Ick from NOCD

Sometimes something just rubs me the wrong way and ruins it for me or I can’t get past it. For example it pissed me off how nocd listed someone as an optional therapist, well they had a massive list of therapist, and I did my due diligence by reading/watching all their bios to thoughtfully pick my top 3, only to get on a call with someone who books your first session, and have them tell me those therapist are not taking new patients and then continued to force feed me all these other options. I understand nocd is a business, they want to book appointments out, it guarantees a positive cash flow especially when health insurance is involved. When I said I’d wait until one of my top 3 were available they said no and then suggested I book my first appointment for the next day! I said I’m not in a hurry and I’d rather take my time since therapy is a big commitment and I’d rather not have to play musical therapist. (I booked my first appointment a month out and it’s here next week already). Anyway just had to get that off my mind, first session is next week and while they weren’t in my top 3 I’m still hoping to get closer to healing from ocd, and they seem like they are well qualified. I’m not trying to offend other therapists I just know who I’d probably click with and wanted to avoid having to switch.

Mid-life adults with OCD

Anonymous

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 10h

First, I just wanna say that I think NOCD is great and it’s really helped me and a couple of people I referred to them. That said there are things that bug me like trying to force me to do two sessions a week in the beginning when I didn’t think I needed it. Like constantly being reminded that you don’t have enough sessions booked in the future and the fact that they censor the heck out of the community. I have been a member for a year and a half and I have yet to see a bad review of a therapist which I think we are entitled to see. Whether I’m seeing a medical professional or a mental health professional I want to feel like a patient not a customer.

workingonthings

Date posted: 9h

@Anonymous Yes agree, and I also want to say I have really felt seen and like the community that’s here, just knowing I’m not alone in OCD has been a big change I needed. I’m glad NOCD exists. I just hate in a world where I’m being sold to left and right that a place I turn to for mental health help is also just another business praying on my need for help so they can make money. It definitely felt like I was being sold to when booking my first session, which makes me want to run in the opposite direction. But I need this community and I’m committed to getting better and if this is the place to do that I’ll be here, but I won’t waste time with a therapist who’s not a good fit, I’ll share an update after next week!

Anonymous

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 9h

@workingonthings Didn’t mean to come off too harsh. Hopefully, NOCD will be as helpful to you as it was to me. As you probably know you’re never really cured, but ERP has given me so much time back from doing compulsions. Plus, you’ll find a lot of of the therapists that work here actually have OCD themselves. That was one of the reasons I chose the one I did. They totally get it. I came here after several months of talk therapy, which made me feel good in the moment, but there was no discipline no plan. The community is extremely supportive, the tools in the app really helped me and I still listen to Dr. Patrick McGrath‘s webinar every Wednesday night. I wish you the best of luck in your journey!

workingonthings

Date posted: 9h

@Anonymous No not harsh, I was being harsh in my original post and I definitely don’t want it to scare anyone off the app, I needed to vent. I know it’s never really gone, I hope ERP helps and I know having support while working through it is what I need. I’ve done talk therapy before but it’s so easy to manipulate my way through that it doesn’t really help in the end. I’ve also tried SSRIs and ACT therapy which was unproductive and mind numbing. I know ERP will help and open my world up again since OCD has spread like cancer and made it feel so small. I’m nervous and excited and a bit angsty.

workingonthings

Date posted: 11h

And also this could be a form of ocd thinking people are always trying to take advantage of me!

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