Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
OCD and radical acceptance are two things I talked about with therapist this morning.
OCD-she said to say to myself-It's OCD-Not me
Meaning that instead of beating myself up about it, and then getting distracted by those thoughts which then makes me have to start over again on the rituals of OCD, the pattern in my mind that I have to do, is to instead realize that it IS, but it is NOT me. Then she said to TRY to check things once thoroughly, then let it go.
I have always checked my door locks and stove tops (hey that sounds like a rhyme of a poem on OCD!)
Door locks
stove tops
knock-block
tick tock
ANYWAY.............enough of that
Lately I have been checking the washer after I take out clothes, and running my hand around inside and saying to myself.......it's empty
OR at work I will close one eye and put my finger on my name, and trace along line to the times I start, and finish, and to my signature-people at work commented on why do I do that?
UH.....OCD?
I think I am feeling stressed over a job plan that I am going to work on with my work caseworker and my division of vocational rehab counselor
Radical acceptance-
(Letting go of fighting reality. Accept your situation for what it is..)
She said that I cannot change some things, that I can choose to be stressed or to go with the flow-that to me is a radical idea! I can choose NOT to stress?
The definition above says it all-LET GO-ACCEPT-DON'T FIGHT IT
I really like my therapist, I feel hope when I talk with her
OCD-she said to say to myself-It's OCD-Not me
Meaning that instead of beating myself up about it, and then getting distracted by those thoughts which then makes me have to start over again on the rituals of OCD, the pattern in my mind that I have to do, is to instead realize that it IS, but it is NOT me. Then she said to TRY to check things once thoroughly, then let it go.
I have always checked my door locks and stove tops (hey that sounds like a rhyme of a poem on OCD!)
Door locks
stove tops
knock-block
tick tock
ANYWAY.............enough of that
Lately I have been checking the washer after I take out clothes, and running my hand around inside and saying to myself.......it's empty
OR at work I will close one eye and put my finger on my name, and trace along line to the times I start, and finish, and to my signature-people at work commented on why do I do that?
UH.....OCD?
I think I am feeling stressed over a job plan that I am going to work on with my work caseworker and my division of vocational rehab counselor
Radical acceptance-
(Letting go of fighting reality. Accept your situation for what it is..)
She said that I cannot change some things, that I can choose to be stressed or to go with the flow-that to me is a radical idea! I can choose NOT to stress?
The definition above says it all-LET GO-ACCEPT-DON'T FIGHT IT
I really like my therapist, I feel hope when I talk with her
Bless you gals! Y'all ARE ca RAY zee!
That must be rough. I don't have those problems. That has to be FRUSTRATING! I can't get laundry done WITHOUT those annoying habits. Geez....I can't imagine adding time for that too. :)
Ditto on the therapist....sounds like a good one.