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You should use the recording button on the app during your exposures to let out how you feel. Sometimes saying how your feeling out loud helps
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@WorriedDriver I agree with you that it’s worth it but for someone like me I just simply can’t afford an extra $400 a month to pay for it. It’s unfortunate that it’s so hard to get sufficient help for OCD if you don’t have the means to pay for it. With a lot of other mental conditions, people are able to get sufficient help more easily than for this disorder. It’s very frustrating when you are ready, willing, and needing to get help but not able to. I feel it needs to become more accessible.
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You know what works for you so you should tell her that
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This therapist is misguiding you because she doesn’t understand how OCD works. Denying the intrusive thought and reassuring yourself is 100% incorrect of what you should do when you have OCD. You need someone who at the very least understands ERP because this is how OCD is treated. I don’t think you necessarily need someone who has experience with pure O specifically because pure O generally has mental compulsions so it will be treated the same way. Worst case — have you tried doing exposure therapy on your own, with the help of this app?
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Hi Pineapple yes I’ve been doing exposures for some of my obsessions on my own by some are just too troubling for me and I was hoping to find a therapist who could help me with the anxiety and shame I experience on account of my OCD. I wanted to make sure my exposures were done properly me because some of them are just too upsetting for me
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I literally had to call every therapist in my city to find someone that had experience in treating OCD. Only one was taking new patients. She doesn’t take insurance. I decided it was worth it ($100/session) because if ERP is done properly, it doesn’t have to be done forever.
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Honestly I know that I talk about The OCD Stories podcast a lot, but really I’m learning a lot from it and they interview expert psychologists on OCD that I could only dream of being treated by. I also have bought a couple workbooks for OCD. Thus far I’m liking the one by Jonathan Abrahamowitz the best. I am making my own binder of good articles I get for free online. I feel your pain in how difficult it is to get treatment.
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- 15w
I read about ERP and have seen information about it on here. One of the goals is to say, "maybe I am this or that...ect." That terrified me. The thoughts and images that go in my head are disturbing and upsetting. I don't want to even think about saying, "maybe this or that." It's devasting to have these thoughts and question why you're having these thoughts. Doesn't the "maybe" make it worse? The one thing that helps me is that is to remind myself that these are just thoughts and I know I'm not a monster, even if I feel like one. Is ERP not for everyone? Has anyone else had a problem with the techniques used in this kind of therapy? I had cognitive therapy for years with an OCD specialist and that seemed to help a lot. Writing out the worst case scenarios would make me suicidal. Im having a difficult time not obsessing over the "maybe" after intrusive thoughts now. It doesn't make it better.
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Has anyone else had a rough start? I’m 4 sessions in and have had no actual ERP work happen, I have 2 different therapists because none have availability to meet 2 times a week. Both those therapists are not available for the next 2 weeks so now I’m going to see a new 3rd one. Each time I’ve seen a new therapist I feel like the whole first session is spent with them re explaining everything. I’m paying for this out of pocket because they don’t accept Tricare which is my insurance as a Retired Marine. So I’m 960 in, and honestly feel worse than when I started. I get zero suggestions on what to do between sessions and feel so incomplete after my session finishes. I feel like I’ve gotten more help asking chat gpt questions on EPR and how to deal with ROCD than I do in my sessions . Does anyone have any insight or helpful advice here?
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Hi! I’m trying to say this story as short as possible. I started realizing I was having an ocd flare up a long time ago and I chose private psychotherapy because I thought it would be better. I had a bunch of other issues and I wanted one quick (I had tried 2 before) and when I met someone that I felt was kind of okay I trusted them with my ocd. The thing was that she was NOT specialized in ocd, in fact, looking back I realize that she barely knew how to handle it at all. I had a really good one when I was younger and I was not having symptoms when I quit years ago, so it surprised me a LOT that all I had learned got unlearned because I trusted a bad psychologist. I have currently Rocd and a bit of compulsive staring as well, plus tricomania. I really really want to warn you, DON’T LET A NON OCD SPECIALIST GIVE YOU ADVICE OR ERP!!!!! It has taken me a while to realize all the damage she did. But I was so desperate for a solution at the time that I ignored the signs. She had no idea what she was doing and she actually asked me what we should do! She also made my staring worse, because she told me to try to not look (which is actually wrong), she also asked me if I was really in love with my partner, EVEN THOUGH I HAD NO DOUBTS AT THE TIME!!! She thought that I actually wanted sex with someone else and was like yeah it’s normal some people do that, instead of understanding my feelings and that I actually didn’t want to, but it was an intrusive thought. (It was very different from the classic: you know what maybe maybe not erp thing) She misunderstood everything and I now have to rewire my brain.
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