Did anyone have success doing erp on their own? If so what are your tips? I have tried to seek out therapy but it didn't work out in my favor. (I ll spare you the stories) I have been doing erp on my own for 3 weeks and made some progress. I have done fewer compulsions in general and I start seeing how absurd some of my obsessive my thoughts are. What is the danger in doing erp on my own?

I have done a lot of ERP myself it has worked quite well for me. I found many online good resources. One of the best ones to follow is- https://www.youtube.com/c/YOUHAVEOCD Everything in her videos if you follow sincerely will get you so much better. After watching her videos I have build some general rules to follow when intrusive thoughts hit and then they go away eventually. I would say the danger would be if you find a wrong way to do things which can make it worse. You have to try things and you will see if it works for you

So sorry for your bad experiences. I do ERP on my own all the time. I’m doing different therapy right now for depression. One drawback to ERP on my own that my therapist pointed out: I dealt with one obsession for years even though I didnt avoid the triggers and didn’t do compulsions (as far as I could tell), and yet it stuck around for years, anyway. My therapist and other sources helped me see maybe what I ended up doing were the...not sure the word for it...beat-yourself-up compulsions? OCD: “If you don’t avoid X, you’re a bad Christian.” Well, I didn’t avoid X, but I also told myself this made me a bad Christian, came to believe that, it had a huge impact on my faith and then had my hardcore swing back into scrupulosity... I think that’s the danger: you can end up missing what’s compulsive, maladaptive behavior and get depressed. Or—another thing—you can so normalize a ritual (like ruminating, overanalyzing, etc.) that it kind of becomes part of your personality. Or (another thing I did...), you cut down significantly on a compulsion but never really cut it out (“I’ll just check it a few times.” “I’ll just tap it four times.”), and so the obsession sticks around. That said—if you need to take some time to heal and reconsider after being hurt, that’s totally understandable.