Hello everyone. I was wondering if there is anyone else on her that is finally getting the help they always needed at an older age. I am 62, and have had a lot of therapy that didn't really do much for me.
Welcome and congratulations! There are so many of us that are finding this treatment later in life - I am 54 and I have been in treatment for 16 months and it has made such a huge difference in my life. I am so happy that you have found treatment.
Hello! Welcome! It’s never too late for help and so happy you found this app as it offers a lot. Seeing an OCD specialized therapist is a game changer. I wish you luck on your OCD recovery journey. I’ll be rooting for you!
Thank you so much!
Hello and welcome! I’m so glad you’ve found the help you always needed. I’m 25 now, but struggled with OCD for 15+ years before I learned about ERP & got the treatment that changed my life, so definitely resonate with it being a long time coming. I share the experience of having other kinds of talk therapy that didn’t help much and in some cases made my OCD symptoms worse. Now I know how common that is! I hope you find a supportive community here 💜
I am lucky and started treatment when I was 15, but even so, I can relate to going through therapy that didn't help first. Unfortunately, a lot of therapists don't know much about OCD. It really helped me to find an ERP specialist because ERP is the main therapy recommended for OCD. Good for you for sticking with it! When therapy feels like it isn't helping, it can be hard to put in the work to find a new therapist, especially when you are really struggling. When I found an OCD/ERP specialist, though, it was life-changing and so worth the search. Wishing you well in your recovery journey :)
Hi all. It is my first week on here and I don’t think I was anticipating how broken I would feel when I started this process. I hope I can do this, but I have been at listening to these obsessions about my health for 30 of my 45 years on the planet. I thought I had things more together, but this year has been real bad for so many reasons and my cracks are really showing. I am not sure what my question is..maybe I just need to know people have come back from where I am.
Hi everyone, my name is Kendal and I am new here, although I do not believe I am new to OCD in the SLIGHTEST. Im about to leave my 20s behind and begin a new chapter of my life. Everyone says your 30s are suppose to be the best right? I am proud of myself for making a huge step forward, before the beginning of this new chapter. I’ve been experiencing symptoms of OCD for as long as I can remember. These feelings, thoughts, compulsions have been existing with me since middle school. They’ve manifested in many many different ways throughout the years, and continue to evolve as I get older. I’ve experienced emetophobia, obsessive thoughts about passing out or getting sick in front of people, contamination OCD, white coat syndrome and the newest culprit… Harm OCD. In middle school, it was extremely hard to understand WHY I felt the way I felt, and experienced the intense anxieties that I did. Over the years I kind of just put up with these thoughts and feelings of uneasiness.. and thought it was just regular ol’ anxiety. Recently the harm OCD came through, triggered by a traumatic event. Lemme tell ya… if you’ve ever experienced harm OCD… I am terribly sorry. It’s absolutely horrifying. It scared me so badly, to the point of actually seeking professional help. During that extreme anxiety inducing time, I was also terrified to tell a professional what was happening to me. I started with telling my husband first. What a RELIEF! I learned that telling someone made me feel so much better so I thought, man… I wonder what telling a professional would do for me? RELIEF!!!!! She helped me realize that yes this is a very very real thing people experience daily. She’s suggested therapy to pair with medication. I’ve given the medication about a year to do its thanggg and goodness, what a difference. I wish I got help earlier but hindsight is 20/20. This is me, now ready to implement therapy. I’m ready to gain a better understanding, collect coping skills and chat with people who have had similar experiences. Thinking you’re alone in OCD is incredibly isolating and scary. I am happy to finally realize I am not alone.
I am newly diagnosed with OCD as a 33 year old female I was fat oses with bipolar at 15 and never really identified with it much and totally relate to ocd. I wish i would have known long ago so I could have gotten treatment earlier. Now that I know and am aware and can see what’s off and what are compulsions and my insatiable need for reassurance it’s so overwhelming- it feels like my mind is a prison and attacks me with a new pure o quest as soon as I wake up I’m optimistic I’ll be able to get better but it just feels like it’s time sucking and joy stealing disorder I know I’m not alone here I feel like a crazy person replaying and replaying things I want to know if you can relate or if you have been at this for a while and actually feel like you are breaking free from this Thanks for the read
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