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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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- 6y ago
@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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- 6y ago
You know what works for you so you should tell her that
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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 20w ago
Where do I begin with this…….. so my OCD has been around since childhood and has had many themes over the years. I only realised I have it just over 2 years ago. I’ve tried many things to help it not be such a monster and thought I had a good grip on it for a length of time until now! Some of my strategies have been acceptance, change of perception of thoughts and sometimes on hard days just telling myself that no matter what, I have to be brave and go out and live life. In the last few months I’ve developed none OCD related anxiety as well and so have been looking at ways to help with that. Sunday morning I was just casually scrolling TikTok and a video only about 30 seconds long or so comes up, seemingly a therapist of some kind, straight away the video began something like “you cannot replace a thought with another thought” along the lines of “you can’t THINK your way out anxiety” I don’t know the full context of the video it wasn’t long enough, I don’t know who the therapist was I didn’t look but now purely because of that one sentence my OCD has gripped onto it so badly and is trying to tear down some of my strategies because I have used changing my thought patterns a lot to help me, self compassion etc but now because of that video I’m struggling! I’m not looking for answers but I am just really upset and it feels like I’m in an impossible grip of OCD again
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- 19w ago
Hi, I don’t know what to do anymore Pocd kills me I had many themes before but this theme is the hardest for me. I’m tired. I’m on therapy and meds but I barely do erp . I don’t have a reason I just don’t want to do it but today I will because I have to. I’m taking meds and they help with the anxiety for sure. But the obsessive part is still here . I’m almost 2 months on it (40 mg on Prozac) but I’m still super obsessed like I can have thoughts 24/7 every second of the day and not leave me alone. I have experienced a thought right now for a month + . It’s a thought to do compulsion/urge. My therapist says to let go and gives me tips how to she also tell me to do more erp. But I have this thought to do compulsion for more then month. Im scared what if I don’t have ocd the thought is 24/7. Do you think I should switch meds im so tired.
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- 11w ago
Whenever I have a non flirtatious, friendly interaction with a male my brain accuses me of cheating. I go into a full panic attack until I tell my husband then it goes away Same thing with intrusive thoughts. I'll have a random sexual thought about someone and my brain tells me that since I thought that it must be what I wanted and accuses me of cheating. Sometimes these thoughts come with actually physical feelings of what intruded. Thoughts of "what would it be like .." but I stop myself and then freak the flip out. With erp am I just supposed to let the sexual thoughts or accusations play out in my head?! It's excruciatingly painful. Also if I sit there and give into a sexual thoughts paired with the "mood" feelings how is that not mentally cheating 😵💫
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