ashpipe
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- 3y
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 3y
The best advice I can give is to just make sure that there are OCD specialists, and people who know how to do ERP with you. My old therapist who didn’t believe me when I said I had ocd, sent me to a PHP and it actually made me worse because I was with people who I felt I couldn’t relate to and had other mental health disorders that I was terrified of. No one specialized in OCD and I had to explain to my own therapist what OCD was. Psychologist there literally told me I had OCD but said they don’t do the treatment for it, which is ERP. I left right after!
em.jemem.jem
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- 3y
If your heart’s not really in it, you might want to consider trying it when you are fully able to participate in treatment and give it your all. ERP demands energy and it’s only effective if it’s something you really want more than anything else. Maybe wait until the summer when school ends. But you also need to consider your mental and emotional health along with your quality of life. It is usually worth it to work on your mental health before pursuing other goals.
em.jemem.jem
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- 3y
And you don’t want your mental health to get in the way of school or force you to take another medical absence!!!
ashpipeashpipe
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- 3y
That's true. :( I am afraid that my mental health will prevent me from doing well in school this semester, especially since I'm planning on doing school in person instead of online for the first time in years. I just really want to give school a shot again, even though I know that a program will help me. Plus even with insurance going to the program will be really expensive and I'd feel guilty asking my dad for help again with something like this.
ocdmanocdman
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- 3y
@ashpipe I get the place your in if it will prevent you from doing well in school I would recommend the program even if it’s time consuming it’s worth time to get better
ocdmanocdman
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- 3y
What’s the program entail
ashpipeashpipe
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- 3y
It's 7 hours a day 5 days a week and there's CBT, ERP, and group therapy.
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