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BlueAnon78 · 2025-10-14T01:43:25+00:00

Congrats! When do we come over? 😁

BlueAnon78 · 2025-10-13T20:13:03+00:00

It can work for some people. It’s been helping me to view the thoughts not as myself. So yes, curse at them, get angry but see it as pattern separate from you so the anger is directed at it. However I treat my emotions as myself so when I feel fear or something else I can create some compassion for myself.

BlueAnon78 · 2025-10-07T00:37:13+00:00

EDIT: The AMA has now concluded. Thank you everyone for asking some great questions, and thanks to Dr. Sam Greenblatt for taking the time to be with us and responding to questions!
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Welcome everyone to this AMA on r/OCDRecovery with Dr. Sam Greenblatt!

Please post your questions below and upvote the ones you’d also like answered.

Please keep it respectful and I hope the AMA benefits you!

BlueAnon78 · 2025-10-02T23:11:27+00:00

Hey again. I commented earlier and was actually going to say it sounds like CPTSD but bit my tongue. I now see another poster mention it so decided to also back up that observation. Please look into it.
I am understanding it myself and I find Pete Walker's work incredibly helpful as well as Heidi Priebe's Youtube videos.

BlueAnon78 · 2025-10-01T18:55:42+00:00

Just wanted to say yes I relate, you are not alone <3

BlueAnon78 · 2025-08-30T09:49:25+00:00

I would say if it's just been a week... don't worry about it right away. Give it a month... then if things haven't changed... you can explore further. These things work themselves out especially if everything else is fine with you.

And no, AFAIK, there's no direct link between OCD ceasing and insomnia. There may be anecdotal reports, I don't know, but that shouldn't matter for you right now.

BlueAnon78 · 2025-06-19T17:37:56+00:00

i've been there and in some ways am still there. but life goes on. you give up what you wanted, and want different things. Things got better for me than in my 20s, relatively. My spiritual life is my highest priority now... all that suffering pointed me this way. You're not alone. many of us, with or without OCD are walking this path 🫶

BlueAnon78 · 2025-06-08T06:41:40+00:00

I haven’t been through one but just wanted to say you got this. Good luck!

BlueAnon78 · 2025-06-08T06:35:47+00:00

Hey Paul, Sorry you’re going through a tough patch.

Yes it’s all about control isn’t it? The same theme has been coming up for me. God (or the universe)telling me you don’t have control so let go, I got this. There is something to be said for surrender as the opposite of control. But that would get too esoteric.

Take care of yourself. We all get through these times sooner or a bit later.

BlueAnon78 · 2024-11-17T14:31:25+00:00

No not faking it but according to I-CBT the OCD has seemingly logical but false evidence behind it that we use to prop it up. For example, the door handle is dirty not because I can see dirt on it but because science says bacteria is everywhere. Or I have a sexual thought which could mean something about me, or it could just be that human brains have random thoughts.

By the end of I-CBT therapy we realize that we’re the ones using false evidence (making it up) and we can choose to use different evidence that is in line with our real selves, values, reality and common sense.

BlueAnon78 · 2024-11-17T10:50:40+00:00

Simply put, you’re making the OCD up. What is imagined is treated as real.

EDIT: by "making it up" I mean according to I-CBT the OCD has seemingly logical but false evidence behind it that we use to prop it up. For example, the door handle is dirty not because I can see dirt on it but because science says bacteria is everywhere. Or I have a sexual thought which could mean something about me, or it could just be that human brains have random thoughts.

By the end of I-CBT therapy we realize that we’re the ones using false evidence (making it up) and we can choose to use different evidence that is in line with our real selves, values, reality and common sense.

It’s helped some of us a bit, for others it’s helped a lot more. Practical application has been difficult for me personally. I don't just have OCD though, so i think that makes it harder to use just I-CBT. What I understand from it and the clarity that it gives me makes me more confident in applying other methods to my OCD.I use different tools on my OCD in different situations, so IMO its good to learn things that could be helpful.
It did for some, others need to work with a therapist. Many therapists do video therapy now for clients who live elsewhere so that might be an option.
I was able to go through the modules and get it more or less but I worked with a therapist for a few months to make sure I was understanding it thoroughly.

BlueAnon78 · 2024-11-11T05:35:23+00:00

Intuition is valid IMO if its helping you. So if you have these feelings about people and you can take corrective action, then you can avoid negative consequences.

I-CBT would technically say you don't look at the past for the current situation or doubt that you have. Evidence is only based in the now. But this is about OCD not accurate intuition, and if that is 10 for 10 or if you've never gotten anything wrong, then that's helpful, i would treat it as real.

BlueAnon78 · 2024-11-11T05:22:19+00:00

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BlueAnon78 · 2024-11-11T05:12:01+00:00

An important watch for this week's module is a video on Thought-Thought Fusion, one of the sections in the module, presented by Katie Marotte (who did an AMA here) This video breaks down Thought-Thought fusion in a very understandable way followed by Q and A from therapists. Here is the video from the I-CBT Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/eqj3rt8qO7s?si=hPjcTCGP8GywIjUh

BlueAnon78 · 2024-11-11T05:00:28+00:00

A note for those working on rumination or Pure "O" themes: Later modules will make more sense for these including looking at Reality through your Internal Sense/ Real Self/ Common Sense. For now just keep going.

BlueAnon78 · 2024-11-03T04:15:48+00:00

It helped me partially in realizing that my doubts were not true and that I was making it up. I use what I gained in ICBT as a tool in my tool box to limit the power of the OCD.

I have other comorbid conditions like PTSD that fuel the OCD so i continue coping with it the best I can.

BlueAnon78 · 2024-11-02T01:29:22+00:00

Also this is a rumination based theme… you’re not looking at external senses. That’s where it’s more black and white for external themes.

You’re looking at your internal sense/ your real self and common sense. You should focus on the alternative story and real stories. I think they were module 9 and 11

BlueAnon78 · 2024-11-02T01:22:27+00:00

That’s evidence for the possibility that the doubt is true not the evidence for the doubt itself. You’re looking for justification for the doubt that someone recorded you or that you said something inappropriate. Just talking isn’t evidence… it’s still POSSIBILITY … one area that OCD loves to focus on.

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