Hey for anyone who’s had to do erp for hocd because their psychologist told them to. When you do the pictures for exposure have they still stayed in your mind after looking at them? I’m only asking because it’s happening to me and I know it’s just hocd but it’s bothering me from the stand point looking at the pictures is supposed to help with my obsession not enforce the obsession more so I just want to ask. I know it’s a thought process but I thought I asked and want to know other people’s experience with looking at pictures for exposure therapy on HOCD.

When I look at the pictures I feel like I'm actually attracted-I hate it. It's normal to get them stuck in your head after looking at them so don't worry (not to reassure you)

I am curious about how you actually practice the ERP. How long, how often ? Are there particular types of images that are best? Thanks.

BrianB. I’m supposed to look at the pictures for 40 min and if I start to get thoughts and obviously my anxiety will shot up im just suppose to agree with it and make it worse by saying yup I’m totally gay now yup these guys are so fuckin hot I want kiss this dude so bad yup I might be Gay stuff like that. I’m doing it thought to actually get back the anxiety of the feared thought because I first did a self help and since I’m not an expert and was only diagnosing myself because I literally had all the symptoms but didn’t know until many months after that not only do I have OCD but it’s pretty bad OCD and I have other stuff too that make my OCD worse. The self help I got was from my.moodsmith.com which offers and hocd self help program but I would recommend you also seeing an ocd specialist who does work with hocd and sexuality ocd. I would’ve been done with mine a year ago but because I was still honestly scared that hocd wasn’t real I didn’t necessarily open up in the emails that I sent to people who are ocd specialist and I refrained from emailing guys who worked with ocd because of my fear. But I would basically recommend you to get the self help and also meet with an ocd specialist to get over your fear so you don’t make things worse for yourself the way I did. You’re probably scared to even meet with someone but go fuckin do it!!!!!!! I was scared and got me fucked up and if I can help someone else out with this shit to where they can live a happier life than ill help who ever because this shit is no joke and has ruined 4 and a half years of my life I can’t take back and has left me without a job and no friends anymore and I can’t even talk with my own brothers like normal because of this so go do exactly what I told you and anyone else who might read this do the same thing. I know you all probably have fear that someone will tell you you’re actually gay but if you are like me who had guy friends all his life and could watch tv like normal, talk to strangers like normal, talk to your brothers like normal and find when you’re dating a chick to be pleasant but hard and find when you get an erection because of her to be pleasant but embarrassing because you don’t want other people to see your erection haha and because building a relationship is hard than you will be fine and the truth will set you free.

Appreciate that Reese.

Look up Rose Breteche (not sure if I spelled the last name right) she had HOCD and sexual obsessions and recovered via ERP. ? not sure if she talks about this issue specifically but it might help

Thanks for the information