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@D1ng0 Hi I have ocd and have had many different types throughout my life it can be a tricky thing to deal with for me the most helpful thing has been radical acceptance and just saying that yes I am scared but I am going to keep moving which isn’t easy at all and sometimes I still get stuck but I have gone from spending 20 hours a day on compulsions to about 1-2 hours a day so it is possible to improve things.
For me it got to a point where I had to say so what to my ocd because I just couldn’t keep going to way I was. I remember crying in my car once and just saying “fine then just do it end me and my whole family but I cannot keep doing this so if I die I die but at least I will die in peace” and it was scary but it was kind of a turning point because after that I didn’t give in to my compulsions as much and started to get my life back on track
. It still rears up from time to time but I think I have it under control now.
