PolarBear

That's your truth so perfectly acceptable. For me, I haven't been bit in more than nine years.

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.

Keep at it.

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.

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.

We are all for discussion. Some of us have had it with repeated posting of blatant misinformation.

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.

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.

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.

So maybe you need a therapist to help you stay away from the couch, regardless the outcome.

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.

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.

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.

Not if the precautions preclude you from living a normal life.

Ah, but our ancestors didn't worry about tigers 24 hours a day. OCD is all consuming, to the detriment of living a normal life.

You did it before. You can do it again. A first step would be to stop repeating yourself. You've told us several times you clicked on the image and Googled their name. This is a compulsion. It needs to stop.

In most countries, chid sex abuse images are those of anyone under the age of 18, NOT only prepubescent children.

Highly inaccurate and completely unhelpful under the circumstances. Jackal, this is an obsession, nothing more. If you dwell on it and ruminate, it becomes a big deal. If you leave it alone, it dies.

You allow yourself to move on. You choose not to dwell on it.

Oh, you do have obvious compulsions. They're fairly screaming out at you. Avoidance is a compulsion. You are avoiding work being done, to the detriment of your living conditions. I suspect you ruminate like crazy over this topic. Ruminating is a huge compulsion. How about getting things tested? Repeatedly?

Relationship OCD can also be when the sufferer gets obsessions that their loved one/friend does not care for them. Please don't make definitive statements like Relationship OCD don't have physical compulsions. Someone with this theme could frequently text or call a loved one, looking for reassurance. That would be a physical/overt compulsion.

This is a bit of a trick that therapists use. If I can convince you to set aside your worrying and compulsions until later and in the mean time you get back to living your life and doing important things, there is a good chance that when the time comes, things aren't that big a deal and you won't do compulsions or worry.

Yes, you are overthinking this. Leave it alone and get your mind on other things.

You ignore those thoughts too, as best you can. They're just more intrusive thoughts.

All you do is repeat the testing, constantly. Where does that get you? Are you going to do that for another year? Five years? Ten? Let it go.