It'll Get Better, ....

PURE-O, HARM-O, OCD, Anxiety and everything else in between. From everything that I read, the content doesn't matter. What matter's is how WE react to it. So for two days, I've been feeling like my "normal" self, Praise Jesus Christ, but I'm staying on top of it, per se, and by that, I'm reading up on how OCD/HARM-O/PURE-O/Anxiety works. I think it's important that when once of us are feeling better, we post about it, because now we are viewing this junk from a totally different perspective. It's REALLY hard to do that when you are going through it. BUT we are not victims of this. No longer. Today we all take a stand, brush ourselves off, face the enemy together and work to beat it together. That means letting the thoughts BE. Engaging with it without the compulsions, the seeking out 1,000,000% Insurance that what we are thinking, or scared about WILL OR WONT happen. We move forward with confidence that we will not be bullied any longer on the OCD playground. That by letting go and accepting our GREATEST FEAR; UNCERTAINTY WE WIN. I am grateful that I can write this today and I feel it is very necessary to share, because I feel for each and every one of you and your OCD "theme", but in the end it's ALL THE SAME crap. A mis-firing of the amygdala, that's it, nothing more, nothing less. This is from Ph.D readings, not me. decades of research. IF I haven't stated, these two books are SUPER helpful:
Overcoming Harm OCD AND Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts. I'm still seeing *mod edit* to have the best tools available, because I know it'll come back but at least we can identify what it is, what triggers it (for the most part) and how to "manage" it. Best of luck to each and every one of you. And I really shouldn't say "best of "luck"... you don't need luck, you got this. It's time. Let's go.