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Beth
Member

Tip 59: Go to Zumba classes. It is very energetic. I find this helps with my intrusive thoughts.

Mon Oct 17 2011 16:14:09 #
Beth
Member

Tip 60: Mindful meditation, try and be aware of what is going on around you, the weather, the noises, the traffic, scenery. Are your feet and bottom relaxed, this grounds you. If you are into photography, look around, will that make a good photo etc. Try and get outside of your mind.

Mon Oct 17 2011 16:20:09 #
playthoseblues
Member

Tip 61: OCD likes to play many tricks on us! Doubt is one of them!

Wed Nov 2 2011 21:03:42 #
Tess
Member

Tip 62: Make contact with others with OCD and gain emotional strength from each other.

Thu Nov 3 2011 10:50:38 #
Nimrod
Key Master

Tip 63: Go to the OCD Action conference on 26th November
http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/ocd-action%e2%80%99s-conference-and-agm-2011#post-59489

Thu Nov 3 2011 11:21:27 #
Nimrod
Key Master

Tip 64:
Consider carefully your new year's resolutions

Mon Dec 19 2011 23:58:13 #
njb
Member

TIP 65 - tell people.

I have started doing this after having this since about 8 and im 39.

It may help educate the world bit by bit.

It may also let you realise that some of the battle is the isolation.

X

Tue Dec 20 2011 11:08:19 #
slogsweep
Member

Tip 66:

Never try and research your obsessions online. It will reinforce them and make things a million times worse. In tough times stick to safe havens like OCD Action.

Tue Dec 20 2011 14:20:47 #
Twitchy
Member

Force yourself to sing,the more up abeat music the better.

Tue Dec 20 2011 20:42:22 #
playthoseblues
Member

Tip 68: OCD can make us feel low and often leave us feeling negative about ourselves. Write everything good that has happened to you over the past week and prove the condition wrong!

Sat Jan 7 2012 22:13:12 #
wannabefree
Member

Tip 69) I read this one somewhere... Try to live just for today, for this very minute... Remember the past is gone, and the future out of reach

Tue Jan 10 2012 21:03:01 #
Soxon
Key Master

Tip 70: Make time for yourself each day doing something that you enjoy that doesn't involve your OCD. Don't let anyone interrupt this time as it's your time.

Sat Mar 17 2012 12:54:03 #
Truddles
Member

Tip 71: To get the most out of life you need to raise your goals and lower your expectations. Make your expectations for both yourself and others more realistic. Expectations, especially unrealistic ones lead to disappointment and unfulfilled results.

Remember a goal is a process that’s self initiated and you have control over it, but all expectations depend on external events and or the behaviour of others and we generally don’t have control over them.

Sun Apr 1 2012 12:29:48 #
leighmcgivern
Member

Tip 72. Your OCD knows you and will use this against you

Sun Apr 8 2012 18:05:47 #
playthoseblues
Member

Hello hello hello!

This thread has been going a while, but I need your help. I've had this vision for a while of completing the 101 tips, and seeing if it can't be published into a fold out or leaflet. For those of you who don't know, I visit the Maudsley in London for treatment as I live very far from a CBT therapist, and I'd love to be able to tell them what we've been able to achieve! And it would surely benefit many sufferers.

So please, POST YOUR TIPS! I'm going back up in May, and it's the second to last time I shall see them!

Make the vision true!!

Mon Apr 16 2012 19:02:14 #
redinthehead
Member

I'd love to see this published.

Tip 73. Recognise it for what it is - it's OCD. It has different disguises, but it's always OCD.

Mon Apr 16 2012 19:43:08 #
playthoseblues
Member

Tip 74: Tackle small battles at a time, and when you feel ready take a big battle. Strategy can be key to overcoming are fears!

Mon Apr 16 2012 19:59:50 #
wannabefree
Member

Tip 75: Remember we are not alone with this... Keep communicating with other sufferers through forums like OCDAction. We're all in this together for as long as it takes to get through...

Fri Apr 20 2012 13:01:29 #
playthoseblues
Member

PLEASE KEEP COMING WITH YOUR TIPS! THINgS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER, OR POSTITVE QUALITIES OF OCD!

Fri Apr 20 2012 17:35:44 #
Tess
Member

Tip 76 Remember that you are an individual, your OCD will not be exactly the same as anyone else's so if one type of treatment doesn't work for you then try something different.

Sat Apr 21 2012 8:58:57 #
Soxon
Key Master

Tip 77: Focus on your strengths and not on your weaknesses. We tend to forget that we each have many strengths as our OCD tends to focus on our weaknesses.

Mon May 7 2012 8:26:53 #
daisychain7
Member

Tip 78 Meditation and yoga can be effective ways of relaxing and improving your mental health

Mon May 7 2012 13:33:06 #