The introduction to understanding the madness of OCD

For those of us who have OCD, we know all it can be, right? Do you know the one thing it is not though? The truth. Everything OCD tells you about yourself and about the ones you love is always the complete opposite of how you really feel. That would explain the intense feeling of panic you experience when one of these obtrusive thoughts occurs in your mind. You don’t know how to handle such a thought because you can’t understand where it came from, and you start to wonder if maybe you really are some evil person that wants these things that conjure up in your mind to really happen. Then you feel compelled to do something else —a compulsion of some sort—to somehow “undo” or “fix” this dreadful thought. You know what comes next. You repeatedly perform whatever task it is that relieves the fear and anxiety; but then say about an hour later…the same type of thought or fear pops back up in some other way, shape, and/or form.

You feel like you’re just doomed don’t you? Like there’s no way out? An endless loop of self destruction brought on by your own mind? Some dark monster who sits in your mind with his only goal in life being to sabotage your everything thought, action and emotion. He tries to convince you that you do indeed want something bad to happen to your sister, or your best friend; and that those sudden horrible pictures that pop into your head of harming someone you love, is some deep seated desire that is trying to get out.

I felt doomed too. OCD was ruining my life. Everything was a fear, an issue of some sort. That is until I finally realized I don’t have to do what it says. I then set out to try to find out exactly what OCD really is, and not what it makes you think it is—or rather what it makes you think you are.

Now that doesn’t mean I don’t still struggle from time to time. I will post struggles I have here and techniques and skills I used to help me get through it, and that will hopefully help you get through too.

In this blog, you will find tools to help you beat OCD for good. I will be here to help you along the way, so feel free to email me; I’ve been where you are now and I know the desperate feelings you are feeling when an OCD attack comes on.

I will try to cover all kinds of different scenarios that come up with OCD. I have had a lot of different experiences, as you probably too have; because we know OCD switches up its game from time to time.
Just as you can't expect to lose 50 pounds on a diet pill in one day, you also can't expect to rid yourself of OCD in one day either. Keep at it though and you WILL succeed!

Stay tuned.