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I will agree with that (good professional help of course) but a positive forum can provide the motivation and support needed to help people make positive change and this week we showed how that can happen.

Without this forum, many including myself would not have gone onto a full recovery

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I think there's a bit of a problem with description/translation (and too much text) that's making this difficult to follow. .

I certainly don't think that curing OCD is that easy in any way.....but neither is this guy a complete crackpot or coming up with some completely hair brained theory. In and among the vast amount that's written, there are some valid points.

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Ocd is anything but easy to get over no matter what anyone says. I have tried various therapists and different treatments and read your theory how you are supposed to get over ocd easy, Yeah, Try having it and come back and say that. There is no easy way or we all would not still be struggling to fight it, This post is just a bit of a joke. I know you were trying to help but it not as easy as you claim it to be lol

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You want OCD to be gone . OCD is a habbit nothing more .

OCD is no more a "habit" than asthma or diabetes or Parkinson's are habits. OCD is a condition caused, in part, by neurological defects, we have the evidence (and have had it for years now) to back this up.

Now it is certainly also true that learned behaviors are a PART of how OCD affects us, and it's also true that we can use behavior modification techniques through CBT to affect change that helps us manage OCD, but it's not the same as say, breaking the bad habit of chewing your nails, which is almost always a purely habitual behavior.

One indication we have of the difference, btw, comes from the first hand experience of OCD sufferers. Countless of us, myself included have beaten bad habits, yet we still struggle with OCD. If the two were one and the same, this wouldn't be true. Can we apply techniques for beating bad habits to treating OCD? Sure, but OCD has more to it, and effective management and recovery from OCD requires a recognition not just of the similarities but the differences too.

While I'm sure your intentions here are good, I think you need to learn more about OCD and how it affects sufferers. In particular realize that some people have it more severely than others, and what may seem easy for one person may be much harder for another. I wish more than anything in the world that OCD had an easy cure, seriously I do, as do all of us here. Trust me, if it were easy we'd all be doing it!

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No. I don't doubt that everyone who has/is suffering from OCD finds it difficult. I do think there are some cases more severe than others but I can't speak on behalf of anyone else as I don't know their cases. I do however believe that some people depending on other factors do have more will power,stronger minds in putting their recovery into practise. But thts not me saying that your OCD was/isn't as bad as mine. You have picked me up wrong on that!

Lucy xxx

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How bad can OCD get?

It varies a lot, but work, relationships and family life are all more productive and satisfying if you are not constantly having to cope with OCD. Severe OCD can make it impossible to work regularly, to take part in family life or even to get on with your family. In particular, they may become upset if you try to involve them in your rituals.

However .... This leaflet does state that some cases can be more severe than others. But I'm not saying that is directed towards you or anyone else who I speak to on here.

Lucy xxx

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Every case of ocd is severe. people can work with it as they have no choice but it does not mean it is any worse than someone does not work, There is no oh my ocd is worse than yours, Every case is just as bad and if they are not how do you know. Some may cope with it differently but it does not make it any less severe than someone else`s

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I have to disagree guys, IMO some people have more severe symptoms of ocd that other people. I am not basing that on content (ie I don't say obsession A is more severe than obsession B)

But it can be more severe because of the impact it has on the sufferer. Also comorbidity can make their mental situation even tougher yet again

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I disagree with you Joanne. I attended a group for people with OCD. There was a grown man who had absolutely NO quality of life whatsoever. He had to leave his wife and kids and move back in with his mother and could not leave the house without her. I've been through spells like that but t times have seen some light ... For this man there was none (in his opinion) and I'd have said his was more severe than mine at that time x

Lucy xxx

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I have been through times where i can`t leave the house so i have to disagree with you, I can leave the house now but the thoughts and the harm and anxiety is no less then when i could not leave the house back your story up with evidence then i may agree

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What sort of evidence would you like me to produce other than my opinion through personal experience?? This is not a personal attack, simply an opinion. Those times when you could not leave your house, and I was going through a good spell and at one point thought I'd beaten it, AT THAT TIME your OCD was more severe than mine. It's my

Opinion not fact!!!!

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Exactly your opinion every one has one i have been through the stage where i can`t leave the house and now i can but my ocd is no less severe than anyone that can`t leave the house all we have is our own opinions or we would be better now

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Hey Jo,

I did say it was just my opinion (IMO) above :)

But il give you an example of why I think that:

Some ocd sufferers have families, children, friends, lives. Generally I don't believe their ocd is as severe (aka effects their lives as detrimentally) as someone who spends 17 hours a day stuck in their house doing compulsions, hasn't been able to touch another person for several years, really wants kids or a partner but with their ocd at that level of severity they have no chance.

That may be because they have more easily accessible distractions and family support etc, maybe their ocd was more severe but they had far more motivation to beat it.

So, I would say the second persons ocd is more severe because ocd is a huge barrier for them in having a quasi normal life (even wasted 12 year olds would be more likely to have a child and family than this sufferer) let alone meet their goal of marriage and children and takes up the majority of their time. Giving them less time and motivation to work on it

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Ok i have two young kids and ms and suffer so much with my contamination issues that i have self harmed but do i think my ocd or anyone elses is more severe no i don`t i have been through hell and back with ocd but i would not consider anyone elses less severe as it is tough no matter what. Motivation, Yes i have ms and no energy to fight some days but everyone with ocd is just as bad off as the next

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Ok but every case of ocd is severe and i will never believe otherwise unless you are someone who knows more than i do xxx sorry but i have been through the extreme a bit better and totally unbearable but ocd is ocd and to me everyone suffers just as bad as we cannot control what is going on in our minds, If it was that easy we would not be here now, I could say i suffer worse than someone else but unless you really get inside their mind and fully understand their daily struggle who knows xxx

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