obsessive thoughts ruining my life

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:29 pm

Try repeating this: od has not given us the spirit of fear, but of Love Power and a sound mind. (just say it over and over and over .......

ALso Phillippians:8 helps me to control my thoughts: look i up but it goes somethign like this "Whatsoevr things are , pure, whatsoever things are lovely. whatsoevr things sre of a Goood report, if there be any virtue if there be any praise.......THINK ON THESE THINGS!

Devark73 · Post by **Devark73** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:30 pm

RPLY TO ABOVE POST

GOD HAS NOT GIVEN.....
aLSO THE SCRIPTURE IS pHILLIPIANS 4:8

sleeplessMom · Post by **sleeplessMom** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:11 pm

Put your energy into following the program. The relation tapes will help you a lot. Try an exercise I was taught which is write 10 Good Things about today, do that everyday. Write in a journal.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:13 am

hello
back when my ocd was all consumeing i read somewhere that if you put a rubberband on your wrist and every time a bad thought comes snap it. the first day i tried i ended up with a whelt on my wrist. but i tried it. and soon thoughts came further and further apart. another thing is i lost the fear of the thoughts. that was the biggest step. that was when i ordered the tapes for this program. i don't remember what i heard in those tapes but on that day i lost the fear. i have bouts of ocd from time to time as well as anxiety, but nothing like it was at first.

when i was at my worse my kids were young. i found out if i sang ---the wheels on the bus go round and round the thoughts could'nt get thur. how i hate that song today. my grandson is 2 and he's just learning this song.

those days were awful. i felt just like you. do this program, know you're not alone, you're not crazy. and good luck

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:29 pm

Thanks for all your kind words. My ocd is so atypical... all in my head. There is an article I found called Obsessing about Obsessing by Jonathon Grayson. (google it_ I showed it to my dr and she has been telling me that my ritual is wishing my obsessing would go away so now I have made a tape with the words "joy" every 2 minutes and I'm supposed to make whatever I'm doing more pleasurable rather than focusing on the obsession. It's very hard to do and I need to have the tape going during most of my day. I hope it works. Check out the article that I mentioned above. I am unable to take SSRIs at this point. Wish I could. I'm on too many meds.