How to Prepare for OCD Triggers

[@jokerski3250]

OCD is cunning baffling and powerful. It’s like a switch that gets flipped and we aren’t even aware it’s on a lot of the time. Learning to love with uncertainty and anxiety is how we experience recovery.

[@jokerski3250]

OCD is a multiple faceted issue. Where the brain throws up ideas and images that scare you. Then the brain starts trying to associate the idea and or image etc as meaningful to our persons. This creates a massive spike in anxiety, guilt, shame, confusion etc. we then try to undo the feelings by compulsively trying to disprove the ideas from being true. We want to eliminate the perceived threat. The perception of threat has many many faces. Anything that we hold as important can and will be threatened. Looking for certainty to eliminate these threats only reenforces to the brain that we need to make sure that’s things don’t happen or aren’t true. She is exactly right in that recovery from ocd completely hinges on my willingness to live with uncertainty and my willingness to experience anxiety. It’s not easy but it is the solution.

[@eeor]

Like anything it requires practice. A switch was flipped and recovery is possible!

[@jokerski3250]

@@eeor completely agree. I know for a fact that it is. Thanks for the post.

[@AstroBethTeal]

Yes last night I had so much anxiety because I connected so many subtypes and it gave me so much guilt and anxiety I feel like a bad person

[@eversunnyguy]

Irrelevance is the anti-dote for OCD.

[@jokerski3250]

Yes treating anxiety as irrelevant is in fact a big part of the solution.

[@6hZCBpMy]

Thanks for this AWESOME video!

[@IOCDF]

Thank you so much for watching!