Reply To: Any advice for bad thoughts

[weemanParticipant]

Wish I had better advice (sorry I’m not on here much these days) used to be on all the time. Was seeing if familiar faces I remember from before still around. For me it’s important to understand your thoughts as troubling as they seem are just thoughts. They arent you sitting day dreaming or hoping for things. Everyone gets intrusive or horrible thoughts from time to time. Just unfortunately for us we can’t turn them off and those combined with our compulsions are disabling. It’s exhausting but I always encourage people to keep fighting. OCD is annoying and relentless and occasionally I stop fighting due to being physically and mentally exhausted but then realised it’s not helping and got to keep going. Distressing images or ideas are not pleasant, I won’t try to understand how the images make you feel as I don’t have similar thoughts mine are different but they aren’t a reflection of who you are. I really hope the doctors find a solution for you, either get your meds spot on or get you in for some CBT or other types of therapy you might find helpful. Even anything to ease the mornings for you to enable you to not use up so much time and help you mentally would be good. Unfortunately there are no easy fixes but sometimes you will find times where it’s not as bad, learn different triggers you can either avoid or embrace and things will get better. I got diagnosed around 25 years ago and still know very little about what it is but I know how people can feel and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.