I’ve done therapy in 4 others places, this being my 5th. It’s truly unfortunate how difficult it is to originally find the right therapy. First several therapists just thought I had an issue with being gay and didn’t tell me about OCD. My first three therapists we’re great people, with big hearts, but couldn’t serve me much beyond normal talk therapy. Then came my first OCD Specialist. It worked okay. I got better-ish. But they were 3X the price of my current treatment here. My therapist here, has helped me gain at least 50% more results, so far (session 6), and for 1/3 of the price of other services. In business, things become better, faster, more convenient, etc. that is exactly what has happened here at NOCD. They are serving a massive market without price gauging their eyes out like the existing other specialists. Here at NOCD, they are serving a wildly underserved portion of the market. I can’t imagine all the disenfranchised people who couldn’t afford the right service, finally being treated for affordable rates. Best thing? It’s an in and out program. All of my other therapists said OCD is chronic, and will need to taken care of over life. They wanted my $$$!!!!!! They fed me Lies lies lies and wanted my money. NOCD wants you healed and on your way, so you can live life and they can help more people. I would invest a lot of money into NOCD. Maybe I should. Let me know!!! Love y’all, be safe. And do your exposure exercises. I’m doing flash cards everyday, with verbiage that says “I might (insert fear)” or “others might think...” doing it everyday voluntarily helps push the scariness away and I feel more like old me. With Love, Brock

Sure. Life is about systems. Systems are either working for you or against you. In my case, my systems ie doing nothing about my OCD, made things worse. Today, I have a running list of any thought that causes me to suffer or ruminate. This is in my notes app on my phone. As I’m going about my life, if I notice something that bothers me, I jot it down there. Then between 8-9pm every night, I create a flash card for the newest suffering points and add them to my pile. Find a time that works for you. I always leave a couple extra flash cards so it can be a “living collection” meaning I add to it as life goes. It is now a lot of flash cards, but that’s okay because it’s allowing me to live a fuller life by attacking them all. For instance, let’s say I’m walking in public and see an attractive guy (I’m a straight man). And my OCD says omg maybe you like him. I notice myself ruminated for a few minutes. Did I like him? Did I think he’s attractive? Etc etc So, I pull out my phone and jot it down. Later, I’ll add it into my flash cards with the verbiage “I might (allowing for uncertainty) be gay.” I might also add, “others might think I’m gay.” What does this whole process do? It allows me to collect things that bother me throughout the day and then a time and place where I work on my exposures. Overtime, I’ll have the bulk of the things that bother my in my daily flash card collection that I read for 60 minutes daily. I imagine 3 months from now I’ll have 99% of my regularly ruminations written down and hopefully they’ll all be “boring” to me by then. As they say here, boring is good. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the tips on index card therapy! Pioneered by dr. Stephen Phillipson

Can you explain what you do with the flash cards