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We don't recover from OCD by talking about it online or at a monthly support group..... we get better by 'doing', so do something, do something today!
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Breaking an OCD - induced routine (ritual) is a great act.
It shows we can do it, however much OCD screams at us as a result - and it gives us such a sense of achievement.
I wanted to watch Tony Robinson's programme about Canterbury cathedral (which I have personally visited) but knew he would go into grisly detail about the murder of Thomas a Becket, yet as a history buff I felt I wanted to know a little more about the detail behind that, plus I wanted to face out the violence (the theme of my harm OCD).
I recorded it, then watched the programme straight through, not avoiding that violent passage.
And a couple of days later, I watched the recording through again with my wife, who wanted to see it.
And, because I have kept my OCD homework up to date, the violent passage didn’t affect me - I was able to watch it without an OCD trigger as a result
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Thank you Ashley, gbg and Roy for your kind words of support
Quite often it’s so easy to think oh I can’t do this now, because?
It’s so easy to just sit back and use things as an excuse as to why we couldn’t and there will always be an excuse to why we couldn’t do it or can’t. We need to admit to ourselves first that we are hiding behind excuses for not doing things so we can start to make progress