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This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.
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Norah Vincent
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Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told.
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Charles Linden (The Linden Method: The Anxiety and Panic Attacks Elimination Solution)
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The tight ball of muck inside me—I opened it. I opened the shame, and it crumbled next to yours. This connection—the one I didn’t think we were going to have—let some of my muck go. And when it left my body, it evaporated into nothing. It had been living in me, but as soon as it was exposed, it disappeared.
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Ashley Marie Berry (Separate Things: A Memoir)
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I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without thinking they were going to attack me and drag me into their cars. I went to doctors’ offices and touched magazines that had been touched by sick people.
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Ännä White (Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith)
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you will come to recognize that having OCD was never your fault and that if you put any human being in your exact situation, they would respond in exactly the way you have in the past.
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Kimberley Quinlan (The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD: Lean into Your Fear, Manage Difficult Emotions, and Focus On Recovery)
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your obsessions and compulsions are in no way a reflection of your intelligence, worth, or strength and that criticizing yourself makes the O-C cycle stronger and slows down recovery.
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Kimberley Quinlan (The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD: Lean into Your Fear, Manage Difficult Emotions, and Focus On Recovery)
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In addition, because compulsions provide short-term relief from anxiety, they reinforce the obsession’s perceived validity. Each time you respond to an obsession with a compulsion, you confirm the belief that the fear is “dangerous” and repetitively set off the FFF response. Ironically, when you perform a compulsion, you are also more likely to experience the return of that obsession, because the compulsion is a reminder of the obsession itself.
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Kimberley Quinlan (The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD: Lean into Your Fear, Manage Difficult Emotions, and Focus On Recovery)
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One of the great breakthroughs in my own recovery was coming to understand that, while I can’t rid myself of the nagging “what if” questions that plague me, I can choose not to give them my attention.
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Jeff Bell (When in Doubt, Make Belief: An OCD-Inspired Approach to Living with Uncertainty)
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Better isn't always a feeling.
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starbeyy (frankenstein's monster)