Anonymous
- Date posted
- 4y
ButterflyStarButterflyStar
- Date posted
- 4y
Your brain learns to sooth yourself using something other than the OCD. Right now, we automatically jump to compulsions to try soothe the distressive thought/image/feeling. But by not feeding it with compulsions or 'OCD cookies' as I like to imagine it, we eventually starve out the distress and with time it will lower the overall anxiety caused by the thought image. Don't worry, this takes lots of practise and understanding. But you're already making steps 😊 Can I ask if you are getting help from a CBT therapist who uses ERP as an approach to your ocd? You're WORTH that help 😊❤️
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 4y
Unfortunately i’m still a minor and I live outside the US so i’m having to figure everything out on my own which I don’t know is helping because I keep confusing myself
ButterflyStarButterflyStar
- Date posted
- 4y
@fairydecoragirl Hey! Aw I'm so sorry it's been such a tough time for you. Do you by chance live in the UK? the NHS also offer great therapists that can help with OCD. What country do you live in and I can have a think what I could maybe help you with 😊
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 4y
@ButterflyStar Yes I live in England
ButterflyStarButterflyStar
- Date posted
- 4y
Okay awesome! Do you have a local GP? You could book an appointment with your GP, and express that your symptoms match what seems to be obsessive compulsive disorder. If it help, you could write down a few points of how you are feeling and prehaps anything from Google which is about OCD that you feel correlates to those feelings. They should agree that you can receive counselling. 😊👍 It may be a bit of a wait, as we know with the NHS, but hopefully that will be a good start.
cataguicatagui
- Date posted
- 4y
You teach your brain to not fear the thoughts, to not react in panic, so that in the future those thoughts can pass by, without you noticing or reacting to them at all.
ARTnotOCDARTnotOCD
- Date posted
- 4y
I can’t find the words to describe how or why, but in general it dissipates the anxiety and retrains your brain that not doing your compulsions didn’t mean the bad things happened. (Ugh, this description does not so the process justice.). Hopefully someone else can better answer.
EstridEstrid
- Date posted
- 4y
You learn your mind to not live in this reaction state all the time. Real threats are solveable, OCD is not.
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Anonymousssssss
- Date posted
- 21w
Do you have to do erp?
I’ve noticed that I’m somewhat happier also ignoring my thoughts than I am instead of doing compulsions (I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired atp) but I’ve heard you’re technically supposed to do erp rather than pushing under the rug. But idk if I have a thought I just refuse to think about it again and im fine even if I want to do compulsions
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- Date posted
- 15w
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Patrick McGrath
- User type
- Therapist
- Date posted
- 13w
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