Anonymous
- Date posted
- 3y
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
- 3y
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
- 3y
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
- 3y
I’ve been on medication forever. Truly nothing helps.
xusertrynafightxusertrynafight
- Date posted
- 3y
@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
- 3y
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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Anonymous
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 24w
Can someone help
My ocd is going off the hinges. I can’t stop thinking God is angry at me and hates me and it’s weird. And can’t stop thinking everyone hates me. I can’t stop thinking that no matter what I try I’ll never get better. This sucks
Anonymous1990
- Date posted
- 19w
ERP
I’m starting NOCD. I had several years of cbt as a child (well over 20 years ago) and I see a trauma therapist. But now I’ll be seeking further help for OCD and just really scared. CBT wasn’t helpful for me. How has ERP been helpful for you? Do you feel like you’ll finally get your life back? I’m consumed by my obsessions 😢 Would love others feedback if ERP helped you ❤️
avantika 😛
- Date posted
- 8w
Rant...
I just feel like therapy isn’t working… like I get to talk about myself and understand myself… but I’m already incredibly self aware. My therapist thought I was like 5 years older than I am… and she gives me such basic strategies that do absolutely nothing for me. And a psychiatrist prescribed me with Zoloft… but I don’t know if T want to take medication. I’m scared of side effects… and I’m scared of getting better… I’m scared of letting my guard down. I know it will make me less cautious which makes me less likely to push myself to perfection like I currently do, which I can’t have happen. Every time I talk to my mom about it, she’s always like “Let’s talk about this some other time, I’m busy with other things”, and then never remembers. But in the rare moments we do talk about it, she treats it like I’m signing up to be a drug addict. I also feel very guilty for spending so much of my parents’ money- therapy… medication… etc… and also the idea of my being unlovable is so deeply engraved in my brain… I genuinely, truly believe it. No therapy or medication can fix it. I can’t change my mind. My therapist tells me my misophonia is not a “deal-breaker” and that someone would be lucky to have me as a partner… but then why hasn’t anyone ever liked me? My own FAMILY can’t stand me. How do I believe something I know isn’t true? That’s even harder to accept than me being unlovable. I can’t see someone loving me. And it is so incredibly exhausting to seek love,e I know I cannot have. My sister says, “It will get better with age…” It has only ever gotten worse. To the point I don’t want to get better. It has reached the severity where I feel more safe and successful with anxiety. My past 3 birthdays have been me wishing for therapy. And now I have therpay- and medication, the potential key… and I refuse? Am I too deep in? I cant get out, it’s too late. How did absolutely no one notice how much I had and have been hurting? Why did no one listen to my cries or worries? I feel really depressed and hopeless right now. It takes so much effort to get up every day… I’m so tired.
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