How do you cope without reassurance or compulsions

I posted earlier, this week has been one of the hardest days since when I was 15. I feel isolated and alone and feel like all the ERP and finding comfort in my diagnoses almost four years ago has crumbled. I tried doing ERP alone but was too triggering. I don’t have insurance at the moment and don’t want to ask the community for reassurance. Are there any tools or words of affirmation or comfort you’ve used in your dark OCD days?

overthinker1234

Date posted: 1y

just remember you aren’t alone. and remember that you are not your OCD and you are not your thoughts. think back to ERP and try to practice that now. have you considered trying meds? i know you said you don’t have insurance but if you get the goodrx app you can get meds for a decent price depending on what u get. you can ask your doctor to prescribe it to you

yessyess

Date posted: 1y

@overthinker1234 Thank you so much for sharing! It’s so hard to remember other people are going through the same thing, but it’s comforting! I used to take 200mg of sertraline when I was insured and decided to stop a year ago and considering going back on sertraline when I get insured next year.

overthinker1234

Date posted: 1y

@yessyess it totally is hard! Sometimes my mind will trick me into thinking that i’m a special case and that it isn’t ocd and that something really is wrong with me. it’s so nasty. and sometimes i believe it. that’s good! hang in there till then, you got it. check out goodrx, maybe you can get your meds cheap and start them sooner than later. i started taking fluoxetine and am waiting to see how it works since it takes a while to get into the system

overthinker1234

Date posted: 1y

anxietypoops

Date posted: 22w

The RP in ERP

Hi! I've been on my OCD healing journey for about half a year and I have seen a lot of success. I'm reaching out for advice, I am very willing to do exposures because I know the more I do them, the more I get better, but I struggle with the response prevention part. I don't know how to control my brain when it comes to facing the fears especially since most of my compulsions are mental. I can tell myself the typical things "I am okay with the uncertainty of this happening", etc. but its like my brain doesn't believe them. I've been stuck in this disconnect for a while and would love advice you have heard from a therapist or learned that has really help you.

Anonymous

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 21w

Without therapy for months . Please help. Please

I had to cancel my therapy because it was no longer available with my insurance. And I just kind of feel hopeless with OCD. Even when I was doing therapy, I think my OCD started getting too complicated for my therapist and she didn’t even know what to do. My fears are so complex it’s crazy. So my big fear is my OCD being bad and being super depressed again like I was a few months ago in high school. I attended a public highschool for a semester and started the worst flare up I’ve ever had. I was harshly bullied for no reason whatsoever, and not accepted by anyone. I am an athletic kid who usually keeps to himself so I didn’t understand why people targeted me, especially when I wanted nothing to do with them. From August to now ( March) I CANNOT grasp hold of my OCD. I am very hard on myself about it. Going into dangers anytime I see one so I can expose myself. But constantly obsessing about if I’m doing enough for my OCD. And comparing myself to how I use to be, before the flare ups. From the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep I’m obsessing about my OCD and if it’s bad and comparing. Another HUGE fear of mine is being treated differently because I have OCD. So being bullied for so long I always assumed it was because I was shy and didn’t want to stand up for myself - due to my OCD- so I blamed myself for everything that continued to happen, . from people bullying me in the past . The people at that highschool were downright crazy. Even the teachers and coaches had major issues and I’m so glad to be out of there, but I still obsess the same everyday and hold so much resentment for that school and when I try to let it go, I just feel more passive pain and obsess even more about it weather my ocd is okay or not. I feel mentally sick. Please someone give me some advice for my fears, because I feel like I’m doing everything in my power to expose myself to everything but nothings working.

Date posted: 18w

Help welcome

How to deal with dangerous harm ocd without a therapist… I’m on anxiety medicine and I’m on Zoloft, but I haven’t been able to get a therapist yet still saving money I try to just like ERP sit with the fears. I’m very weak in this moment cause I’ve had a breakdown mentally I went to hospital and when I try to sit through the fears usually becomes too much for me. Any suggestions?

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