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LaurenL505

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  1. I would say ‘stupid’...in the moment, it makes me feel anxious, but after the anxiety has depleted, I just feel a bit stupid for getting sucked into the spiral again. Along with...embarrassed, guilty for what I put my family through, but also it has helped me in some aspects of life, such as my work, it has helped me to be empathetic, understanding and less judgemental.
  2. Hi all, I am relatively new to OCD UK and accessing the forum, although I have had OCD for many years. But I just wanted to say how useful I found the conference over the last two days- the presentations were very informative and I’m feeling motivated to put some of the advice we received into action. Thank you for organising, it was so helpful.
  3. Yes, to be honest...Sunday is always a particularly bad day for me, I don’t know what it is, probably the anxiety of the upcoming working week- but this Sunday has been significantly better than the last couple of weeks so I’m trying not to be so hard on myself. But yes, I have the calm app which I use on my phone, I haven’t done it tonight but I might try now, thank you x
  4. I’m staying strong and not reacting to the thoughts...I find that I don’t want to do the checking anymore, because that would be stupid of me and a step backwards, but my mind won’t switch off!
  5. Thank you both...I’ve been facing up to my fears and exposing myself to all of the things which I would have checked, double, triple....god only knows how many times before I go to bed exhausted (always happens at night). And I really appreciate your advice, and want to say thank you. One thing I’m really struggling to kick though is the rumination, it’s like a stuck record...and if I stop thinking about one thing, another thing pops up. I’m really pleased with the progress I’ve made in exposure but I feel that the rumination is causing me to undermine the triumph and to look past any achievements which I’ve made.
  6. Okay thank you both, I have had a look at your video, really helpful, I’m going to start practicing this. just another quick question- I think that me having to put stuff in the bin and then check if the lids are on is a big part of my ocd, so I was thinking of practicing my husband putting the stuff in the bin and then me not checking...but is this avoidance? Maybe we could do alternate days of putting in the bin..that way I would still be facing up to my compulsions. What do you think?
  7. Hi all, I am new to this forum so bear with me if none of this makes sense. I am not in therapy for OCD, I have attempted to access but on waiting list so mostly trying self help techniques at the moment. My OCD revolves around checking things around the house- particularly checking my car is locked, lights are off, bin lids are down etc. I am practicing ERP by myself at the moment, but my question is- If I don’t for example check the bins, but then I think about it all the time like ‘were the lids down’...trying to picture them in my head to almost double check in my head....is this ruminating, and if so, how on earth do I prevent this from happening when we can’t just switch off our thoughts?....or is this normal and eventually I will hopefully not have these questions going round my mind? thanks xx
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