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Any therapists able to help with my situation?
Any therapists able to help with my situation?
Hi there, I am happy to offer some advice and a listening ear. I’m not a therapist, but I’ve been dealing with OCD for most of my life.
@MichelleV I comment above about my situation.
@Hi_123 Absolutely. What’s going on?
@Kell01 OCD will latch on to what you value, and usually without warning. I can tell that you love your son and your time with him. So it’s not surprising that some intrusive thoughts came up. In my (non professional) opinion, asking your son to sleep in a different bed sounds like avoidance. If you aren’t sure, ask yourself what the purpose of him sleeping in a different bed is. Is it to ease your mind, or is it for a milestone (like him growing older, etc). I would also suggest you don’t try to prove your thoughts wrong, or try to figure out how it could or could not have happened. Doing so doesn’t ease the intrusive thoughts, it tends to make them stickier. If you are not already seeing an OCD therapist, I highly suggest considering it. ERP will challenge you, but it gives you so much of your life back from the thoughts.
@MichelleV Thank you for the advice. I’m am trying to seek an ocd therapist where I live and NOCD doesn’t take my health insurance. Thank you for the help!
@Kell01 Try looking on the IOCDF website for therapists in your area / that accept your insurance.
@Hi_123 Hi there, I saw your question over whether you have OCD/talk about your struggles. Do you want to elaborate?
@Hi_123 No, I don’t see that. Was it on a separate post?
Hey there, therapist here! I read your comment with your concerns, thank you for the vulnerability and kudos on seeking support and guidance. I would encourage you to not get too caught up into categorizing the obsession, this is often a trick OCD uses to keep us stuck. To move forward, we just simply challenge any obsession with response prevention, no matter the content. I'll link a few resources below with ideas on how to respond to obsessions. If you are looking for assistance, please feel free to hit the therapy button - we would be happy to assist if we can. No one has to live in fear of their own thoughts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riKw294RZMw&t=126s https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/effective-ways-you-can-respond-to-unwanted-thoughts
@Hi_123 - Hey there! NOCD is here for just that thing! Please just hit the therapy button to connect with our team- we would be happy to assist if we can. No one has to live in fear of their own thoughts.
@Jennifer Dalimonte Unfortunately NOCD doesn’t take my current health insurance. Thank you for the advice.
@Kell01 - I am so sorry to hear that. Please feel free to use all of our free resources on our website www.treatmyocd.com and our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@treatmyocd/featured. You could also look through therapist listings on www.iocdf.org to see if there is an ERP specialist who has the ability to work with your insurance company.
@Hi_123 - Hi there, unfortunately a therapist cannot offer this service unless you are an active therapy Member with them. It would be outside the parameters of their licensure. As you are able, please seek guidance from a clinician who is able to work with your insurance company. While the reassurance it is OCD sounds helpful, it is only the first step in truly challenging OCD and taking back your life. You can comb through potential clinicians on the IOCDF website at www.iocdf.org. Best of luck!
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@Anony1314 I'm not a therapist but also a person who struggles
@Anony1314 I had this thought of “what if” I touched my son inappropriately last night while I was sleeping and I don’t remember. That night we went to sleep as normal and the next morning I woke up feeling good and this came up and has me questioning myself. I’ve been dealing with Pocd and I never thought something like this before. A little back ground my son is 5, nonverbal and sleeps next to me every night. For me, I am not much of a deep sleeper. I am somewhat of a light sleeper. So I’m up at every little movement he makes or unusual sound. Plus thinking about it if I was too say touch him I wouldn’t know how. I hate that now I have to think about him sleeping separately from me because I would love to cuddle with him and he’s the sweetest boy ever and me thinking I did that is soul crushing. I do remember the times I got up and it had nothing to do with touching. Does this fall within intrusive thought or false memory? Have you been though this if so I could use some help.
@Kell01 Hey! Yes I think this sounds like false memory and instructive thoughts. OCD attaches itself to what you care about most, which is your son. It's making you question yourself. It's not you. It's the OCD
@Anony1314 Also him sleeping in a diffent bed from now on, would that be avoidance? Shall he keep sleeping next to me
Has anyone else had a rough start? I’m 4 sessions in and have had no actual ERP work happen, I have 2 different therapists because none have availability to meet 2 times a week. Both those therapists are not available for the next 2 weeks so now I’m going to see a new 3rd one. Each time I’ve seen a new therapist I feel like the whole first session is spent with them re explaining everything. I’m paying for this out of pocket because they don’t accept Tricare which is my insurance as a Retired Marine. So I’m 960 in, and honestly feel worse than when I started. I get zero suggestions on what to do between sessions and feel so incomplete after my session finishes. I feel like I’ve gotten more help asking chat gpt questions on EPR and how to deal with ROCD than I do in my sessions . Does anyone have any insight or helpful advice here?
I'm doing really, really not well, if someone could please have a conversation eith me under my recent posts that would be very helpful, I have no support right now and do not see any therapist until Thursday and this is urgent
I really need help. I am severely dissociated to where I can’t feel joy for anything at all. I’m stuck crying all the time. I have a history of emotional abuse from my father growing up so it’s made it really hard to trust people. He verbally abused me and never made me feel good enough. Then he died when I was 21 and I dont remember him telling me he loved me even then. Or a time when he meant it unless I accimplished something. It always felt empty. I tend to sabotage relationships and don’t mean to and find flaws in everything. I even get jealous of children and never wanted any in fears that I wouldn’t be as loved as much as them. And fear I would bring on the traits to them that my father did to me. I realize everything I do is an OCD compulsion and also I have such deep rooted fears. Fear of the future, but also the past. I loop about my husbands appearance even though I love him dearly and I dont want to think that way and it makes me sick. I think about the past and how he brought up things in confidence after we got married because he trusts me and he felt ashamed, but it still spiraled me out due to my own insecurities and my brain is like “what if you never accept his past and can’t move on from it”. Finding out new info spirals me out even if it’s something I know he legitimately cannot change or control and it was not anything that someone should not have been able to move on from. Even though I have a past myself???? That is 20x worse than his. My brain adds extra meaning. I constantly fear that I’m being cheated on or will be left, or how things can go wrong at any point. I’m afraid of having kids because of what I just mentioned as well as the fear of medical intervention and something going wrong. I’m afraid of people dying. I’m afraid of people hating me and I’m a huge people pleaser. I feel like everything in life I’ve never done for myself, and I have a huge fear of being by myself. I have constant compulsions and have since I was a child. But right now I’m at a breaking point and I’m like what do I want to even live life for if I’m so jealous and afraid of everything. And I never do things for self enjoyment. I have like no self identity at all and I always feel like I have to tell people about my achievements or how I feel in hopes that the little girl inside me will be heard. Am I too far gone with having these thoughts and also complex PTSD with the OCD? I feel like I’m stuck in a perpetual hell. I haven’t had a breakdown this bad since I was 11 years old. I spent 4 months crying and crying not knowing what was happening to me. Then I snapped out of it somehow. But I’m an adult now and it feels like my life is crumbling around me. I’ve been so scared to work because of fear of criticism due to the emotional abuse which I’m just now putting together… and also because of not trusting myself. I always ask for outside opinions. And I fear things going wrong all the time. I quit my last job due to POCD because I was working with children. And now that I’ve reached a point where I feel like there’s just ambiguous questions with no answers I felt a switch flip in my brain. For the worst. All my emotions shut off and it’s just been hell on earth with constant thoughts and dread and self loathing. I’m so tired of feeling afraid and alone. And I know a lot of it is a bunch of inner pain. I’m not even really looking for sympathy I just feel like I’m beyond help because of all I’ve been through. I can’t feel hope right now and it’s really scary. I have had pretty much every OCD theme there is and have lived my whole life in constant fear and anxiety. ROCD (main theme right now), POCD, HOCD, SOOCD, Health OCD (big one right now), existential OCD, religious OCD, fear that my husband and I won’t be together after we pass. Or that I’ll be replaced by another person if I were to die. Or if he dies before me. Plus I feel sad when friends say certain things or anything triggers abandonment. I am so caught up and I know it takes a mindset shift for this to all get better, but how with so much working against me? I’m so terrified. And I’m self hating so bad.
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