Is it worth it?
Hello all. Is it really worth it seeing a therapist here? I have struggled a lot with health anxiety and OCD and I feel like there is nothing will stop this and I will live all my life this way.
Therapy is life changing, it is absolutely worth it❤️
Hey, I feel the same way, I struggle really badly with my ocd and anxiety. I feel really hopeless at times and it’s really rough. I truly believe in seeing a therapist who is trained to treat ocd. Honesty sometimes I really feel like the only person that continues cheering me on when I loose hope in myself is my therapist. She has been my rock for years, and I don’t think I would have made it this far without her. Therapists are so helpful and a huge support system. It’s worth having a therapist, especially with ocd because ocd just tends to only get larger and stronger when left untreated.
Of course it’s worth it.
Hello friend! OCD can bring you into holes you have never imagined you can get out of. The most important thing is that while OCD may not have a cure, you can live a perfectly normal life. Start therapy, it is so worth it for OCD and life in general. All of these feelings you have can be changed with the perspective of a good therapist, you are so so worth it my friend. I love you more than you know because I have felt this pain before, but TRUST in me when I say there is hope. Press that button and get help, you will thank me later!
ERP Therapy is a key to true freedom for people with OCD. It has helped me immensely. I have 59% better than when I started in January. I now know how to approach it and what it really is. Give it a chance!!!
@Anonymous Would it work with HIV OCD? And health as general
@devmoha99 Yes I have in ERP for somatic / health concern ocd since November and I am completely changed since I started. I won't tell you anxiety will go away completely but it fades into the background. I still do exposures and I still talk to someone but its worth it.
@Will86 Really happy to hear this! I hope I can get better soon and get back my life again
I am so anxious as have mammogram next week and was recalled last time so scared
@Jak71 That has happened to me, too.
@Jak71 Happened a lot and the only thing I lost is money lol
@Anonymous How did you cope?
Hey all. I’m new to this site. I’m really hoping it works and I’m wondering if anyone with health anxiety and ocd triggers has really benefited from this site? I have depersonalization type feelings all day where my body is here and I can look in the mirror but it seems like a day dream. Sometimes I feel like my body is floating. I get vertigo all the time. I google symptoms and obsess over having some disease unknown even despite tests saying I’m healthy. I constantly check my heart if it’s beating; and I obsess over my breathing. It feels like I have to remember to breathe or like it’s not natural. I constantly worry about dying to the point it affects my life daily: I always think this is it this time it’s it when I’m having a panic attack. My body gets numb and I feel like I’ll pass out. I just really need to know I’m not alone in these feelings
I'm currently visiting my third therapist in the last three years and none of them have helped me so far. None of them have given me any type of diagnosis so I'm not even sure if I actually have OCD, and it's driving me mad. The last session I had, I even felt like it made things worse rather that it helped. I wanna feel that trust to my therapist that you should feel to be able to share your emotions but I don't. I feel like its not going anywhere, like it's useless. Lately I've been thinking about finding a therapist here at NOCD, I've even looked up some specific people and they all seem really nice and sweet.
So I’ve been getting treatment for about 3 months now and it’s been slowly starting to work I think and days are slowly getting easier. There are still plenty of bad days and days where I just feel completely defeated but I’m gradually learning how to deal with these emotions. Part of me is really relieved and excited as OCD was absolutely awful and the worst thing I’ve ever experienced. It held me back from so many things and I felt so trapped and I never imagined I’d be in so much agonising discomfort everyday. However part of me is also really uneasy as OCD is what I’ve known for so many years and I don’t know life without it. It’s almost unsettling integrating back into the ‘normal’ way of life as part of me doesn’t know where to start and I feel like I lack foundation if that makes sense as I have been unable to do so much for so long. I’m also finishing school soon which makes things even harder as I don’t know what comes next, or who or what I’ll become and do with my life. I guess my question is, is life beyond OCD worth it and is it worth climbing out of this hell hole? I also know that I’ll probably always have OCD and there may always be bad days but it’s just becoming less disabling and time consuming which is so exciting but sort of terrifying at the same time. I also am worried that I’ll live a boring and miserable life because at least dealing with OCD left me with something and made life more interesting, much more painful but It almost became my identity. But I guess there has to be something more beyond this life I’m living. Sorry this is long.
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