Diego
- Date posted
- 4y ago
EstridEstrid
- Date posted
- 4y ago
You shall write scripts in first person "I....", with details, and touching the,wors case scenarios or maybe, maybe not statements. After a while it gets boring, but that's no problem.
DiegoDiego
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Ok Thanks for the tips
NickerinoNickerino
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I'm actually going through the same thing! The visual exposures were causing much more anxiety, but the imaginal script I had to do this week, not so much. I did a visual exposure yesterday instead of the script reading because of this. It's weird because the script was scary when I was writing it with my therapist, but now it's not very effective. I found that articulating exactly what was scaring me in the form of a script was actually quite difficult!
DiegoDiego
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Yeah I think imagining the situation gives me more anxiety than reading the script But I think if the script is not effective , as @Estrid said your brain probably got bored of it.
_esary__esary_
- Date posted
- 4y ago
If you aren’t feeling anxious in response to exposure script then either you have read it enough times that you are desensitized- this is good, it means it is working- or you have not included enough details for it to scare you. Remember to just write whatever makes you the most upset and triggers your thoughts. If you are desensitized to it but you still are bothered by the theme that it is about, you can make a new script to replace it that has different wording and different content in order to keep exposing yourself.
FatherIimaginedyoutallerFatherIimagi...
- Date posted
- 4y ago
No, it's ERP, of course you're getting anxious
DiegoDiego
- Date posted
- 4y ago
But I'm not getting anxious That's the thing,I don't know if I'm doing right
WeCanDoThisWeCanDoThis
- Date posted
- 4y ago
When you’re anxious about not being anxious by something that USED to make you anxious, it’s called the “backdoor spike.” It means you’re on your way to recovery. You may question what it means about you (what if I like the thoughts/script because I’m not getting anxious? etc.) but the goal isn’t to figure that out, it’s to accept and move on. Hope this helps. ❤️
DiegoDiego
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Oh Thank you so much❤ You motivated me rn
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Anonymous 567
- Date posted
- 25w ago
Can anyone relate?
Can anyone relate To being anxious to watch a movie or tv show out of fear of being triggered OR fear that your mind will latch onto to some weird idea you got from the movie and it will become a new obsession.. like for example… my hubby wanted to watch lord of the rings tonight. I’ve never seen it and for some reason I had the thought that I didn’t want to watch it bc what if it made me scared of creatures or some weird shit like that lol. Or like I’ll think about watching some Si fi show but then I have the thought “hmm better not in case it makes me believe in aliens or something”. I know how crazy this sounds but why do I think like this lol
sara_24
- Date posted
- 13w ago
Anxious about everything
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Mika05
- Date posted
- 8w ago
Worried about not being anxious?
These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
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