anyone else with trauma & just right ocd?

I have PTSD & OCD and I’m feeling lost on how I can stop losing time to compulsions. I become entranced whether it’s google, my handwriting, cleaning, explaining something via text, online shopping etc - I’ll fixate on it and everything else melts away. Ill ignore alarms or shut them off and keep going. ERP has been a challenge because my fixation / compulsion morph to whatever is in front of me. I struggle to stick to my hierarchy. Anyone else struggle with this & have trauma/dissociate? I feel like a failure to my NOCD therapist & myself.

Username: Nica

Date posted: 299d ago

Yes, I do. I did trauma therapy first, healed from my PTSD, and then started ERP for OCD and healed/recovered from that.

Username: purplebeach

Date posted: 299d ago

ah, do you know if that’s the recommended route when dealing with both? Basically, heal/process then ERP?

Username: Nica

Date posted: 299d ago

@pinecone96 I did trauma therapy first and then ERP. It can be extremely hard to do OCD therapy if you aren’t healed from your trauma because you’re basically retraimatizing yourself.

Username: purplebeach

Date posted: 299d ago

@Nica Thank you! I appreciate the feedback. Been wondering if it was complicating my road to success.

Username: Nica

Date posted: 299d ago

@pinecone96 Retraumatizing* hopefully that typo wasn’t confusing.