Welcome to the MoveThroughFear blog, where I want to share my journey of overcoming OCD and Anxiety. My goal is to encourage others dealing with the same issues to keep fighting because OCD and Anxiety don’t have to control your life forever, even if it feels that way most of the time.
I’ve been through mental health struggles, and I’ve found that practical examples and tips from personal experiences are the most helpful. This website is here to provide easy-to-follow advice with relatable examples, making it accessible for anyone dealing with their own OCD or Anxiety challenges.
A bit about me:
I’m a 38-year-old guy who dealt with anxiety since my early 20s, especially in social situations. I just pushed through it until it faded away on its own. But I had a habit of avoiding or hiding my negative feelings, which I later realized wasn’t the best way to deal with them.
In my early 30s, anxiety took a tougher turn, leading to panic attacks and a diagnosis of General Anxiety Disorder. It was a rough period, about 3-4 years, until I started accepting things instead of resisting. Acceptance became my most powerful tool, turning my life around and making it happy and stable with a successful business, a great family, and the ability to enjoy life.
Years after recovery, a work incident brought me down again, this time with OCD and specific themes related to the incident. Since OCD is good at playing tricks, it gave me different kinds of symptoms, feelings, thoughts, and urges. So, I needed to learn a few more skills to deal with it.
One thing I’ve learned is that whether it’s social anxiety, general anxiety, or OCD, they all stem mostly from fear and resistance. In my case, it was always a negative emotion or feeling that I suppressed because that was my way of coping with negative feelings. Join me as I share my experiences with anxiety recovery and the journey of recovering from OCD.
My wish is to help someone else with my experience because the two things that helped me the most during recovery were to know:
- I am not alone with this condition. I am not crazy. I am not really sick; I just need help/the right tools to deal with unpleasant feelings.
- Yes, recovery is possible and will happen with the right knowledge and work, which is simple but not easy. The key is to accept and embrace the uncertain and unpleasant feelings.
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