OCD 'QUOTE OF THE DAY'

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Those of you who are veterans of the 'other board' will remember this topic thread.

I thought I would ressurect it on this board - feel free to chip in.

Hope you're all having an ok bank holiday weekend.

Michael

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"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."

-Jawaharlal Nehru

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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"Habit if not resisted, soon becomes necessity"

- St. Augustine

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"Worrying about dying will hardly help you live."

- Albert Ellis

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"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing which you think you cannot do"

-Eleanor Roosevelt.

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"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold"

- Helen Keller

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"Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows".

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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"If we have the right mental strength we can remain unbeaten"

-Arsene Wenger

(couldn't resist!)

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"When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened".

-Sir Winston Churchill

(This great man was also an OCDer himself.)

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""By staying with the anxiety, sufferers come to learn the truth of the matter that nothing really happens when they face their fears, and that their efforts at taking precautions therefore serve no purpose"

-Fred Penzel

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""Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."

-Walter Bagheot

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you

didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail

away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

— Mark Twain

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"By purposefully choosing to come in contact with items or thoughts that are anxiety provoking, the brain tends to send back a less intense signal of fear because it habituates to the anxiety of the stressor. Choosing to expose oneself to the feared item without the escape response is the most critical component of the therapy."

-Steve Phillipson (OCD specialist)

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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment”

- Marcus Aurelius

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"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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"In my experience, those clients who have genuinely challenged the OCD demon to do its worst, and are perfectly willing to confront and endure tremendous discomfort, even death itself, have made the most dramatic progress. They, in fact, have experienced the least amount of pain while performing exposure exercises"

- Steve Phillipson

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"Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or hope that there's anywhere to hide."

- Pema Chodron

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"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear

control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life–specifically the

fear of change, the fear of the unknown & I have gone ahead despite

the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die

if you venture too far."

— Erica Jong (b. 1942), American novelist, poet, "Fear of Flying", "Half Lives"

[Guest ocdfighter]

“Come to the edge.”

“We can't. We're afraid.”

“Come to the edge.”

“We can't. We will fall!”

“Come to the edge.”

And they came.

And he pushed them.

And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918

French Poet, Philosopher

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‘Unfortunately, in the long run, as sufferers use these methods (of avoidance), they only train themselves to be better avoiders who keep their fears going. Avoiding only convinces them that the fears are real, and it prevents them from actually seeing that the dreaded consequences never occur. Ironically, what starts out as a way to help control the anxiety ends up controlling and damaging their lives via a downward spiral of fear and avoidance’

-Fred Penzel

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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more

painful than the risk it took to blossom.!

— Anais Nin

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"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog."

Mark Twain (1835-1910), [samuel Langhorne Clemens] American author, humorist

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"Good and bad things will happen in life and, yes, we all die eventually. The only choice for those of us with OCD is whether to spend the life we have as a slave to OCD - or as a free, spontaneous person."

-Dr Christian Kronar (Ocd sufferer and psychologist)