions that I had gotten rid of didn't just disappear over night, it took a lot of hard work and eventually got easier and easier to deal with. And I guess thats part of why I was feeling frustrated. It seemed like all the other ones went away so easily when it took a lot of effort and work. And actually took little therapy. All my obsessions have made me feel helpless and fustrated more than (TBC) :) Sounds to me like you’re going to be alright, you know you just have to keep working at it. and you’re right, the past is in the past. My favorite, most effective response to OCD is.. “so what if… I am going to do this now..” and I do whatever I want to with my day, even if it’s triggering. :) I have dealt with a lot in OCD and one obsession always takes the biggest tole on me, I still react to the triggers sometimes even though the thought isn’t fully there. It’s something I have to deal with, but I always know it can be better once I accept that the thoughts are there.. |
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Anonymous asked: Its the anon who wanted to talk to privately because they're scared they're gonna get in trouble? I don't know that I should because my compulsion is to confess when my obsessions and well, I've worked really hard to stop it. I know theres a difference between getting advice and reassurance but I don't know if I want to give into temptation. Truth is, I realized that OCD will always make me feel bad about something, that there is something wrong with me. I made a bad mistake as a kid (TBC) Telling a counselor/therapist isn’t the same as confessing. :) It’s getting help to manage the obsessions/compulsions. Rationalizing is usually a fuel to the fire with OCD.. That’s why ERT and Acceptance are great things. Even the most disturbing obsessions can fade in acceptance, when you take away the meaning.. When your OCD is thought-jumping (in your TBC) it’s good to recognize it. It’s actually really normal in recovery. So yes, next week you might be obsessing about something else.. But I promise the less attention you give and the less rationalizing/fighting the thought, the easier it’s going to get to deal with them. |
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Anonymous asked: I can possibly count. So I just wanted to say I'm going to keep working hard, and thank you for the advice. ♥ |
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Anonymous asked: I feel hopeless! I just recently had a spike in my OCD and it brought back an old obsession that is probably one of my worst. Last time I had it, I laid in bed for two weeks and had to force myself to eat just a small piece of fruit or something :/ It's something I want to work on in therapy but I'm scared because I'm scared that I'll get in huge trouble. It's an obsession with something that I did when I was about six or seven. I have a hard time when obsessing about the past :/ Technically if there’s no identifiable person involved you can’t get into any trouble. Most things aren’t as big of a deal once you open up about them in therapy, especially things from being so young. In fact, it helps to be honest simply because that’s how they can help you. My counselor always pointed out that I let out my secret when I told her and that I was taking the weight off. And that she could better help me when I told her. Just how she would write out my obsessions and I’d see her do it, and she’d say them as part of exposure response therapy. Ultimately, the best way to deal with an obsession is to just accept that it’s there, that it has no meaning whether it’s true or not. We all have things in our past that can turn into obsessions, I do too, but eventually after acceptance and exposure sets in, it gets better (or the unfortunate changing to a different obsession in focus). - Please get out of bed, I know it’s easy to stay there, I know there were days I couldn’t stomach anything, but I tried my best and eventually my body learned that it had to eat no matter what was going on in my head, I’d force breakfast, and a week later I could eat normally again. Letting these things get in the way of your daily activities is giving into the disorder, doing these things regardless of your mind. helps you to recover. |
