There’s no real need for any of that… ya know, self-affirming stuff when it comes to mental illness. At least not with OCD anyhow, as far as I know . That all kinda just has to go out the window and instead you are learning, as in LITERALLY teaching your brain, to be okay with… silence. With whatever is happening. That’s it with OCD. It’s a hard as hell process and how it makes you end up as a person is down to you… so very long as you can do the aforementioned, in managing to keep on training your imbalance of brain to feel as purely settled as possible. There’s no point in trying to explain it. You know what it is, people in your life know what it is – a serious and chronic mental imbalance and happening in a very serious part of the brain for the sufferer. You have to… let you be you, even if that might often actually be, and feel, rather close to impossible, owing to the actual strength of the imbalance. Every time, you be sure to try and nail your trust to yourself. Everywhere you go, everything you do. You do it the same way you’d wanna have done it minus the interruption of OCD. That’s it. Taking your life and mind back. Just walked Joey there and brought him down to the river. I might grab a takeaway tonight, not sure yet. Defo, defo gonna go for a good, good run tomorrow morning with loads of stretching 😊 Can’t wait, actually. In fact I cannot wait for a lot of things given my wish to live much more than just well with the OCD. It’s all out there for me, and if I do have to miss a few things from time to time then that’s okay too. I’m ever-accepting and utterly prepared to back myself til the end.