Staring an Intensive Outpatient Program on Monday and am BEYOND nervous. I'm so scared all my worst fears will come true. I want to back out. If you've done this and have any words of encouragement, please share 🥺
I have been in intensive outpatient care before, this year actually, after i attempted s**cide. close to 5 hours of therapy a day plus medication management by a psychiatrist. let me tell you, it may not have been the specific kind of therapy for OCD, but getting on the right medication and being able to talk with therapists really helped me. i went from not being able to sleep at night yo sleeping for 9+ hours and not being as affected by my intrusive thoughts and obsessions. it was an overall positive experience for me, and I encourage you to keep your mind open to the experience. they personnel that run these programs are usually very attentive, so your progress will be closely monitored and they will do everything they can to help you feel better. be honest in therapy about how you are feeling too — it will really benefit the experience. good luck, i’m rooting for you!
Thank you so much for sharing your vulnerable story. I appreciate you and am so glad it helped. Luckily it is an OCD program ❤️
Wow I’m eager to hear more about how this goes for you. I’ve never thought of doing it before but now I am
Hi I kept seeing this app on repeat on TikTok over and over and I thought I give it a shot. I have never been diagnosed with OCD but I know that I have it. I’m a young adult and I found out the first time I had OCD was watching lelelons truth video? I was 14 at the time She had to resist sitting back down in a chair after her having sat down she started having a mental break down when she was told to resist. That’s when I knew. It started with myself going up and down a staircase twice buckling unbuckling my seat belt everytime I’m in the car ect I have always been super anti social but trying my best I can socialize but my mind wants to make it sexual with family and friends ughhhh I hate it because that’s not me when I graduated thoughts of hurting my loved ones corrupted my mind I broke down outside of church one time asking if this was really me or not i question if I’m a good enough friend or person in this world to begin with thinking everyone is judging me so so close how can I make this situation better did I do something wrong I struggle with depression as well not to bad but it’s there I come from a loving family but broken as well i believe in god and my OCD makes me go often he’s not real that stuff isn’t real no one is there to save you the list goes on. Anyway I struggle a lot and I really hope that this will help me because I feel extremely hopeless. Lucky for me I do have the ability to seek therapy and I am excited. The only person I ever tell my thoughts to is God no other human has heard so I’m really really hoping this helps me out if your reading this thank you it means a lot because this is my first time ever admitting all this it’s a lot to take in I know and I hope you are ok and that you have a great night and know that we got this
So you got to ask me anything… Now I’d like to ask you something! I’ve heard from Members that they were so scared coming to their first ERP session. They were terrified that I would think they were crazy, that I would tell them their worst fears were true. That I would confirm they are some form of a terrible person or have them hauled off to prison for their thoughts. I’ve also had Members share how they’re very scared to begin ERP treatment because they’ve researched enough to know it means facing the fear, without the compulsions that have kept them feeling safe (but not really safe) this entire time. They struggled to see how they could be capable of doing this, while simultaneously acknowledging that they did not want to live like this anymore. If you have had your first session, what were your thoughts before? Did you have any hesitations or fears going into it? How did it turn out? If you haven’t yet begun to work with an ERP specialist, what is holding you back?
i am starting NOCD therapy on monday and was just curious on others’ experiences! what happens in your sessions, generally speaking? how do you feel during and after? i’m excited but also nervous to start. i’ve been in talk therapy for years with minimal improvement with my ocd, so im hopeful to start feeling better.
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