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Trauma, as in trauma from OCD? OR other life experiences?
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Trama like childhood
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yes I think some of us need trauma treatment, however that looks like. Though I‘m not sure if all OCD is caused by childhood trauma
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OCD isn’t caused by trauma — as far as we know. It may be exasperated by it or come up in your OCD themes, but the cause of OCD is complex and not totally understood. It’s probably a combination of genetic and environmental factors. But think about how many people have trauma and DONT end up with OCD? If there were a direct correlation, we’d know. You can see a regular therapist for trauma. But if you don’t have your OCD under control first, treatment will be quite complicated and likely ineffective. Treat OCD first, then secondary issues.
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Omggg idk cause my therapist said she’ll do trama treatment first and then ocd. Idk any other therapist that can help in my area maybe online but I’m not comfortable......
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psychological connections are never directly linked as cause and effect. The only one who can find out the truth about their own lifes are we ourselves, not experts. I find a connection to trauma in my case. If I‘d deal only with ocd symptoms it would be reductive. And if you follow only ERP there is NOTHING about your personal story in it, nothing about your family, that is a blind spot. For some, ERP can also be retraumatising, tjat‘s at least what some around here write
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So is ocd linked in my family
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Is it normal to think your therapist does not know how to treat ocd? What is a good therapist in ocd?
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Anyone else here with complex trauma and ocd? How did u find they correlate with each other? Possibly the trauma causing ocd? Have you found any mind blowingly obvious connections? Healing your trauma helps with ocd symptoms? I recently found out I have cptsd and have been abused by my family growing up physically and verbally. Btw still living with them and my ocd gets significantly worse or better sometimes.I have so many questions.❤️🩹
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Hi! I’m trying to say this story as short as possible. I started realizing I was having an ocd flare up a long time ago and I chose private psychotherapy because I thought it would be better. I had a bunch of other issues and I wanted one quick (I had tried 2 before) and when I met someone that I felt was kind of okay I trusted them with my ocd. The thing was that she was NOT specialized in ocd, in fact, looking back I realize that she barely knew how to handle it at all. I had a really good one when I was younger and I was not having symptoms when I quit years ago, so it surprised me a LOT that all I had learned got unlearned because I trusted a bad psychologist. I have currently Rocd and a bit of compulsive staring as well, plus tricomania. I really really want to warn you, DON’T LET A NON OCD SPECIALIST GIVE YOU ADVICE OR ERP!!!!! It has taken me a while to realize all the damage she did. But I was so desperate for a solution at the time that I ignored the signs. She had no idea what she was doing and she actually asked me what we should do! She also made my staring worse, because she told me to try to not look (which is actually wrong), she also asked me if I was really in love with my partner, EVEN THOUGH I HAD NO DOUBTS AT THE TIME!!! She thought that I actually wanted sex with someone else and was like yeah it’s normal some people do that, instead of understanding my feelings and that I actually didn’t want to, but it was an intrusive thought. (It was very different from the classic: you know what maybe maybe not erp thing) She misunderstood everything and I now have to rewire my brain.
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