Has anyone here recently had ERP therapy, and, if so, what was your overall experience with it? Did your symptoms improve and by how much? Thanks

My experience was really positive. I guess if my OCD was at a 10 out of 10 severity, it is now at a 2 out of 10 severity.

I went through ERP for about 7 months. It was my first time doing ERP and working with an OCD Specialist, so it was scary at first. But once I got into the swing of things, it became my new normal. It significantly improved my symptoms. I’d say by about 80%+. I was reaching the top of my hierarchy when covid hit, and I stopped doing therapy then. I think with the final push of the top of my hierarchy I could see even further results. I’m going to try to tackle it on my own, but understandably the pandemic made me take a break. I plan on restarting on my own soon where I left off. The experience has been invaluable. It had changed my relationship with my thoughts completely and I now understand so much more about myself and how my brain works. I feel better equipped to tackle problems now and in the future.

I’ve been doing ERP for over 2 months now. It’s the only thing that has really helped with OCD I can not recommend it enough. Before I felt I was barely functioning, in constant fear, thoughts would wreck me. Now I’m able to not only get though my days better but actually enjoy them more. OCD is sneaky and will try to get you from new angles, but with the techniques learned from ERP you are able to smother them more easily

I'm just starting it atm but we haven't really gotten right into it yet. But I did a think which is pretty similar to ERP using a book called Letting Go by David R Hawkins, which is about processing strong emotions in your body before acting on them or giving them meanings or drawing conclusions. I got past a very dark time in my life using that and it does work well for OCD so far (I was using it for strong feelings like fear and guilt from OCD before I knew I had OCD) but it's important to also address core beliefs which was at the bottom of the obsessions, so you can prevent getting more and have less strong belief in black and white ideas that the OCD presents you with.

So...it has helped me with my obsessive thoughts, but I think I had too many high expectations for it. I thought it would make my feelings come back z(I have relationship OCD) but for me it has actually not done that, just lowered my fear.