I had OCD my doctor said we get alot like you those who engage in a lot of hand washing. In the end I was basically living in the bathroom till one day I chose to forcefully ignore the urges. The anxiety was bad but I continually kept at it. When I didn't cave in the anxiety lessened and then completely disappeared. Now I only wash hands normally like after I've been to the loo or before eating food.
Its a chronic condition from what I know. It stays with you for years or even for life. You can take things that lessen the symptoms but it'll still be there
I'm going to ask my therapist to up my sertraline dosage to see if it'll work. But I'm not very hopeful
i try to search it up online for it, but nothing is helping they're just letting me know it's not real and stuff like that
neuroplacisity proves this false, anything mind related is always a mountain to climb but to claim an OCD mind can't be improved or trained is defeatist and not true.
That is true. Science has not reached a point to treat 100% of these disorders but there is evidence that neurons can form new connections and mental disorders be improved a lot. It is not like losing your limbs or destroying your spine that cannot really heal
Yeah i mean buddhists have been doing this for thousands of years but the arrogant west is only just starting to catch up and as usual acts like its ahead, the real issue is westerners are conditioned to want immediate fixes and pills to fix them when in reality it takes a lot of work and time for legitimate recovery.
You can't act like neurons just magically rearrange themselves. There are ways to do this but it takes tons of effort and time for only a chance at improvement. There's also a chance that I get worse even while going through treatment. There's also the fact that people have perfectly okay lives but still end up killing themselves. Even if this one aspect of someone's life can be improved doesn't make their life worth living. There are tons of other factors.
