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15 minutes worry time
How you guys think about 15 minutes worry time when you have OCD?
How you guys think about 15 minutes worry time when you have OCD?
I notice often ERP is referenced often on here as being very helpful. In my personal opinion and with my own experience it is only marginally helpful. For me a combination of the 15 minute worry sessions, CBT , ERP , nutrition, vitamins, meditation, prayer , and other methods work together to provide a ok overall cumulative benefit. Everyone is different. For example I have two therapists one on here provides a little help , the second therapist not on here also provides some assistance. Everyone is different though.
Thank you so much! I get what youre saying... erp sometimes make me feel like feelings in general should be ignored. I know its not what it is... but sometimes its just allvdifficult
Yes, I’ve heard of it being used for a lot of people. There are so many techniques, strategies, and assignments to get better for OCD with ERP but they don’t work for everyone. That’s why there’s so many different strategies though. I usually see this for someone that’s been in therapy for a while.
15 minutes usually turns into hours for me lol I don't really have the luxury to allocate time for worrying because the thoughts and the urge to do compulsions is always there. Sometimes they are strong other times they are bare able
Personally, I find at times setting a guideline of 15 minutes can be helpful for me because it can loosen some of the grip of the obsessions and compulsions.
I wonder what a therapist would say. For me, it didn’t work because I would schedule my “worry Time” and white knuckle through the time when I would allow myself to “worry” or think about whatever my fear was. Then I would spend 15 minutes ruminating. I guess what I’m trying to say is I just used that time to do compulsions. However, there was a time, early on in therapy, where I felt that I just couldn’t put off “checking” something and my therapist had me plan a time to look at something and then a hard stop and allowing the distress and whatever else came to be there. So, basically ERP. Are you working with a therapist? OCD is so tricky and what often seems like a reasonable thing to do is not, it’s just OCDs way of engaging you with the thoughts.
Thank you so much for reaction! My ocd latches onto every theme these months, but especially onto bad things that happen to me. Someone made a comment, it was painful, but it turned in to a complete obsession. Cant stop thinking about it, checking 24/7 in my mind if i still think about it, ruminate over and over again. I want to stop doing these compulsions but also give myself time to feel the pain from the painful comment...
I think 15 minute things work great for grief and sometimes general anxiety/depression or a natural feeling of feelings from an event especially when you are busy and need to “let go” in order to keep moving. I think if a person starts to engage with their thoughts during that worry time they should consider not doing it anymore, but definitely worth considering as long as once again non engagement practice if OCD enters is done during that 15
Thank you so much for reaction! My ocd latches onto every theme these months, but especially onto bad things that happen to me. Someone made a comment, it was painful, but it turned in to a complete obsession. Cant stop thinking about it, checking 24/7 in my mind if i still think about it, ruminate over and over again. I want to stop doing these compulsions but also give myself time to feel the pain from the painful comment. I dont want to engage with the thoughts, but also need to feel the pain...
@Day23 - That makes sense to me and so good that you are trying to find a balance of making that space for yourself.
what is worry time?
Giving yourself free time every day for like 15minutes where you can worry about everything you want and after that if you want to worry again you should wait for the next worry time you sceduled
Hi everyone. I'm feeling kinda scared because I have to wait a whole month to start ERP therapy, but I feel like I need to start doing exposures now because the longer I wait, the more anxiety I get. It just feels like the OCD monster is getting worse. One thing that helps me is asking one person about an obsession I have...asking a person that I trust, and then doing an exposure after I get the "ok" to do it. I feel like I do need 1 reassurance and then I can go ahead and do it. I know i'm not supposed to ask for reassurance at all, but i dont think you're supposed to do ERP on your own right? Does anyone have any suggestions for what to do while waiting for therapy? PS-the reason there is a wait is bc she's on vacation. After she's back we will meet regularly.
whats up guys what are some tips dealing with ocd and what to do when a thought makes u anxious ??
These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
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