There’s two types of Coasters-. 1) Hasn’t got the energy to work on recovery, never takes steps to recover and thinks what’s the point. 2) Wants to start but always says “tomorrow” “next month I’ll start.”. Either one is as bad as each other.

You’re most likely gaming and scrolling more than you’d like to escape feeling bad. This quickly becomes compulsive, and sooner than later you’re sitting in a dimly lit room gaming most of the day with breaks to scroll and eat junk food.

Recovery is for you, nobody else. Therefore you’ve got to want this.

Anybody who tells you “Have you tried just not thinking about it” has zero idea how OCD operates at all. Kid with asthma.🗣️ “Just breathe.”.

Nobody remembers the past perfectly and then recovers.

OCD recovery requires an attitude of I’m going to recover no matter what.

When you’ve been stuck for years and finally make it to your first appointment to get better from OCD:. 🗣️ Have you tried telling yourself it’s just a thought…”

There will be a time along your recovery journey where you look back at the layers of stuck that kept you prisoner as quite irrelevant to you. You will have shed layers of the old internal control for new development, and empowerment!.

When you recover your mind feels at peace, guilt and anxiety have gone, but of course anxiety is still there for your survival but can be called upon in an emergency. There is no longer a mental struggle, you don’t know what to do with the additional mental energy + freedom,.

Chronic guilt is a self defeating loop that is never necessary no matter what you think you’ve done in the past.

Nobody woke up and severe OCD was just gone one morning, that’s not how it works!. You’ve got to work at recovery to train the brain to see it differently, then feel it differently, then baseline peace is restored as default once again.

You won’t be able to just forget OCD and go about your life with severe chronic OCD. That’s like running on a recently broken leg with a mind over matter approach.

Never seen a case of someone with severe chronic OCD fully recover with mindfulness principles alone.

🗣️ “Everything happens for a reason…”. When you have Magical Thinking OCD:

You can’t control your way out of OCD, that’s part of why you are stuck.

Breathing OCD will feel like something has gone wrong with your breathing neurologically. You’ll be convinced you’ll never breathe calmly again. The breathing sensation feels laboured, aggravated, short, and you’ll feel like you are suffering in silence.

People who post “I don’t care” usually care the most. They care enough to post it.

Someone with chronic OCD’s dream is just to have a break from the chronic. We tend to take inner peace for granted in general, I certainly did before OCD struck.

OCD can find ways around exposures, if all you hear is “You need to do more exposures” and you’ve done all that you are set & you are still stuck, you need to work on acceptance. Most understand very little about acceptance.