no problem. im glad to help. continue to be strong and fight the ocd. eventually just learn to ignore ocd. dont even give an unlogical obsession a second thought. glad i could help.
Thanks a lot for the advice. For the past couple of days I've been trying to not worry about germs, ocd and stuff. I've also been prescribed medicines to help me overcome it, but I've decided that I wanted to get over this whole obsession thing on my own. I've definitely been doing some of the things you suggested, such as trying to be logical and tell myself that nothing bad is going to happen.
you have to stand up to ocd to help it, ive been diagnosed with ocd, the best thing to do is to realize that your thoughts are not logical, i had an obsession with unlucky numbers, i had to scratch out certain numbers that i wrote to keep something bad from happening, but now i write those numbers down and dont scribble them out, and i tell myself that nothing bad is going to happen from me writing a number down. Just tell yourself that ocd is causing u to think this way, when you feel u need to wash ur hands, dont wash them. tell yourself its ocd and that your not going to catch anything by not washing your hands, of course you will probably stress out over it because of the ocd, but dont give in to it, eventually the stress will leave. and it will probably come back but just keep telling yourself that your thoughts are unreasonable and that its the ocd and dont act on what your obsessing over. after you act on it, the obsession is coming back anyway.
That program sounds interesting. And in only two months? That's amazing. Do you know if that kind of program is at many different hospitals or just your local one?
Hey i don't know the answers to your questions, but i do kow exactly how you feel. I too, have OCD and it has gotten really bad lately, just like you i have to wash my hands several times a day which causes cuts. And i freak out that im going to getseveral diffrent diseaes,. I recently went to my local hospital and did the HOPE139 program. It tells you if your brain overthinks things, or underthinks things, or is right on track. I n my case, i overthink things and my brain is really stressed. Anyways then you bascially exercise your brain, and in about two months, you should be right on track. Anyways, i hope you look into it, just google it or something to find out more informatin.