Comments on: I Beat OCD!!! http://howiwascured.com/mental/beat-ocd/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:14:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Hayley http://howiwascured.com/mental/beat-ocd/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Hayley Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:54 +0000 http://howiwascured.com/?p=416#comment-36 But there was no "confronting" of the root fear. I honestly don't know why I was so messed up. All I know is that I'm basically cured now. That's all I care about. But there was no “confronting” of the root fear. I honestly don’t know why I was so messed up. All I know is that I’m basically cured now. That’s all I care about.

]]> By: Hayley http://howiwascured.com/mental/beat-ocd/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Hayley Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:00 +0000 http://howiwascured.com/?p=416#comment-35 This sounds like a fabulous technique. I don't really know how, but after years of suffering, I managed to defeat my OCD, without even trying. I never took drugs or anything for it, even though it was suggested by the shrink who diagnosed me with barely-under-severe OCD. Even when I was a little kid, I would spend hours stacking spices in the proper way on the kitchen floor, making sure all the labels faced me perfectly. And for the longest time, my disease wouldn't let me touch cash or coins. It was extremely crippling, to say the least, and no one knows quite how crippling that is unless they've experienced it themselves or were very involved with the one experiencing it (my mother knows very well how crippling it was, since she always had to be careful with it). But somehow, I don't know how, but somehow, I beat it. I didn't touch money for probably eight months. And then when a quarter fell out of a chair, on a whim, I picked it up, and I felt nothing. No film creeping up my fingers and hands and arms overwhelming me with claustraphobia, nothing. I was elated. And then a few days later, at my birthday party, my hand brushed against a one dollar bill in a friend's bag. I realized that nothing happened. FREAKING out, I grabbed the dollar and ran rushing through the house showing everybody. I was so excited. I haven't had an "episode" for about ten months now, and I feel amazing. :] This sounds like a fabulous technique. I don’t really know how, but after years of suffering, I managed to defeat my OCD, without even trying. I never took drugs or anything for it, even though it was suggested by the shrink who diagnosed me with barely-under-severe OCD. Even when I was a little kid, I would spend hours stacking spices in the proper way on the kitchen floor, making sure all the labels faced me perfectly. And for the longest time, my disease wouldn’t let me touch cash or coins. It was extremely crippling, to say the least, and no one knows quite how crippling that is unless they’ve experienced it themselves or were very involved with the one experiencing it (my mother knows very well how crippling it was, since she always had to be careful with it).

But somehow, I don’t know how, but somehow, I beat it. I didn’t touch money for probably eight months. And then when a quarter fell out of a chair, on a whim, I picked it up, and I felt nothing. No film creeping up my fingers and hands and arms overwhelming me with claustraphobia, nothing. I was elated. And then a few days later, at my birthday party, my hand brushed against a one dollar bill in a friend’s bag. I realized that nothing happened. FREAKING out, I grabbed the dollar and ran rushing through the house showing everybody. I was so excited.

I haven’t had an “episode” for about ten months now, and I feel amazing. :]

]]> By: Elizabeth http://howiwascured.com/mental/beat-ocd/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Elizabeth Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:05:57 +0000 http://howiwascured.com/?p=416#comment-12 It is very hard to live with OCD. Congratulations on overcoming this horrible sickness. It is very hard to live with OCD. Congratulations on overcoming this horrible sickness.

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