keep up the good work guys, god bless you all.
and jesus = he is a good thing. believe!
>>��I guess you won't read this, HyperFocus. But if you do, I just wanted to say thank you for an excellent post and good luck in continuing to get better. It sounds like it didn't take you that long to figure out the right way to go. Excellent stuff.
>>��I come to this board mainly to help people now. Once I did it to reassure myself, but I guess I don't feel the need for reassurance that much any more. I have other things in my life at the moment (exams, planning my future, a relationship-problem, etc.), things that are REAL enough for me not to have too much time for this terrible and ridiculous disorder. You are so, so right when you say that real life, and just going through your day, is the right thing to do. It took me a long time - much longer than you - to figure this out, and I find that whenever I just let go of this thing (and sometimes it's hard), I get better. Life, with all its up and downs, its beauty and horror, is so much better than being in the OCD dungeon. I never realised how beautiful it could be to actually have real-life problems. That may sound weird, but at least you're alive, going down some path, feeling the wind blow through your hair. And that is better than being locked in with OCD.
>>��As I said, I have real issues to deal with, the most painful being that my relationship to my girlfriend is not going so well (incidentally, that has nothing to do with OCD). But painful as that may be, I'd rather have to deal with that than with HOCD. A little bit of reality is better than a mountain of imagination. As for the sex thing, I never compulsively masturbated, but the stress at the moment has quite naturally reduced my libido from its usual (rather intense) heights. In a way I almost like it - it makes me more aggressive, more assertive, more alive. Nothing wrong with masturbation, of course - but without it, I can feel an almost joyous anger at what OCD did to my life for several years. I am all gung-ho to change things, and I guess you feel something similar. On my part, there will no longer be fearful cowering in the face of this monster. I will attack it, I am attacking it, and I can feel it retreating. I will not play its games any more - I can't win those games. I will come up with my own ways of dealing with it.
>>��And for everyone else with HOCD, or any form of OCD, please believe HyperFocus. He is turning his back on this thing, and that is the right thing to do. It IS a choice whether to obsess or not. It IS a choice whether to look for reassurance or not. It's hard, and sometimes I am still sucked in (I am after all a loyal customer of google.com), but it can be resisted and - more importantly - ignored. OCD says nothing; it teaches us nothing. It does not have to be dealt with. We are free, all of us, and all we need is to see that.
>>��Enough ranting. Thanks again, HyperFocus, and good luck.
>>��Straitye