For 16 years I lived with chronic guilt, anxiety and shame always present in the background. ROCD hit hard as a child and I started to develop new themes such as Harm OCD, HOCD/Health OCD in between. I felt I was living in constant fear, confessing and seeking reassurance from my parents when triggered. All themes to me felt extremely intense when suffering.

Last year I found out that I had been suffering from OCD and started working with OCD Recovery. Having 1:1 sessions with Rob & Momin have helped me look at my irrational beliefs that were fueling the OCD cycle due to fears towards relationships and fears of being a bad person. Breaking down these irrational beliefs and adopting unconditional self/life/other acceptance has been the key part for me on my recovery journey. I have started to have perspective shifts of why things aren’t awful like we think, and how I have awfulised things for many years, emotionally disturbing myself. Although I have made massive progress cutting out compulsions, reassurance seeking and confessing, I still am on my journey to recovery and will continue to put the work in despite setbacks along the way!