Suffering ocd..hate it..any tips
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Being willing to accept risk, with doubts and stuff if you're able to identify that OCD has skewed the thought
Like whether or not you shut the fridge door. Then let the door stay open hypothetically because OCD was the one to tell you that even if it might actually be open, don't check.
Exposure and response prevention I believe is what that falls under and might work as CBT. Unless other symptoms are something you have in mind?
There's loads of things you can do to alleviate OCD. Things that all help to keep it under control, though it doesn't get rid of it altogether.
I've been taught a few tips that are useful. One is to postpone the anxiety. If OCD is telling you one thing and demanding that you carry out a compulsion, then tell yourself that you won't worry about it now, but that you will give it ten minutes of worry at say 5.30 or whatever other hour you want to choose. Chances are that 5.30 comes and goes and you've forgotten all about it.
I've also learned this tip. Think of the panic as like a wave, gathering force and billowing, until it breaks onto the shore. Or perhaps little clouds overhead, that gather but in due course move on and disperse in rain. Or any other metaphor you can think of. The point is that the panic reaches a peak and then subsides, and you can congratulate yourself on having come out the other side.
Don't feel as though you've failed if you let the OCD get the better of you. Each little step taken, each attempt to get past it, helps to break it down and get out of its grip.
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