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I come on this forum multiple times a day and sometimes scroll for hours when I'm feeling bad. I'm worried I'm now using this as a comfort/reassurance. Do you agree?

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Hello JonDoe and welcome to the forums.

I come on to the forums wether I am feeling good or bad.  At the end of my CBT therapy about 18 months back I asked my therapist if there were any groups where I could share my experience of OCD and my recovery journey.  Due to COVID all local groups had stopped.  My therapist did recommend OCD-UK so I contacted them and I could see that it fitted what I was looking for:

  • To help other people by sharing my own life experience with OCD and my recovery progress
  • To learn from other people about their recovery journeys

Instead of comfort/reassurance I would prefer to use the term 'encouragement' - both ways.

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It could be. When I was really anxious a while back I found myself compulsively checking the forum a lot and reading a lot of posts. I think I did this because in a way I wanted to be reassured that there were others out there who were feeling just as bad as me and therefore I wasn't alone. I would also check posts with a similar theme to mine and see if what they said matched with my themes and in that way it would reassure me that my issue was OCD.

A way to assess whether it is a compulsion is does it have a compulsive drive to it, like if you refused to check the forum say for a day how would that make you feel? Would your anxiety go up or could you easily do without checking it?

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On 23/05/2023 at 10:35, JonDoe said:

I come on this forum multiple times a day and sometimes scroll for hours when I'm feeling bad. I'm worried I'm now using this as a comfort/reassurance. Do you agree?

It sounds that you’re spending too much time on this forum. Stop doing it for a while and see what happens. This is a repeat of Lynz’s point. But checking emails, texts, social media etc is a great problem for many. You could do a lot of creative things in the time you spend looking.

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Absolutely could be used for reassurance but it is very easy to come here when things are tough and then not when they are better.

I would suggest if you come on here then try and reply to at least one post with some help

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