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[Guest thorns and roses]

i dont know how to feel in controle of my mind .. :-( i feel the ocd has taken my mind and twisted wire around with spikes :-(

[battlethrough]

What tools have you tried using today to chip away at beating ocd

[Guest thorns and roses]

the only tools i used was trying to ignore heckin things . i managed it ...but its still there .... likeeeeee have i checked... . i want to feel my mind floats .. right now it just weighs the weight of a sack of spuds that that are all covered in thick mud with a monkey hanging of it and the monkey is carrying bannanas on the bannanas theres millions of fruit flys .... u catchin g where im coming from :-( :-( :-(

[Guest thorns and roses]

checking things..:-(

[Guest thorns and roses]

my mind is a big massive ball.. full of cells that i wish i cud rewire myslef .. change ... but itsssss meeeee just a struggling me :-(..

[battlethrough]

Yeah I catch you

Do you meditate through mindfullness every day,even just 15 mins a day overtime can help see things in a different perspective,and thats not just hearsay,the science backs it up,no quick fix to ocd unfortantly we have to put the work in

[Guest OCDAY]

Hey Thorns, PM'd you on this.

[Guest PaulM]

Hi thorns and roses,

There are a couple of things that can help.

First, some relaxation - take some deep breaths. Just focus on the breath - the sensation of it coming in slowly and going out again. Just focus on the breath.

Can you step outside of what you're thinking for a second and recognize any patterns of thought such as "what if" type thinking?

Paul

[Guest thorns and roses]

thank u paulm. i do step out and think about the what ifs and do have positive moments . just seems today haf been harder than others .. thank u for ur kind advice . thorns

[Guest PaulM]

Lately when I've been able to step out of the OCD thinking and see what is going on, I shift focus to the cognitive distortions at work in my head.

The reality is I have a thinking problem. Thinking the way I do makes me feel a certain way. My thoughts, however, are not necessarily reality. And when they're OCD thoughts, they're not. The feeling is real. But the thought causing it is a distortion of reality.

The more I recognize it, the less control it has.

Edited August 22, 2014 by PaulM