Help with starting therapy

You can start anytime. I started when I was in a pretty good place, and it was totally fine. You basically trigger yourself to do ERP, so it doesn’t really matter if still if coming up organically or not. You should definitely start now if you want to!

Hey :) my name is Liv I’ve been in NOCD for a little over a year and a couple tips/advice I’d like to share from my experience either ocd and NOCD are get a note book/ journal and write down regularly how you feel ect, what you did that day ect, then write down also on same page any intrusive thoughts you had that day and date the page so you have it to look back to come session day, cuz I’ve been in your boat many times and I’m sure you’ll have a day or 2 where we feel great and it’s day of session we don’t really have anything to talk about but that’s when the notes from previous days comes in handy you can see right in front of you “ okay today I feel good but last week on Wednesday on my way to town I had a intrusive thought about ___” and also I am sending this reassurance that you’re not alone with the inappropriate thoughts, and I was nervous and fearful of judgement to discuss them but in session is a very safe space to talk about it and from my experience the more times I did talk about it it got easier to say and also strengthened my confidence in who I am. I hope this helps and your NOCD journey goes amazing and is helpful in your everyday life

Start anyway! You need the help when the next wave comes. They will understand!

I’m starting again right now even though I went through 2 years with minimal episodes. I realized I needed help again to identify my compulsions and likely do ERP to stop me from doing so. I’m definitely scared too because ERP and even talking about it can be really triggering, but the whole point is to get to the root of the mentality behind why we do compulsions. So if you feel like that is still there, even if it’s little (you do seem to have flare ups every month?), you deserve therapy!