Proverbs31:28 Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 Gaaaahhh! My anxiety is climbing just watching this show! It truly frightens me how much I relate to the "subjects."Is anyone else watching? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaudio Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 No, I missed it. Perhaps I will be able to catch a re-run some time. Did you learn anything interesting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concrete_angel Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 My anxiety was through the roof and I had to take two pills instead of one to bring me down off of my anxiety struck mind. :eek: I think I feel like my ocd will never get better and there is no hope for me.. So no more show for me.. TyConcrete_Angel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ASchwartz Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 Hi Concrete_anger and members,I want to advise and urge all of you to not watch these reality programs on A&E. They always manage to distort the real facts and all of us have enough reality in our lives to deal with without subjecting ourselves to the suffering of other people.Concrete_angel:I think I feel like my ocd will never get better and there is no hope for me.. So no more show for me.. Your thinking is not accurate. You will get better, things just feel bad at the moment. There is hope for you and that is always true of everyone. No more show for you is a great idea for all of us.Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proverbs31:28 Posted May 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 Hi Concrete_anger and members,I want to advise and urge all of you to not watch these reality programs on A&E. They always manage to distort the real facts and all of us have enough reality in our lives to deal with without subjecting ourselves to the suffering of other people.AllanAllan, I am SO glad to hear you say this! At the end of the show, I kept thinking they made it look "too easy!" I mean these people had longstanding fears and issues that were completely resolved in 6 WEEKS???? I have been in CBT for OCD in the past and it literally took me a year just to get over ONE of my issues (folding and refolding clothes) and I am still stuck with others that I have just not been ready to face. I gain too much "comfort" (for lack of a better word) from the control part of the OCD, despite how broken the OCD makes me feel inside. Does that make any sense??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaudio Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 I am sorry, I did not appreciate what the members were going through watching the show. But, as Allan has pointed out, if these sorts of programs tend to distort reality, it is not worth watching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesdean21 Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 I saw that it was going to come on and i already decided i wasnt going to watch it, i feel like everything im afraid of is unnecessary and not real, so i didnt want to support it and feel like i was in those shoes, i did see a clip of the single mother crying and i was like ok yeah thats why i dont wanna be watching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proverbs31:28 Posted May 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 I saw that it was going to come on and i already decided i wasnt going to watch it, i feel like everything im afraid of is unnecessary and not real, so i didnt want to support it and feel like i was in those shoes, i did see a clip of the single mother crying and i was like ok yeah thats why i dont wanna be watchingI think you made a wise decision. I won't be watching again. It affected me way more deeply than I thought it would. Everytime I walk into the bathroom today, my anxiety increases because of something I saw on that show! So not worth it. I reall thought the show was an unbiased, documentary-type look at OCD and was quite disappointed and discouraged by what it really was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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