Community discussion: Your most-wanted OCD resource

Tips for when you can’t tell if it’s OCD or real

More real stories of recovery, not just the struggle

How to function when you feel like every move you make is gonna turn into something to worry about in a minute 🤯

I would like to know more about emotional contamination regarding people either and your family or friends. Worried about what other people might do that would set your OCD off and it makes you crazy because it’s out of your control.

more examples of what happens in therapy

Tips for when harm ocd is so debilitating you can’t function.

As a parent of a teen with both ADHD and OCD, I would like more options for support groups. Most of the groups we’d like to attend have only one time option and it doesn’t fit with his school schedule.

Guidance on what healthy reassurance looks like, and how to identify and avoid giving or seeking the type of reassurance that feeds and worsens OCD. Guidance on how to have conversations with loved ones about how they can support those of us with OCD lovingly and without enabling.

Like a group chat of people in my age group with ocd where we can talk about what’s bothering us and how loud our ocd can be sometimes 🫠

How OCD and PTSD interact and compound symptoms

More about OCD and ARFID. Or ones about OCD and Autism that dont minimize how autism is a disability too.

Dealing with rumination and self loathing

lists of phrases to try - additional options --maybe maybe not -- i have developed some of my own, wouldn't it be cool to have a tool where you put in what you are struggling with and phrases that are in your style - and could generate custom phrases that fit you. For example, i use "moving on" as a phrase but another person might have something that fits them better. it would be ideas not prescriptive

Tips for dealing with real event ocd. So much uncertainty over right & wrong. It’s paralyzing. ICBT resources to be more available without ppl guilt tripping you or acting like it’s bad to consider things that aren’t ERP.

Tips on dealing with paradox

A DM or message board that we can access to other people per their interest.

Partnership with Veteran Affairs

More intensive OCD dedicated ERP/ACT programs for when outpatient ERP once a week is not enough.

Better education on different communication types. Better education on how to help clients figure out why things aren't working when they aren't. Better listening skills.

Help with forgiving myself for a fleeting thought and perhaps a fleeting thought of acting on that thought one day even though I never did and never will and the fact I had that thought before my onset of OCD. Basically, memories of the past of thoughts that I had dismissed when my brain seemed more normal. Why did I have a bad perverted thought like that and think that one day I would act on it. This is really bothering me.

Honestly? Not a realistic one, but… a crystal ball 😂

Something that all doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, etc. need to read/study to have a better understanding of OCD so they can correctly diagnose and help people. Do you know how many years I suffered because the many therapists I went to didn’t know enough about OCD to diagnose me and/or give me the correct treatment?

NOCD one day being able to prescribe medication and medication management! And also NOCD possibly offering ICBT as well. ICBT is not the gold standard like ERP but the IOCDF says it’s a valid second line treatment for those who don’t respond as well to ERP.

Support groups for OCD + Grief (especially Anticipatory Grief) and ditto for more times for groups like ADHD + OCD, Depression + OCD and especially Chronic Conditions/Disabilities + OCD

Free OCD support groups, or crisis line

a support group for real event OCD and more resources around it would be amazing! Especially more recovery stories around people that struggled with that and recovered.

The motivation

More therapy or recognition/understanding/information on the trauma of having OCD. My therapist is wonderful but I know that's not typically what NOCD is geared towards.

As it applies to navigating treatment. That all psychology majors have at the very least an introduction or understanding of OCD.

Stay away from SSRI’s Doctors are and psychiatrist are legal drug dealers. Plant medicine can cure not treat That I will carry a weight nobody can even comprehend besides the individuals like on this page truly know the fear and pain it creates every single day One day at a time

Tips for how to start doing something when you are totally exhausted and find no energy and motivation to do things.

I'd be interested in learning about OCD and it's relation to different attachment styles, particularly within the relationship OCD context. Example: OCD with anxious attachment in a relationship with an avoidant.