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Letting other people in
Does anyone else get really nervous when telling someone about OCD/the thoughts you’re struggling with? I’m going to talk to a spiritual mentor today about it and am feeling anxious.
Does anyone else get really nervous when telling someone about OCD/the thoughts you’re struggling with? I’m going to talk to a spiritual mentor today about it and am feeling anxious.
Yes! And sometimes I overshare- but nobody *needs* to know details, but confessing can be a compulsion of mine so I feel I neeeed to, but being general is okay too!
Yes!
I feel that. I probably did that a bit today! I also very subtly seek reassurance when I share. I don’t know if I’m sneaky or not from a recipient point of view, but I like to think I’m subtle enough to do it without the person talking to knowing I’m trying to do it. But my mentor was great about actually not even engaging those. I’d say something that I knew was a reassurance question framed in a way that doesn’t seem like it and he would redirect the question. Which was actually probably more helpful than giving me reassurance!
@Rous That’s awesome!!!! I had a friend like that, that would ignore anything I said that sounded like a confession and it made me angry at first bc they were not letting themselves be a reassurance but sooo helpful
About the beginning to middle of February I went into the doctor and requested to see a counselor. I’m starting to see a counselor about anxiety in a few days and I’m extremely nervous. I’m nervous my counselor is going to say I have to break up with my bf otherwise I’ll be stuck with ocd for the rest of my life. I’m nervous my counselor is going to think I’m crazy and not know anything about ocd. I’m nervous my counselor is going to tell my aunt how crazy and messed up I am because my aunt works in the clinic I’m going to therapy at, and if she tells my aunt everyone in my family may find out. I’m nervous I’m going to hell because I’m going to counseling and not fully leaning on God instead to fix it all for me. I’m nervous I’m a bad Christian for going to therapy and not believing Jesus is going to fix it all. I’m nervous that my future is ruined because of my mental health. I’m worried that my boyfriend is going to break up with me because I’m too much to handle and too anxious. I’m just scared for my future because of my ocd and because I am not as passionate about my faith as I used to be so I feel like I’m gonna go to hell for that or like my sister is going to die because of her seizures because of my ocd. Idk I’m so scared.
(21+ ONLY: TRIGGER WARNING) I have therapy today and I’m nervous. I just started going to therapy and I really like my therapist. She talked to me about doing ERP and I’m really nervous about it. I’m scared to tell her the extent of my OCD, and my themes. I’m scared to tell her about my false memory OCD, because I’m scared that what I did was real and I’m just excusing it as false memory, although I have no memory of it. I’m scared that I am truly a monster and I’m using OCD as an excuse—and that she’ll find out and distance herself. I’m just scared that my whole world is gonna fall apart, all around me.
17f So I don't have an official diagnosis, but I know I have it, I struggle with it since I was 4, I went through like almost every theme like contamination, symmetry, checking, existential, health anxiety, false memory, moral ocd, sexual ocds, and also a therapist told me I have it (another one said I have generalized anxiety disorder but idk like I was talking about textbook ocd to her) I don't have a therapist now therapy is not working out well for me but I was hoping to maybe get medication For me the absolute hell is POCD and real event ocd. I genuinely don't know how do I start. I also think I will replace POCD with harm ocd cause well I'm to scared to talk about POCD. But what do I even say like do I come in and talk about more obvious ocd stuff I experience and then randomly jump to POCD, seems like a crazy jump idk... Also I thought it will be in the evening and I will have time to prepare but it's in and hour and a half I'm terrified Anyone? Help? How do I start what do I say I'm so scared
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