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Why not give it a try if you have access to a regular therapist, my therapist isn't specialized in OCD but she still has some experience as she has treated several clients with it. Whats important is that they treat you with respect and are ready to do erp or act or both with you, otherwise you should probably look for someone else...I've worked on my own for quite a while and it helped me a lot as well but I think it is always better not having to be entirely alone with all this if you have the option... i feel a huge difference already just because I have an actual person to talk about what goes on in my head, and I think the more you can do to conquer this vicious disorder the better.
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That all makes sense to me! Thank you :)
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If your insurance covers a regular therapist you could give it a shot. Try to do some research first though about who is available to you and if they have experience with OCD. I had a counselor before who didn't understand OCD and just provided constant reassurance. Needless to say, he didn't help much.
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Yeah I’m definitely going to have to do plenty of research because I had the same problem when I went to the counseling center through my college, it was laughably bad 😅 I’m gonna try to find someone with OCD experience tho, thank you!
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I just had a call today to get a therapist on the NOCD app but they don’t take my insurance I have debilitating ocd I’m on ssi for it sometimes I’m better sometimes I’m not I just had a tramatizeing thing happen that is effecting my ocd and I’m scared wat habits I’ll pick up cause of this in the future and need to do therapy I live in Tennessee and I’m on ssi and get Medicare madicade and need somewere that specializes in ocd I can work on my smaller ocd problems but some I need help wit and my bf and family don’t understand ocd so I have noone to sit and tlk to and be like I have to wash my hands I have to do thing s a certain way cause they don’t understand it then when I can’t do those things and freak out they think I’m being over dramatic and just mad when really I’m suffering mentally ppl don’t get wat it feels like to do ocd things but I need help finding someone to work wit me.
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Maybe try calling your insurance and seeing who or what they do cover. Even if no one they have explicitly treats OCD, some therapists might have experience with it, you just might have to do some research on the ones available and see who does
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I went to a mental hospital when I was younger and they told my parents I was the worse case they’d ever had and they made me sit in the hallway for 2 weeks cause I couldn’t take a shower cause my ocd and they thought I was just not cooperating cause I was mad bout being there cause alot of ppl there didn’t wanna do stuff cause they were mad but I was sick they yelled at me everyday and then told me if I don’t shower someone would make me shower cause you have to shower they didn’t no anything bout ocd I was takeing showers for 2 hours doing rituals and doing things just rite they told me I can’t do that there that I’d just have to not do it and I couldn’t just not do it if I could I wouldn’t have ocd but they were scareing me and punishing me then someone came up to me and asked if they let me shower like I needed to and knocked on the door every few minutes to let me no the amount of time I was in there so if no to hurry if that would help and it did everyday I took a shower they’d knock every few minutes and I’d no to hurry I slowly got down to normal shower time but that was just 1 of the major ocd problem I had it took so much time they really didn’t help wit the others but it did help they just didn’t have the time and knowledge to really help me just cause things were manageable doesn’t mean there not disrupting my life but that was one of the big things that ppl could actually see showering for 2 hours isn’t normal at all but that’s the way everywere makes been for me noone has ever been able to actually help make my ocd better.
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I need a therapist who specializes in Pocd I’m struggling please tell me how much can you discount me because NOCD doesn’t take my insurance
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