Hello beautiful people My theme is emotional Contamination ( I am afraid that I might have an accident and have an injury in my body ) My therapist asked me to say out loud and imagine that I had that accident and get injured, now I say that what if I manifest that as the law of attraction says 😭 My OCD got worse than past
💕 That sounds tough! Youre doing a good job even if things seem harder now I can assure you it will get easier darling !
You have to fully understand the law of attraction and manifestation to realize that that cannot happen. Your therapist has you simply stating what is in your mind, and not necessarily asking for it. This is actually a good technique but it doesn’t manifest anything. We manifest things through saying what we desire and then living like we already have it. What you’re doing is simply acknowledging to yourself what your mind or the OCD voice is doing and saying, but not asking for anything. The act of stating what you observe is to keep you from getting caught up ruminating about it. 2 separate acts with 2 separate expectations.
I am so proud of you for trying this exposure! I like to imagine the ERP journey as riding a bike up a hill. The way up is hard, sweaty, and may include periods of doubt and regret. BUT eventually we reach the top. The top of the hill is exciting and filled with awesome views of what we just conquered. Then my favorite part, we get to ride back down the hill celebrating everything we just accomplished. So, the journey is hard now, but the end will be so worth it! SO glad you are apart of the NOCD community.
Sometimes our mind can get into some tricky business including something called magical thinking. Magical thinking might try to convince us that things we say have special power to make things happen. I think it is great you are recognizing your own patterns of thinking that are challenging and being willing to share your struggle is really brave! I would encourage you to continue to embrace your discomfort and lean into the uncertainty with your therapist. I look forward to seeing your updates. Please let me know if you have any questions.
I’m not sure if anyone has had this fear, but i’m worried that if i actually get better with erp and face my harm ocd that one day the thought of hurting others won’t scare me anymore. Has anyone else had this fear?
i'm so scared to start erp as someone with contamination ocd and i honestly get so scared that it's not going to work (for me) because i genuinely can't imagine my brain not feeling like germs are scary and are gonna hurt me. like tonight i freaked out because i felt like my clean clothes touched my "dirty" shirt as i was switching over the laundry and it literally sent me into a panic attack about how hard it is to struggle with this. like how will i never find that as a threat? how will erp help that like will i have to intentionally wear dirty clothes? i'm just scared.
I have contamination OCD. How am I supposed to do ERP when I feel like there’s poison everywhere? I can’t live like this anymore but ERP is terrifying to me.
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