#ocd recovery

[abnormalpsychology]

ok rupaul. thank you rupaul

#lip syncing for my sanity all day every day fr #remember you’re the reigning queen of your thoughts guys :( ❤️ 🫶🏻 #ocd #actually ocd #ocd recovery #intrusive thoughts #obsessive compulsive disorder

[somesecretpie]

Self-portrait

#ocd recovery #anthro #ant #ants #artists on tumblr #piedoodles

[crayonurchin]

A reminder to OCD folks that a trigger can come from something happy. I just got tickets to an event and I'm really excited, but it's triggered intrusive thoughts of being assaulted. I've gone from excited to nearly spiralling over thoughts of being hurt cuz triggers literally do not care where they come from and OCD will latch onto literally anything in the world.

And that's okay. It's okay that the happy thing is a bit shit right now. Don't engage with the thoughts, don't perform the compulsions. You can only get so upset and so anxious, and when you reach the maximum garbage feeling, it will have nowhere to go but back down.

Take some time to recover from the episode however you need- meditation, exercise, a comfort show, journalling, snacks etc. Just don't perform the compulsions.

OCD wants to make you miserable and even if it succeeds right now, it doesn't mean it'll succeed later.

No matter how shitty I feel today despite getting these tickets, when the time for the event comes, and I go despite my anxiety and intrusive nightmare thoughts, I'll be WAY WAY WAY happier for the experience of the show than I would be for avoiding it.

Everyone has a different experience and there will be always be nuance but for this?

OCD IS A BITCH AND YOU AIN'T A BITCH AND OCD WANTS TO MAKE YOU ITS BITCH BUT THE ONLY BITCH YOU ARE IS A

BAD BITCH

#OCD #mental health #ocd recovery #intrusive thoughts #obsessive compulsive disorder #HEY YOU #PERSON IN AN ANXIOUS HELL OF AWFUL THOUGHTS #YOU'RE A BAD BITCH #AND YOU WILL SURVIVE THIS #and when you're exhausted from the emotions I will bring you hot choccy and we can watch Bluey #you're going to be okay- I promise <3

[foolishtobias]

Valtr!!!

I recently figured out that what I've been experiencing since childhood is called thought-action fusion. I always knew I had OCD but I never knew there was a name for this specific feeling. I feel much better about myself seeing everything on paper.

"The construct of TAF has two components: (a) the belief that thinking about an unacceptable or disturbing event makes it more likely to happen and (b) the belief that having an unacceptable thought is the moral equivalent of carrying out the unacceptable or disturbing action."

I always feel (a) when I'm thinking about something that isn't a humans fault (the sun dying, my loved ones dying, my loved ones disappearing) and (b) when I'm thinking about bad things that humans can do. I know that just knowing that something bad exists won't "corrupt" me, but I'm still not free of this.

When I look at Valtr I'm looking at myself when things were much worse, and I'm seeing a version of me that never escaped the spiral. He is quite special to me.

#bloodborne fanart #bloodborne art #bloodborne #valtr master of the league #actually ocd #ocd recovery

[blisseysuggestions]

my love, you are going to be okay ♡ healing takes time - i know you want your life back right now already and to just live again, i know. it’s all okay my love. healing doesn’t happen overnight, take your time ♡ you’re not running out of time!!!

#ana recovery #anorexia recovery #anxiety #anxiety recovery #ed recovery #mental health #mental wellbeing #my post #ocd #positivity #recover #recovery #suggestion #suggestions #ocd recovery #recoverycore #happeycore #encouragement #comfort #comfortcore

[ardenti-luna]

ocd is such an exhausting disorder like

i can't even express how much it takes out of me to do anything, because everything has to be a compulsion. i spend hours each day doing my compulsions and just trying to survive, and it makes me feel so helpless.

if you know anyone with ocd, give them a hug. it sucks.

#ocd #living with ocd #ocd recovery

[kaylagraypa]

Affirmations for OCD that me and you can practice for loosening the grip of OCD and actually start believing we are not our thoughts . 

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I am not my thoughts.

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Thoughts do not indicate want or desire. 

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Thoughts do not say anything about my character or the person I am .

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I choose values over fear .

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I accept that I get intrusive thoughts without needing to know why or what it means . 

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Intrusive thoughts are a symptom of my disorder, not a flaw in my character . 

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For recovery, start believing , I am not my thoughts , that thoughts don't mean anything about me , start actually believing that .

Check out the full video

#youtube #mental health awareness #ocd #ocd recovery #actually ocd #affermations #ocd awareness #OCD #mental health

[lennydavillain]

I actually love self-treating my OCD. Like, I actually conciously think about myself and the things I do, and I say "I don't know why I do this, but it's making me upset", and then I figure out how I can stop doing it. Like, I'm actually so proud of myself for stopping building sandwiches in a particular order because one of my "rules" used to be "the pickles cannot touch the cheese", but I was like, "okay, one sandwich. I will make a sandwich without lettuce to go between them, because I do not have lettuce", and I made a sandwich where the pickles touched the cheese, and I was trying to back out the whole time, but I finished it, and it was fine, and I thought about every other time I ate a sandwich where the pickles touched the cheese, and I realized they were also fine, and it doesn't actually taste different or do bad things and it's just like any other sandwich, because it is just like any other sandwich. And sometimes I'm still like "but you can't put the pickles touching the cheese" and then I tell myself "yes I can, and I'll do it right now", and it's fine. And that's just one example, but like it's so cool how I'm just able to do this on my own without needing any external help. Maybe someday, I'll be able to be free from the invisible strings that plague my everyday life and dictate my every action. Not like puppet strings, I'm not making a metaphor, I mean the invisible strings that are attached to all objects and the back of my neck that I can't let get tangled by wrapping them around things or spinning in one direction too much or like, letting it get caught in doorways because I walked through the wrong one, or like... passing items through openings and then not passing them through the same opening on the way back, cause then the string will get caught and tangled and it'll... hurt me or something idk. That's the big one. The big rule. And it's the worst one. Oh yeah along with touching things, that's... also..

#ocd #ocd stuff #ocd things #actually ocd #ocd recovery #self healing #exposure therapy #text #text post #and like right when i verbally expressed lightheartedly how silly it was that i had a rule that wouldn't let me touch pickles to cheese #my mom said #actually you might have had a point because the juices from the pickles- #and i said please don't say that #and she fucking doubled down and started getting upset because she thought that was a personal attack or something??? #anyway that's how my mom almost undid all of my progress with a single comment #she does this all the time #like she makes a comment and i say please don't #because it makes me uncomfortable or brings up triggers or just makes me upset #and she's like #bUt I'm jUsT eXprEsSinG mY oPiniOn #and one of the times she did this is actually a serious traumatic moment for me #i guess it's cause she's a white woman and isn't used to being wrong?? or sonething? #also stupid age and generational ego complex whatever it's like cause they knew me when I was a child I must still be a child #and also I'm always wrong because I don't know anything because I'm a child #and I do more research on whatever topics they're trying to argue with me about while they don't even bother googling basic information #oh so you know more about psychology than I do because you have a degree in architecture? oh really? because you went to college? #oh you know more about concussions than I do because you were a lifegaurd in the 90's? and I literally looked up info on them 3 minutes ago? #in actual medical articles?? #sometimes I can't stand these people #i can't wait to move out of here oh wait i can't

[adhbabey]

Consume media uncritically for once.

#babey posts #ocd reminders #ocd recovery #this post is for everyone btw #just this post is especially for ppl who struggle with anxiety

[elasmobranch-enthusiast]

i want to share something i posted on my private instagram in its entirety. (tumblr people i trust most of you dm me if you want the @)

i’ve been wanting to talk about my relationship with art for a little while now.

as a young child, i was always drawing, coloring, or painting something, like lots of kids. making art was just a fun and relaxing activity for me, something i did pretty frequently and enjoyed.

that changed as i got older. my ocd got worse, i became more critical of myself, and i was noticing how different i was to everyone else. people called me creative a lot as a kid. i took pride in that. but i started to notice that i had been drawing the same things over and over my whole life. other kids my age didn’t do that. how could i be creative when i never created anything new? it didn’t make sense to me, and i felt like a fraud. so i pushed myself to draw other things even though i didn’t really want to. and then i noticed more things i didn’t like. i’d never learned how to hold a pencil correctly. my hands were too shaky, my lines always jagged or wiggly. i couldn’t grade the pressure i was putting on the pencil. compared to my peers, my art looked like it had been made by someone younger. i hated that. to me, different meant it was ugly and bad. so i figured i needed to reteach myself how to draw. i became a connoisseur of those how to draw (blank) books. but every line i made that didn’t perfectly match the image from the books had to be redone. anything less than perfect wasn’t good enough. i’d erase holes into my paper, telling myself i couldn’t do anything right. the thoughts got worse, that terrible things would happen to me if i couldn’t do something perfectly. art was becoming just another one of the seemingly endless sources of anxiety in my life. picking up a paintbrush or looking at a blank sheet of paper was enough to send me into panic. this phase of my life was roughly from ages 6 to 11.

so i quit. no more painting or drawing. i wasn’t good at it so it wasn’t for me. i had to accept that. i found other creative outlets like writing and crochet, which i was already getting into as i became more and more disillusioned with art. this lasted until i was about 16 and my ocd got a lot more manageable.

since then, i’ve gotten tiny flickers, little urges to make art again. filled with fear, i tried drawing and painting again. and i would hate the results, so i’d quit again for another few months. that cycle repeated many times.

but recently, it’s been different. i had the urge to pick up watercolors and just couldn’t resist it. but something was different this time. i hated my work, but i didn’t want to stop. i wanted to try again. so i have been, for a few weeks now. and i’m enjoying it. it only dawned on me recently that i had once labeled watercolors as my least favorite medium to work with years ago. i found them far too difficult to control. and now, that’s what i like about them. that they sort of do their own thing, that they take control and i adapt to them. and i think there’s profound healing in that. i’ve found peace in wetting the colors, creating transparent layers. slowly building them up to more vibrant colors, and swirling my brush in water. it quiets my mind.

so currently, i’m fixated on painting jellyfish. over and over. that’s all i’ve been painting, but i’m okay with that. maybe one day i’ll perfect them. but if not, i’ll be okay.

i still don’t think my art is good. in fact, i’m embarrassed to post it. but i am because i think it’s important to my healing journey. and i may not be proud of how it looks, but i am proud of what it means.

#autism #aac user #ocd #watercolors #jellyfish #ocd recovery #art therapy #medium support needs #art #long post #wall of text #sorry #my post

[recoveringsylveon]

yes, sometimes you should push through in recovery and challenge yourself - but it is equally as important to know when to stop

stopping is not weak - it's not giving up, it's knowing your boundaries. you're not a failure for stopping. you have all the time in the world to heal! take it easy!

#recovery #positivity #ed recovery #mental health #anxiety recovery #anxiety #depression #depression recovery #ocd recovery #ana recovery #neurodivergent

[mental-mona]

#ocd #ocd recovery #obsessive compulsive disorder #living with ocd #mental health #mental illness #mental health awareness month #mental health recovery #actually ocd

[crayonurchin]

#ocd #gender ocd #t-ocd #ocd recovery #obsessive compulsive disorder #the summer now brings a deep dread because it keeps flaring up a very scary OCD subset in me #the OCD never stops but summer makes it worse #I can't pretend it's not there #and I can't just agree with it- cuz then there's new OCD #it's a complicated illness #and it's tricky to explain #I wanted to do this before but I was terrified of not being clear and looking transphobic #but I can't control how anyone views this- all I can do is maintain my own well being #summer 2024 will likely give me another episode of gender OCD #And I want to find joy in summertime despite that #a cute new outfit and a picnic in the park so I can paint the flowers is my current goal #old recovery is possible and you can recover too I promise #do not give up #just because it feels like you're dying it doesn't mean you are

[historyoftimeandspace]

ocd recovery day 3… i hate everything.

every surface in my house is contaminated. i was supposed to have the couch as a safe space for the next two weeks… but nope-

i just want to cry. i’m uncomfortable and i feel my ed is coming back strong as a way to gain control back over my life…

#ocd #ocd recovery #ed #eating disoder trigger warning #contamination ocd #cocd #ocd recovery sucks

[wear-your-voice]

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[blisseysuggestions]

just a gentle reminder for those in recovery: it is okay to rest. to take time off. wether that be from school, work, or anything else. your health is always the most important priority - both physical and mental. don’t worry, you’re not running out of time - time spend healing is not time wasted, ever ♡ 🌱

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