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Canigetswitness1992- I understand this is such a frustrating process and that ERP can seem to be an ass backwards way to approach things sometimes. However, remember that if the therapy seems illogical, the disease is also partially illogical. This is because the disease comes from the amygdala (the fear center of the brain). This is a more primordial part of the brain and comes before the logical part of our brain sorts the messages. Therefore, our brain doesn’t respond to logic on these issues because it’s not the logic part of our brain that’s broken.
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Same! I keep looking back it’s a nervous habit
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How big of a probability do you think this could be 1 in 10? 100? 1000? Is this an acceptable level of risk to deal with?
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Writing a script about your worst nightmare scenario around this and then recording yourself saying it or rewriting it until you are bored
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Forget about intentionally dropping money. What’s the worst case scenario if you accidentally did drop money? What happens if you don’t check?
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Logically, I'm not going to habituate to sticking my hand in a dirty toilet OR eating off the floor OR making things out of place/backwards on purpose. I logically see that those things are not completely habituable, therefore it's not the OCD, or me, it really is the therapy. It doesn't make sense. I don't want to do it anymore because ERP is making me worse, but anytime I try to walk away it's "you haven't habituated enough. Go mess things up. Get uncomfortable. Habituate to the way you don't like things." No, it's really awful. The therapy is awful in that it puts you in a box & it's impossible to escape.
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How would therapy work for this?
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One therapist told me I needed to actually drop money on the floor & habituate to that. However, I don't think I would, even without OCD. Wouldn't the primary goal just be to stop checking for money (cut out the compulsion).
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I like the idea of intentionally dropping money.
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I don't understand why though.
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If someone were to drop a $5 bill on the ground on purpose, they'd pick it up and put it back in their wallet.
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Heck, if I, in reality, dropped bills on the ground, I would pick them up, would anyone else not? I don't understand.
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This therapy is torture.
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It goes against all my values.
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What happens if you worry that you’ve dropped money somewhere but you don’t go back and check?
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Oh I understand no going back to check. That makes sense. Experience the obsession, but don't perform the compulsion. But to actually drop money on the ground and leave it there? Why?
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That's torture. Would you go out and drop a $20 bill on the ground and just leave it there intentionally. And do that over and over and over again? No. Because money is not cheap to come by
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Ok, but what If I don't drop money all the time on purpose, that makes me a failure?
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My issue is exposure therapy it doesn't make sense. Even if i dropped money all day, or put my hand in poop all day or ate of the floor all day or made things backwards on purpose all day, I'm never going to habituate to these things because I'm a human being. I deserve to not be doing backwards/weird/unethical stuff 24/7.
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- 11w ago
What ERP or other techniques do you use to combat fear of cancelation? Especially curious about those with taboo thoughts, false memory ocd and event ocd based off of real events where the fear of cancellation may actually hold some validity. I once did my own ERP not under a therapist but just on my own I decided to create an anonymous account on Twitter and defend a friend who was receiving online criticism. I knew that this would be semi-controversial so I was expecting backlash and when I recieved troll replies it actually seemed to be a really helpful low-stakes exposure activity. Is this something that others have done? Low stakes online posts etc. that you know will recieve negative responses? I have had severe OCD as a kid as pretty much every subtype under the sun, and as an adult I pretty much have all the types under control except for this real event and false memory and taboo thought OCD. It seems like a different beast since it's somewhat realistic in the camcellation culture today, and it's confusing to address. Ive shut down almost all social accounts and it's keeping me from progressing in a career where I need to have an online presence :/
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Can I hear some examples of specific parts of ERP that has helped you? I've been doing talk therapy for a few years and the major issue I have with it is that I already have analyzed all of my problems from every angle, so I'm kind of just sitting there yapping about it for an hour. I need solutions and things that make me feel better.
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Very brief mentions of pocd and nsfw jokes,id like this to be adults only . Repost bc i had to edit something Does anyone have experience with real event ocd attached to your online footprint etc? I keep checking old messages,trying to find old people i knew i used to talk to etc. To find out every problematic thing I did and if I've ever been unfollowed or blocked by anyone I used to be friends w online/atleast on good terms w. I am particularly concerned abt doing something bigoted,esp racist bc i have racism ocd,and doing something predatory bc of my pocd. I remember hanging around people who could use 'edgy' or offensive humour in my teens and i remember a lot of sex jokes and that i would join in on sex jokes sometimes . i dont remember details w the offensive humour as much,i feel like i didnt join in on it as much but i was definitely WAY passive abt things and prob let a lot of bad stuff slide i shouldnt have bc i didn't speak up it was wrong,I remember one friend in an online community would say slurs and horrible jokes when i was 16. I dont remember my response to it as much but i feel i didnt speak up abt it aside one time i found in the dms where he made a bad joke on a thing i shared for social justice. I cant stop going thru old messages and stuff or trying to find ppl from the past. I feel like if I don't check it now,that eventually it'll come to haunt me or that I'll stumble across it eventually. I worry what if someone messaged me on one of these apps I un-installed or on one of the accounts I don't have access to,confronting me abt all this stuff I did. I had an obsession w this back in 2020 and did check in depth on all my accounts,but now that it's been 4 years the obsession is back in full swing.
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