What helped you?

[anxious_thoughts]

I suffer from pure-O thoughts. Right now, they have focused on a suicide obsession, which is really annoying and it disturbs me more than any other thought. But I try to remember that it's just OCD and to trust myself; OCD is just hard because you question your true self.

So, what helped you lessen your obsessive thoughts?

 

[LovesTheLord4Life]

I don't know who this question is specifically addressed to but hopefully my answer will help you out. Basically, I realized that accepting the impulses (the obsessive thoughts) rather than pushing them away (giving in to the compulsions) is the first step towards recovery. There are many additional techniques I use, one of my favourites being singing a melody or tune about the specific obsessive thought to myself in my head. This tells my brain that I'm not afraid or disturbed by the thought, and thus reduces the paradoxcial effect of the obsessions and compulsions. Also, repeating the disturbing thought to yourself is another way.

 

[tripletiger1200]

Prayer first of all. God can help you way more than anything else. Also, something that has worked for me is to take fish oil and vitamins, specifically b vitamins and a multivitamin. The one bad thing to do is to fight the thoughts, because that almost always makes it worse, or at least that has been my experience.