Anonymous
- Date posted
- 33w ago
What is ERP?
Can someone tell me how ERP works and give a particular example of an exposure and how its carried out? i need to know if its in addition to CBT or a part of it or something.
FantasodaFantasoda
- Date posted
- 33w ago
It’s kinda like a facing your fears typa deal. For example if knives were the exsposure, I’d hold one and attempt to refrain from any compulsions. Or if it’s mental, you’d try to allow thoughts to be there without mentally reviewing it. In the end it’s learning that your greatest fears are least likely to happen, & ERP is used to support that.
SomaticSun🌤️SomaticSun🌤️
- Date posted
- 32w ago
@Pepsicola Mental compulsions are tough as hell to deal with. They can be so automatic. Then you do ERP to just allow them to be there without responding, and that in itself becomes another compulsion, trying to NOT engage. You can hyper-fixated on that too. How do you win? I don’t know
NicaNica
- Date posted
- 33w ago
-What is ERP therapy: https://iocdf.org/about-ocd/ocd-treatment/erp/ -What’s An OCD Trigger? https://psychcentral.com/ocd/what-is-an-ocd- -What’s Pure O OCD? https://www.verywellmind.com/pure-o-primarily-obsessional-ocd-4159144 -OCD vs. GAD Differences: https://ocdla.com/ocd-vs-gad-7071
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CorgiLove
- Date posted
- 23w ago
ERP Newb
Happy Tuesday friends. Question for you all: I have recently started ERP therapy (about one month ago) and I feel in a way it has helped. But I also notice that I feel the thoughts I do have are SO intense that I feel like I’m gonna explode and then I’ll cry and get upset but then feel better after having a “freak out”. Does this happen to any of you guys? Also, I told my therapist yesterday some of the exposures we had been doing made me uncomfortable. Like really really uncomfortable. She made me feel a little bad about not doing it and stated this would prolong my progress if I didn’t do it. I’m not sure if I should push my self to do this exposure because she told me to or to stick up for myself and move at my own pace. Thanks everyone.
vaIentine
- Date posted
- 16w ago
i cannot do ERP
i don’t think i can, i can’t stomach the possibility of these things, or maybe i can (because they might be true and deep down i know that) and just don’t want to and want to pretend it isn’t there. i can’t do ERP, i just want to pretend it isnt there and won’t happen to clarify, i know i have to do ERP, i know it’s necessary; i don’t need to be told this, this is just how i am feeling currently
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