This experience has been so incredibly stressful.

Does she do erp and pocd and health ocd

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 Well, I assume all ERP specialized do every OCD subtypes. As an example, she told me about an ERP exercise she did with another patient of hers, it was with regards to Contamination, or Health Corncern OCD.

@Zoë_84 I can't sleep

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 I'm sorry

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 Want to know what helps me sleep?

@Zoë_84 I'm not trying to rant again but I feel like the attraction I'd getting a little too real with my pocd and that's a major problem beacuse I keep thinking about this scinarios with younger people in it and it's scaring me I don't even feel fazed by it im littlerly about to cry en beacuse it won't go away

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 The more you focus on your intrusions - no matter, if they pop up as thoughts, images, emotions, sensations, etc. - the more real they feel. Try to take a step back and breathe calmly.

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 Is this what does beacuse everytime I have to check and check to see if I'm attracted to this one younger person that's always popping up in my mind like from a TV show it's so scary it's like this just started happening I've always imagined movie scenes were younger people were in it but I didn't think anything of it and I would be like ok but this keeps popping up in mybhead now I keep trying to think of men but it's not working .....it's from the karate movie I new I shouldn't have watched it like..... I'm scared beacuse I wake up with anxiety in my chest evertime the character pops up what the hell does this mean

@Zoë_84 Like I feel numb I don't feel disgusted I'm trying to sleep and it's scaring me this is not normal

@Zoë_84 Like why do I keep thinking about this so much I don't want to but but it keeps popping up i wasn't even focused on this before and now I am it's disturbing......idk what to do.

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 Check if you are attracted to a minor is making your OCD worse, trust me. I have worried about it so much, when POCD started, that my mind never got a minute of rest.

@Zoë_84 This is is still ocd right beacuse the lingering feeling and anxiety will not go away

@Zoë_84 Like did you actually think you were attracted like you got anxiety in your chest and you felt like it would no go away I was trying to sleep but I could literally feel my heart pounding

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 Like I've always been attracted to men why do i feel it in my chest so strongly I have knots in my stomach and like anxiety tingly feeling like when I was watching the movie didn't feel anything I guess it just got worse like you can't just become attracted to something itbhas to be ocd

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 It keeps popping up, because you don't want it to pop up. OCD brings up disturbing intrusions and by our reaction to them, we either teach our brain, that the intrusions are important, or that they are not relevant. Worrying about them, checking, ruminating, seeking for reassurance, trying to push the thoughts away tells our brain "Thanks for bringing it up! These intrusions are of utmost importance!!!" and as a result, the OCD brain brings the intrusions up more. The more we give meaning to the intrusions, the more our brain focuses on them, creating a vicious cycle. Reacting calmly and thinking "Well, maybe I find that character/actor attractive, maybe not. Who knows." teaches your brain, that the intrusions are neither relevant, nor dangerous, therefore it will bring them up less.

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 You are asking for reassurance, which we are not supposed to give one another. What I can tell you though is, that doubting that what we suffer from is very common in OCD. It's 9 a.m. here, I have to start my day. Please try and get some rest.

Does Lourdes des Las heras kuhn take ambetter and cignma or sunshine health what type of insurance does she take my mom told me to ask you because I don't think I can't have her if she doesn't take that insurance

@Zoë_84 I've already booked a call with her tommarow at 5:00

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 I don't know. As I'm not from the US, I paid out of pocket. I suggest you contact NOCD ask them, if they take your insurance and, if Lourdes has a vacancy.

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 That’s not okay at all. I had my first intake today, and it was one of the worst appointments that I’ve had.

@I am soup A lady just called me and recommended me a group of therapists that specializes in pocd and ERP so that's good do you know of any therapists that do the pocd themes and self harm and health themes I tried looking on the app and it said most therapists just specializes in anxiety depression and other things.

@🦈🤍🫧ℛℴ𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯℯ🫧🤍🦈 I really had to search through their list to find somebody who I thought I could connect with. Unfortunately, you just have to really look at them all.