Ocd Motivational Quotes

Don’t tell me you have OCD about this?” “OCD, ADHD—pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I’d have it.

I built an idea in my head of the hero I wanted to be, a grab bag of traits from heroes, villains, and side characters. I did not have book role models, I had book blueprints. But there remained a huge gap between the person I wanted to be and the person who I was. This was because no matter how many book blueprints I had, as much as I wanted to make myself the hero of my own life, it didn’t matter as long as I kept telling the story wrong. Nowadays, as a storyteller, I know what the problem was. I had all the elements I needed to tell a good story. But I was telling it the wrong way, so I could never get to the ending I wanted. If you tell yourself you’re a winner, you know what kind of story you’re telling, and you will march toward that... Likewise, if you tell yourself you’re a loser, you’ve made that your story, and you will march toward that instead. The same setbacks could happen in the loser’s story as in the winner’s story, but the self-defined loser would let them be proof that they were never going to be anything. Here’s the story I was telling myself back when I was little edible child waiting to be carried away by hawks and making OCD rituals for herself: once upon a time, there was a girl who was afraid of everything. When I was 16, I realized that I knew what this story looked like and how it ended, and it wasn’t the life I wanted for myself. If I wanted my ending to look different, I needed to change the kind of story I was telling about myself. I needed to shape my events into a different genre: once upon a time, there was a woman who was afraid of nothing. At age 16, I legally changed my name from my birthname — Heidi — to one I thought sounded like the hero I wanted to be: Maggie. And I vowed that I would never be afraid of anything ever again. Did it work? No, of course not. Not right away. But it became a mission statement, my hero’s journey.

Motivational Speakers", once they had more fear, stress and depression than you...but they fought and conquered.

Many people assume that anxious children are meek or always compliant. This is far from the truth. Children with anxiety or OCD can be just as aggressive as any other child, and with the proper motivation, they will pull out all the stops to achieve what they want. Nothing motivates an anxious child like the need to ensure ongoing accommodation by parents. In a survey of experts in the treatment of OCD, for example, we found that 75% described their young patients as being coercive and forceful in their demands for accommodation. Physical violence, verbal aggression, breaking things, and other forms of disruptive behavior were commonly reported. It is best not to think of this as bad behavior, and it does not signal a negative character trait in the child. If your child becomes aggressive when you do not accommodate, that probably means that she believes she cannot cope without the accommodation. It also might indicate that these kinds of behaviors have worked successfully in the past, in getting you to accommodate