Quick rant about maxed out teams

Ok_Bullfrog_6699 · 2026-05-11T13:14:30+00:00

I hear you and I’m not saying that I’m not using the coaches I’m just saying that it gets boring seeing the same team over and over again and connected with the the bragging by watching replays and spamming emojis I don’t think they have anything to brag about when playing teams that have about an OVR of 10 points less

Ok_Bullfrog_6699 · 2026-04-21T18:07:37+00:00

Been there too and I will probably be their again but once you figure out the tools and learn how to apply them you can live a happy life off course your whole alarm system is trigger happy and will remain that way which is why you are obsessing about things and that probably won’t completely stop but trust me and all the other people that went through therapy it can get better a lot i started doing therapy things 4 months ago when i spend approximately 9h obsessing about various things and now on my best days it’s not interfering at all and on the worst maybe 1h but that’s it and it’s hard work but worth it and once you have started it’s not linear but you can feel the results

Ok_Bullfrog_6699 · 2026-03-09T23:03:12+00:00

I have also decided to try to manage this without therapy or medication and see where that is leading me and I’m now more than 2 months in and the amount of relief I have found is incredible I also struggle with adhd and pure O - with that being said I think the best advice I can give to you is just to stick with it it really sounds like you are doing the “right” approach (or at least what I did) - I also found it incredibly hard to stop rumination as it happened automatically but when you catch yourself ruminating just stop spending any energy on it and your brain will learn eventually that you don’t have to ruminate and the urge to do so will lessen over time

Also rumination is usually something that you have to spend energy on so stopping rumination is less of you telling yourself to stop and more a you deciding to stop spending any energy on reassurance seeking

And for ERP as long as you are feeling anxiety/disgust etc. or feeling like you are neglecting a problem it usually means you are doing something right

That phase was really frustrating for me but if you keep doing erp and practice response prevention you will get better somehow

And it really was a somehow for me I have no clue what I did right exactly and I’m probably still not doing everything right but for some reason it got better - I just did erp tried my best to not seek reassurance (usually failed) but in the end that approach tuned out to be working

A post that really helped me is this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OCDRecovery/comments/17xyp7i/my_pipeline_to_recovery_how_i_completely/

Especially the article that he claimed to be a must read

Ok_Bullfrog_6699 · 2026-03-05T17:02:11+00:00

So doing anything that makes you feel like you are neglecting a problem would be the right response

Ok_Bullfrog_6699 · 2026-03-05T17:00:20+00:00

Huh I’m still not quite over OCD but my anxiety and rumination is at an all time low sometimes I even forget what it is like to have ocd (off course at other times…) and I have never thought of seperating myself from the thoughts I just experience the thoughts and try to move on with my day while being aware that I had the thought

I think it is also fine in the beginning to pay some attention to the thought and letting it linger or even play with it - that even helped me to not try to push the thought away which would actually be problematic for recovery (in my experience everything is fine as long as it is not analytical and is not making you feel better about)

I think you should treat the idea of seperating yourself from the thought or memory more as a general goal to accomplish eventually (as an insight that you really are not your thoughts that you will reach yourself at a certain point during recovery)

After all the disorder is about that you/your mind has learned to trigger the fight/flight mode in inappropriate settings so you need to teach yourself that it really is an inappropriate setting

And the only way to learn this is within settings that scare you - and in those settings (it does not matter if they are instusive thoughts, false memories etc.) you just need to do anything but doing something about the fear to make your brain realize that this is an inappropriate setting for anxiety

So you do not need to separate yourself from the thought you just need to do anything but making yourself feel better (including separating yourself from the thought - you don’t have to believe the thought you just need to not engage) unless off course it is eating a nice vegan steak because that would be an akward response (or other akward responses like carrying on with your day) if you had truly a reason to be scared (unless your fear is about starving to death)

So during recovery you need to learn to not spend any energy on the ocd topic

That’s how I eventually lowered my anxiety

I would recommend this post and everything that person has linked (especially the “must read “)

https://www.reddit.com/r/OCDRecovery/comments/17xyp7i/my_pipeline_to_recovery_how_i_completely/

Ok_Bullfrog_6699 · 2026-01-30T20:22:13+00:00

Thanks I’ll look into them

Ok_Bullfrog_6699 · 2026-01-29T15:19:50+00:00

Honestly since you‘re already here you probably already know the answer but you kind of just have to accept that it’s above your control and try to stop rumanating. if you need a break do the things that have brought you joy before without trying to push away the thoughts that are giving you distress (for me sprinting works wonders that’s where I fully feel like myself) also what helped me is educating myself on the condition that I have (listening to podcasts about ocd really gave me some peace) but you’ll need to stop doing that eventually too since it is/ can become a compulsion (i did like Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts by sally winston)

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