I am wanting to go to therapy to hopefully lower my OCD symptoms but I am terrified to tell anyone else, like a therapist, about my intrusive thoughts. Has anyone else had this experience and if so how did you get over it?
Please make sure, that you start therapy with a therapist specialized in treating OCD with ERP. Therapists who are not specialized in OCD might misdiagnose you - which happened to me many years after I got correctly diagnosed - and/or offer the wrong for of therapy, e.g. talk therapy. A therapist who is specialized in OCD is surely educated on all the subtypes, including the taboo ones and understands your struggles.
I've been telling therapists my fears since I was very young. You just have to remember if it's OCD (which it is) it means it isn't real and that the therapist has probably heard it before and is there to help you not to hurt you. I remember something very disturbing and distressing to me...I had to call my therapist and schedule an appointment for the following day but then when I got there she made it sound so simple. Don't be afraid 🤗
Always tell your therapist everything. Even if your thoughts are so horrifying that a random person on the street might recoil in fear if you told them. Your therapist won't be surprised. That's why they're here.
This is a rather consistent fear that I hear from people. It is also why we train and train and train our therapists. We do not want anyone to be afraid to talk about their obsessions. We want to create a safe place for anyone to tell us about their obsessions and get the help that they need. Know that there are people out there willing to assist you.
Hi everyone, I wanted to reach out to see if anyone else has experienced something similar with OCD and intrusive thoughts. I’ve been struggling during moments of intimacy because intrusive thoughts, particularly ones related to POCD, feel so ‘sticky’—like they’re all I can picture. Even though I really want the thoughts to go away, they persist, and I’ve been trying not to avoid intimacy because of them. However, that makes me feel like I’m somehow ‘enjoying’ the thoughts or images, which I really dislike. It’s like my brain is playing this awful trick, and it’s leaving me feeling confused and gross. I guess I’m supposed to not let the thoughts bother me and continue as if nothing’s wrong, but I’m scared that by doing so, I’m almost training myself to get off to them or something. This fear makes it so hard to trust myself in those moments, and it’s been overwhelming. If anyone else has been through this, how do you handle it?
So I've had OCD since I was a child. Like really young. The first intrusive thought I can remember was when I was 5. It just keeps getting worse and lately they've been making me physically ill or throwing me into extreme panic attacks again ( ones where I can't move my body ) the other night I thought God was trying to kill me because I was thinking about ending myself from OCD+ life issues but in reality I was just having a panic attack😭😭it affects me daily. It gets a little better with therapy but I don't see therapy coming into my life any time soon and I'm not even sure if I would want to go (for multiple reasons). To wrap this up if you have severe ocd can you tell me what it's like?? I don't want to label anything without proper research and hearing others perspectives. Thank you!! <3 (My profile says all of my subtypes if that helps any)
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