applied for therapy but they don’t take my insurance lol!!! not quite sure what to do anymore, does anyone know anything that i can do to cope or self erp while im waiting to find another therapist?
look for therapists in your area using psychology today. i unfortunately was on the same boat as you (places i wanted to go to either didn’t accept my insurance or had a long waitlist) but i was able to find a therapist that specialized in anxiety disorders and OCD. on the website itself, you can tweak the filters to find therapists that specialize in specific disorders, insurance they accept, whether or not they have a sliding scale, etc
@ToniTulipTree oh wow i’ll definitely check that out thank you!!
@figgymarie of course! hope you get the help you need ASAP! stay strong
Take baby steps to live your life as you would, stay away from the triggers maybe? Talk, talk to someone too!
@Viny i will definitely try to keep doing that! it’s just the thoughts and rituals are so life consuming yk? and i feel like i can’t really talk to anyone in my life because they wouldn’t understand what im saying
@figgymarie I totally understand, the mental and physical compulsions are a pain and yeah I feel isolated too, and yes is hard to explain but finding people who will support you even if they don't totally grasp the concept of what is happening to you is also very important, not only that it's necessary to not let the OCD stop you from living and doing things you enjoy.
@Viny thank you i’ll try to keep that in mind:)
@figgymarie And if you want to talk I'm here too
If that’s still not an option, look into Nathan Peterson’s online OCD course which is a fee.
@Nica yeah sadly i’ve checked most places out here and if they do take my insurance there’s a wait list, and i’ll check out the ocd course thank you!
AGONY aghhhh that freaking sucks... I'm not sure what specific themes/symptoms you're experiencing, but what helps me is making my intrusive thoughts as silly as possible. A big one for me is that there will be a murderer in my house the second I walk in. I tell myself, okay, yes. But the murderer will come at me with an inflatable hammer. And they have a big "I LOVE MY MOM" heart tattoo. And they're eating soup with a comically large spoon. And they have a parrot that's mimicking their slurps. Now the intrusive thoughts are a little less scary.
@hemlocctea that’s such a good idea i have that murderer thought whenever im home alone, so i’ll definitelyyyyy be using that method! thank you!
Look for a therapist in your area if you haven’t already done so.
@Nica sadly all of the ones that do take my insurance are booked out for monthssss
I tried contacting NOCD, but they said that they didn't accept my insurance, and even if they did, I'd have to provide co-payment. I felt devastated because I'm afraid of going to a therapist who will misunderstand me. I can't afford therapy at the moment but I might be able to in a few months. Are there any alternatives for self therapy?
Everyday just gets worse and worse and there’s no way to escape the cycle. This constant feeling of dread and guilt I can’t stand it. I have no one to talk to about any of this because I have a fear of them thinking of me different and I don’t like putting my problems on people it just makes me feel like I want attention or something like even when I’m writing this paragraph. I’m stuck in a constant loop. Constant aggressive thoughts and compulsions. I’m 18 and I don’t know about any of my insurance or anything so I can’t get a therapist on here and I really don’t wanna talk to my mom about any of this. I dread having to wake up everyone morning and continue with this shit all day every day. I hate complaining but I just can’t stand this. I don’t know what to do. I’m slowly losing every inch of my mind.
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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