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Jon Hershfield
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Be Grateful! Be Productive! Or Maybe Just Be Good to Yourself?
“Take in what’s useful, of course, but don’t forget to consult with yourself to assess your actual needs.”
In times of great stress, we are often told to remember to be grateful for what we have and to be as productive as we can be. OK, I actually can’t think of any times like these, but I am seeing a lot of people on the internet tell me to be grateful for what I have and to be productive during
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“Most people say "I'd do anything for my child," but the Harm OCD sufferer has to do more than just show up for the job. You have to show up to this amazing beautiful being even knowing that it aggravates your disorder. You have to do exposure to the darkest, most terrifying corners of the mind. You have to cope with extreme love, often reminding you of extreme fear. You have to tolerate the uncertainty that your child may have a short or painful life in order to maximize the possibility that she has a happy one. To love your children is to be vulnerable to them and to see their vulnerability. You have to risk being harmed and you have to risk harming in order to be close to anyone. OCD can make you think you're too crazy to deserve this closeness with a child. But you're not crazy. You got this.”
― Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts
― Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts
“You're not crazy. I'm going to remind you of this throughout the book. "Crazy" is a nonsense word we use to put ourselves down when we don't like what we see in the mind. You have a common, diagnosable, treatable disorder.”
― Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts
― Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts
“Not only can you not predict the future, you can never be certain what your intentions were in the past. We only ever know what our intentions are right now in this exact moment.”
― Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts
― Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts
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