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PolarBear

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  1. What malina said. That's why it's a leap of faith. You're just going to assume it's true and get on with it.
  2. That's your truth so perfectly acceptable. For me, I haven't been bit in more than nine years.
  3. I don't know if I could say I am living with OCD. Sort of like saying you're living with a tumor that has been shrunk by radiation to zero. I have no symptoms of OCD. I haven't for more than nine years. I am an ex-sufferer because I do not suffer from the disorder.
  4. If you have a small crack in one tooth, that's what you have. Notice how your mind blows that out of proportion. One small crack in one tooth becomes your whole mouth "all messed up". That's the first thing to notice, that OCD always makes a potential issue into a huge ordeal. Notice that. One truth about OCD is that always lies. One of your compulsions is to constantly run your tongue over your tooth. It does no good. It does help to keep the supposed issue top of mind, where it will continue to bother you. Try to stop doing that. The other compulsion you no doubt do is ruminating, going over the supposed issue in your mind. Again, it does no good. Try to get your mind onto other things.
  5. Jonesy, there was absolutely nothing wrong with your post. It was factual and from the heart. The last thing vulnerable sufferers need to see is misinformation when they are desperately trying to control their beasts.
  6. We are all for discussion. Some of us have had it with repeated posting of blatant misinformation.
  7. Once again you completely misrepresent meds and their place for some people in maintaining good mental health. Once again you claim that meds are a compulsion. You've said this many times without any rational explanation. This has been debunked repeatedly, yet you still cling to it because you personally despise meds; not because you know what you are talking about. I am not in denial of having OCD. This is just another baseless claim by you. Your third baseless claim is that OCD recovery is about managing symptoms without medication. That may be what you see recovery as, but it is not what everyone believes. Recovery can be about more than just managing symptoms. And many people are assisted by meds to make fundamental changes to their thinking patterns.
  8. Robin, I'm not a therapist and therefore don't know how they do everything. You are absolutely fixated on dementia, just as you were absolutely fixated on radiation. That's an OCD thing, but there is a common thread involving you dying and your life being over long before it really is.
  9. There's nothing easy about it. Overcoming OCD is a fairly simple thing but it is incredibly difficult to put into practice. Sufferers spend lifetimes doing and thinking all the wrong things. It takes a lot to change those ingrained behaviors.
  10. So maybe you need a therapist to help you stay away from the couch, regardless the outcome.
  11. You leave it alone. Stop looking for an answer. Stop trying to find a solution. In short, that means stopping your compulsions, like never research anything to do with dementia.
  12. Do you see the proof that compulsions don't work? No matter how safe you feel, it will all start again tomorrow. You don't have to prove you don't like the thoughts. You can just ignore them. That's the only way out for you.
  13. No,you don't need to get it straight in your head. The idea of that likely came from you doing compulsions and in order for you to try and get it straight, you'll have to do even more compulsions, which won't work. You'll just go round and round in your head, which is exactly what OCD wants.
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