Recently during an ERP exercise I felt like a stronger than usual urge/anxiety to act on the intrusive thought. More so I’m just venting since it’s like I’ve done the exercises before and its been good but sometimes you may get an urge/thought that feels strong and it throws my mind into a loop on why I just had that image/urge and doubting how I feel or my thoughts. Has anyone else experienced this?
Yep! Someone explained it to me like this … imagine that everytime u go to the shop you buy your toddler a sweet, you’ve done this for months and built a routine … now take that away, your toddler is not going to be like “ah ok”. No, they will go CRAZY, it will be so hard at first, but they will learn in time and every toddler is different 💛 this is OCD with ERP, you’re striping the OCD from its “comfort” - recovery isn’t linear
@Jojo. Yea good point! Recovery isn’t linear and I think I expected it to be given that I’ve been feeling better overall.
@NickSchtick I actually find it more upsetting now I’ve started recovery to like experience the “badness”… cos I’m like why aren’t I fixed!!!! 😂
I get this feeling every day😓
Sometimes I notice my intrusive thoughts cause me to spiral and sometimes not. I've been practicing ERP for quite a while so it's a bit easier for me to not spiral. But I wonder why that happens. Does anyone else have it? Also I'm on medication idk if that plays a role.
Hi guys! I’m new to the community and I’ve recently received my OCD diagnosis (tho I’ve known about it since childhood). I’ve been somewhat spiraling lately as I wait for my first ERP session (hooray!) I was just wondering if any of you guys have received ERP for existential OCD and if it was successful? My existential OCD compulsions are more so mental and have been affecting me in the sense of dream/memory flashbacks and giving me a sort of “uncanny” feeling about everything around me. Any advice is appreciated! Thank you❤️
What ERP or other techniques do you use to combat fear of cancelation? Especially curious about those with taboo thoughts, false memory ocd and event ocd based off of real events where the fear of cancellation may actually hold some validity. I once did my own ERP not under a therapist but just on my own I decided to create an anonymous account on Twitter and defend a friend who was receiving online criticism. I knew that this would be semi-controversial so I was expecting backlash and when I recieved troll replies it actually seemed to be a really helpful low-stakes exposure activity. Is this something that others have done? Low stakes online posts etc. that you know will recieve negative responses? I have had severe OCD as a kid as pretty much every subtype under the sun, and as an adult I pretty much have all the types under control except for this real event and false memory and taboo thought OCD. It seems like a different beast since it's somewhat realistic in the camcellation culture today, and it's confusing to address. Ive shut down almost all social accounts and it's keeping me from progressing in a career where I need to have an online presence :/
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