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Can we free our minds, from our minds?

Answer: Don't know yet.

By CansuPublished 5 years ago 3 min read

As a OCD person, I am trying to separate my way with OCD for years. Was I successful? A little. But the more I get help, the more I read, the more I explored, I learned that I am not lonely. There are millions of people who is having the same problem with me. The difference is, each one of us experiencing differently. I was very very bad like 10 years ago but last 2 years, I am getting professional help which changed my life completely. I tried like 10 psychologists, 3 psychiatrist, a lot of money and spent 2 years. The result was bad economically but good psychologically. I was started to believe that there is no psychologist who doesn't care only the economical aspect of the sessions and they don't really care since you don't have a ver bad problem. One wanted a lot of money, one always forgot what I told, one didn't followed. As a result, I went online and found a place who has a variety of psychologist and wrote a letter saying that I don't a have huge budget but I have a huge problem that is affecting my life, my health and my environment. I was lucky that my psychologist today wrote me back that she wanted to help me. And my healing began. I was at a point in my life where I wake up and want to silence my head with a button and free my mind. The problem was I was trying to free my mind from my mind. Everything was in my mind. The good, the bad, the crazy. So I started to see thing a little different. It was a breaking for me to know a lot of people who was having the same issues with me. I was feeling surrounded by them, which helped me a lot. So I started to share my journey here.

Mental problems are very different for everyone. Some of us doesn't believe it, some of us takes it very seriously and some of us are in between. In my healing process, when I was a teenager I wasn't taking it seriously. I actually didn't have any idea that i have a problem. I was so busy growing up and dealing with puberty. I wish my parents were more careful about me to see that I need help. But I can't put the blame on them since I was just like a locked box when it came to the emotions. I was fully there in our family times but when it came to me, I was a closed box. Also, I have to admit that my family, especially my mom, was never believed in the power of psychotherapy. I understand that the times she grew up and the circumstances were very different then mine, but besides that her reason is very weird. She had two friends who are couple, and they were having bad times and were going to marital therapy. They were both, separate from each other, telling my mom that their therapist was encouraging them to stay apart. My mom is saying that her role should be consolidative, she should encourage them to stay together and solve their problems. The thing is they are still married, its been like 40 years, but we don't know if they are good or bad. What my mom doesn't understand is the therapists act like a mirror. They don't cure anything. You cure yourself. They make you see. They guide you, they show you the light. At least this is what I think. It is very important to get help, whether your problem is serious or not. Something small can get bigger if you don't take care of it. We go to see doctors if our nose bleed, or having pain in stomach but why don't we go to therapist when we have a problem in our heads?

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