Anonymous
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Nothing ever helps.
CBT, DBT, ERP…. I still always feel terrible no matter what I try or do. I don’t know what to do… my life is destined to be miserable.
ahamptonGodisgoodahamptonGodi...
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I haven’t done therapy yet, I hope to try ERP, but a relationship with Jesus Christ is life changing. I struggle but knowing he’s with me etc. is huge, I wouldn’t be here without him.
xusertrynafightxusertrynafight
- Date posted
- 2y ago
ERP can help you controlling your symptoms, but you have to find the right therapist and do it for the right amount of time. I've never tried it still. Antidepressants are very useful controlling your symptoms too, in a less conscious way though, I've taken them for a year, and my R-OCD got really better. Then I started with a psychoanalytical therapy. Psychoanalysis can help you bringing to your conscious world the inner and strong motivations that are limiting you, activating your pathological circle of thinking. I've been in therapy since two years now, results are appearing and disappearing now, but it's a longer path and it requires a very good doctor and for at least 4-5 years (to get really really better). If you are too down now, just consider to start with antidepressant that will help you to restore your serenity, and then think about making an ERP therapy, and maybe a Psychoanalysis too for the long run. You are not the only one, and you can still have back what's missing.
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I’ve been on medication forever. Truly nothing helps.
xusertrynafightxusertrynafight
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@Anonymous Tried all of those? There's always something that can help you. Find the right thing, the right person, the right place! And give you time
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Don’t give up. There may be a different therapist, a different therapy technique, or a different medication that could help you. If you haven’t already I would check out Michael J. Greenburg’s website, as well as the OCD Recovery YouTube channel. I’m sorry things have been difficult for you and you haven’t seen any improvement. But don’t give up, just because you haven’t found what works for you, doesn’t mean you won’t ever find it and recover. A good OCD specialist, who you connect well with and is invested in your recovery can be key to seeing improvement. Keep pushing forward, no matter how unlikely you think it might be to see improvement. Just as in ERP you are taught you can never be certain something bad won’t happen, on the flip side you can never be certain a good outcome won’t happen either.
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NaggingOCD
- Date posted
- 22w ago
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feel really down like i'll never be able to live my life i feel i'm never truly happy i just have to get by i feel stuck ive had loads of therapy cbt nothing will ever really help me 😞
Northern_Dow...
- Date posted
- 11w ago
What is even the point.
I've been bedridden with anxiety and haven't eaten much. I tried going on a walk and broke down halfway through to cry. It kind if helped my physical anxiety but hasn't helped my ocd much. ERP is so difficult. It just makes me exhausted and anxious and cry. And I don't even feel a little better afterwards, so what's the point? I get I'm supposed to build up resilience but when? when do I finally feel some reward? I'm suffering, I don't have the energy to fight these thoughts when all the thoughts I have are rumination or intrusive. Medications haven't worked for me either. Maybe I'm not going to get better. Happy new year to me.
Sage._
- Date posted
- 9w ago
I don't think I can handle my ocd anymore
I can't stop thinking about ending my life. I feel like I'm not even living, I'm just surviving. Everyone is capable of being a person and functioning and I'm just stuck here avoiding everything. My psychiatrist said my ocd is severe and it will all take time and I'll start erp and I'm already on medication but I just feel so depressed and like I won't be able to handle erp and it's already too late for me. I feel inhuman, it's debilitating. My major theme is just fear or contamination, I can't even make myself a meal I can't touch anything in the kitchen. I get stuck in the shower for 2 hours and when I don't shower because I'm depressed I feel like a walking germ. My hands are a mess, my school work is shit, I avoid and avoid and I'm just so tired of "living" like this. My psychiatrist said they don't have any therapists available right now like.... excuse me? What do you mean u don't have any 😭 I honestly don't even know why I'm typing this becuase nothing helps, nothing ever will. I'm so deep into this I can't get out, my room looks like shit, I can't live in this body anymore, I really can't. I let everyone down, I am and will be such a dissapointment. I don't have any dreams or goals or passions I just wasn't made to be here. I don't know how or who to ask for help like there's nothing anyone can do, I'm already on meds. I can't keep being like this, seeing everyone judge me for acting insane.
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