acrazy23
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Still in Therapy
Has anyone else been in therapy for over a year and still struggling?
NicaNica
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I’ve been in therapy since I was about 4 years old. I have MANY mental illnesses though. However, you do have to accept that you most likely will need to have therapy for the rest of your life—whether that means weekly or just a few times a year. But that doesn’t mean you’re broken; that just means you have to do a bit extra to be and stay better with a mental illness or mental illnesses compared to people without mental illnesses.
TeagreyTeagrey
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Yes! Overall, I am so much better then when I started. But it's not gone, and I don't think it will ever be gone. Its often "lurking in the background" & sneaks up on me sometimes. To me success is learning manage my OCD by learning and practicing effective strategies. I think of it like a chronic physical issue like diabetes- it's not going to go away for good/ever but there is a lot I can do to combat it.
Honeyshark Honeyshark
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 32w ago
Yes, I had to switch therapists. I also did Nathan Peterson’s OCD course. I did weekly calls with my new therapist for three months and I’m feeling so much better. I’ve been practicing my exposures 3x a day and working hard at my ROCD.
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- Date posted
- 21w ago
Does anyone struggle with Somatic OCD?
I’ve been struggling with this for the part year and it’s been horrible I hate my life and I feel like nothing works , please help or feel free to share tips or your own story
OrMsB
- Date posted
- 14w ago
Don’t know what to do anymore
Hi, I don’t know what to do anymore Pocd kills me I had many themes before but this theme is the hardest for me. I’m tired. I’m on therapy and meds but I barely do erp . I don’t have a reason I just don’t want to do it but today I will because I have to. I’m taking meds and they help with the anxiety for sure. But the obsessive part is still here . I’m almost 2 months on it (40 mg on Prozac) but I’m still super obsessed like I can have thoughts 24/7 every second of the day and not leave me alone. I have experienced a thought right now for a month + . It’s a thought to do compulsion/urge. My therapist says to let go and gives me tips how to she also tell me to do more erp. But I have this thought to do compulsion for more then month. Im scared what if I don’t have ocd the thought is 24/7. Do you think I should switch meds im so tired.
JH202462
- Date posted
- 14w ago
Anyone else experience this?
I feel like in some ways receiving a diagnosis for OCD has in some ways made things worse. I’ve always had what I called “phases” throughout life, which I now know were ocd episodes, but I didn’t really make too much of them and even if it was over several long difficult months, they’d always seem to kind of just pass. Recently I’ve begun my worse flare up in the last few years and now that I’m older I seemed professional help which led to my diagnosis. This all sounds great of course but I can’t actually afford therapy right now so I kinda just have the diagnosis but not the support so now that I realize these phases are actually this incurable mental illness I just feel like I’ve lost all hope that I’ll ever be happy and I feel like I basically obsess about obsessing at this point and it just sucks. Has anyone else had this or a similar experience?
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