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Bad Therapist Experience
(EDIT: Just to clarify; i don’t currently have a therapist through NOCD, this was in person where I live.) Has anybody had a really bad therapist experience that made your OCD symptoms worse? I’m in the middle of a horrible flare up of ROCD, and my therapist who helped me find out I have OCD left last month. I had an appointment with my new one today, which I was looking forward to. I go to the appointment, and the first thing she tells me is, “you’ve been in therapy quite a long time… what exactly is it that you’re looking to happen?” and just something about her phrasing felt odd. She said, “I’m just unsure what to do with you, help me get a better understanding.” So I tell her I want help managing my OCD, and I very quickly open up about my ROCD because i was dying to externalize it. Very quickly I also start crying, she said she isn’t used to people crying in the first session, that ut usually happens after a couple. After explaining that I don’t want to break up with my boyfriend but I’m fixated on persistent intrusive thoughts, she gives me a funny look and says she’s never heard of ROCD before, that that sounds like anxiety or self sabotage. I told her that ROCD is categorized by constant rumination, googling genuine doubts vs anxiety, checking feelings, etc. She said, “Oh, so you always do that when relationships are ending?” Hearing the phrase relationship ending triggered me and really fed my OCD’s voice, because I don’t want this relationship to end. She then asks if I have any other things I focus on and I told her I have health OCD and explained to her the constant googling of symptoms. She said, “you’re a teacher, surely you know not everything you see on google is accurate. That seems like it’s making you more anxious.” I said that I know that but I can’t make myself stop when I get anxious. All in all it was just awful, and really made me question everything.