Unable to afford therapy need tips.

I’m doing ERP with my therapist and a lot of it is just trying to sit in the moment and allow anxiety to calm down on its own, so for instance, I was having a really hard time with anxiety the other day and I was parked waiting for my nanny kid to get out of school and she had me sit with the anxiety and instead of thinking about the thing that was making me anxious she said whenever any type of thought comes up whether it’s negative or not just replace it with “Nope I’m just sitting here waiting for school to let out” and she had me do that for about 20 minutes and every couple minutes, she would check in to see where my anxiety level was. And slowly it did get lower, so that’s been a very frequent thing for us to do, is replace the negative with a thought of what we’re really doing in the moment and then just kind of letting the anxiety fall on its own because you’re not focusing on what’s making you anxious. It sucks but I have seen small areas of improvement unfortunately since that my OCD has latched onto a new theme so we’re kind of back in a spiral and I haven’t been able to see my therapist since it started so that sucks but the theme that we were working with is almost nonexistent now due to these exposures or at least, it’s very quiet compared to how it used to be.

Before the pills and therapy I was doing all my research by myself through therapist on social media and Google, learned that a lot of the self help books go ocd are outdated but I still search for up to date books. I did a lot of exposure therapy on my own and writing in the notes app. Grounding techniques were a big help as well. And so was finding others that relate, real ppl and fictional characters. Btw Nocd has a YouTube and a vimeo! Good luck!