Rant therapist

My therapist just told me I am being dramatic. She’s a psychoanalytical therapist and doesn’t do any exposures with me so I decided to go to the clinic to have some therapy with erp. I told her I’m suffering with my ocd and she’s under the impression it‘s the cause of us going into the depths of my deep hurt from childhood. Though she might be right, my ocd is flaring up right now and I have 0 tools apart from what I’m learning myself to cope with it. Anyways, she said I was dramatic and thats why I decided to go to the clinic after a major ocd episode this week. Wtf ? And on top of it I actually wanted to switch to the clinic to do erp, because I feel like she’s encouraging me to ruminate about my ocd triggers which she does! As she is under the impression it’s because of my fathers sa (could def be true, how does it help me though). Feel worse than this morning after the session I’m super pissed off

ReadyForImpr...

Date posted: 2y

I think you're doing the right thing. Talk therapy and CBT that isn't ERP (ERP is a type of CBT) can make OCD worse. At best, it's a waste of time & money. Could your OCD be due to trauma? Sure. But you're 100% right about the fact that the cause is less important than the treatment. If you need trauma therapy, you can address that separately. You can have your OCD therapist coordinate with a trauma specialist if and when that is needed. I treated my trauma first, then when I hit a plateau, we realized that I wasn't improving because of OCD. At that point, the trauma therapy was basically me ruminating and doing compulsions (oops), so I switched to an OCD therapist. Some treat OCD first, then trauma. Everyone is different. Being focused on the cause of OCD instead of treatment is like being on a sinking boat... you could stand there trying to figure out why it's sinking/what caused the hole in the boat OR you could address the immediate issue of *not going down with it* and get to shore!

lea134

Date posted: 2y

@ReadyForImprovement Thank you soso much for your elaborate explanation ! It really soothed me somehow to know I’m not the only one. Your analogy with the sinking boat is just perfect! I can really resonate with that. When it comes to my case, it’s that due to my fathers sa (as she believes) I have lots of silent anger in me. Once that releases, she believes, im free of the intrusive thoughts and ‚anger towards myself‘. Though it might be true to some degree, it encourages me to ruminate about my relationship ocd triggers that *might or might not be* imo connected to my fathers sa. But the baseline is, im being encouraged to ruminate about it. As per her view, she believes im connected with my father through theses ocd thoughts and so on and so forth. Basically yesterday I did erp myself and I was really feeling so much better. After todays session about ruminating about the trigger and analyzing it and even finding ‚parallels‘ from that trigger (it’s a man) with my father she encouraged my rumination to the max. Now obviously I feel worse. And confused… Iwhenever I ask her how to deal with my intrusive thoughts she says ‚let them come and go‘. Yeah, as if I didn’t try that … I really am confused now and obsessing about ehrtet or not she’s right and im making a bad choice. But guess what, I will never know and im motivated to try out erp…

Mr. Solo Dolo

Date posted: 2y

That therapist sounds like she’s hurting you more than helping you tbh

lea134

Date posted: 2y

@Mr. Solo Dolo Thank you for validating my feeling !

Honeyshark

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

Talk therapy makes ocd worse so you’re not alone. Go with ERP and revisit this once you’ve got your ocd better managed.

tayanominous

Date posted: 19w

Can therapist make you feel worse?

So I’ve been going to an ocd therapist for abt 2-3 months now and she’s starting to make me feel very nervous and anxious I even started crying, she wanted me to do exposures that were to much for me and I got rlly upset and Burt out into tears and she just didn’t say anything and just sat there for a good 10 seconds doing nothing this is starting to repeat nearly every session and I’m very frustrated should I get a new therapist or do I just be nice and tough it out?

Looping

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 18w

ERP/Therapy

I find while doing exposures, rarely does my anxiety lessen. It usually amps up and stays that way for the remainder of the day. I could be having a fairly decent day, but dutifully do my exposures and then the rest of my day is anxiety filled. I guess that’s just how it is now? Also, I’m wondering if my therapist even believes I have OCD. I totally understand my therapist cannot provide reassurance. But it’s to the point it seems my therapist acts like I actually did the thing I fear. I feel so isolated.

miagrace.

Date posted: 15w

therapist made my ocd worse

just been to therapy and i was explaining my contamination ocd and says i don’t diagnose ocd but this doesn’t seem severe enough? so now im spiralling am i just lying to myself and im just a freak. does she mean my other ocds aren’t real either? i’m just honestly so upset. need advice please im just spiralling so much i take medication for ocd and basically have every symptom and subtype of ocd:(

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