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Words of Support for OCD/ Anxiety sufferers
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23-01-2018
02:01 PM
To my fellow sufferers,
I understand and sympathise with the pain and torment you go through on a daily, weekly basis, sometimes it feels neverending.
Every time I go to the internet I wish I could find this message because
I always go searching for answers and nothing I find truly helps.
So I hope this finds you and that it may help even if it's only for a second.
You are not crazy. You are not going crazy. You will never truly go crazy even though it may feel that way sometimes.
You are not alone. This is not just happening to you. So many people feel and think the way you do.
Those things you think might happen, the things you think you might say or do, are not going to happen.
Just because you think them does not make them true.
I cannot guarantee that they will 100% not happen but I can guarantee the terrible or fighting things you sometimes think will not happen by your doing.
They are obsessions for a reason and that's because they strike fear inside you.
Fear= something you do not want to happen not something you desire.
Therefore even if your thoughts tell you otherwise these things go against your values, your wants and your desires they are not what you seek out for in life.
You are probably more moral, more aware, more in touch and more loving than most people in society.
Yet it's hard to think that way I know.
I want you to know you are loved and accepted and nothing you say to me that you think will ever scare me away because I guarantee you I've thought it to.
We will get through this you and I.
We may need extra help and support and time.
But there is always light and love at the end of the tunnel I promise.
I understand and sympathise with the pain and torment you go through on a daily, weekly basis, sometimes it feels neverending.
Every time I go to the internet I wish I could find this message because
I always go searching for answers and nothing I find truly helps.
So I hope this finds you and that it may help even if it's only for a second.
You are not crazy. You are not going crazy. You will never truly go crazy even though it may feel that way sometimes.
You are not alone. This is not just happening to you. So many people feel and think the way you do.
Those things you think might happen, the things you think you might say or do, are not going to happen.
Just because you think them does not make them true.
I cannot guarantee that they will 100% not happen but I can guarantee the terrible or fighting things you sometimes think will not happen by your doing.
They are obsessions for a reason and that's because they strike fear inside you.
Fear= something you do not want to happen not something you desire.
Therefore even if your thoughts tell you otherwise these things go against your values, your wants and your desires they are not what you seek out for in life.
You are probably more moral, more aware, more in touch and more loving than most people in society.
Yet it's hard to think that way I know.
I want you to know you are loved and accepted and nothing you say to me that you think will ever scare me away because I guarantee you I've thought it to.
We will get through this you and I.
We may need extra help and support and time.
But there is always light and love at the end of the tunnel I promise.
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23-01-2018
02:07 PM
Thanks Mimi.
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23-01-2018
02:17 PM
Love this, thankyou for posting this
so many days I feel like I'm going crazy
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