Has anyone here experienced emotional burnout but still become upset and cry about the burnout whilst experiencing false feeling and thoughts. Does medication help with this? I can’t do erp until this is addressed as it brings on more false feelings 😢

The only issue is I don’t know what my compulsions are. I understand what your saying though. For my I don’t have the energy for erp as I’m extremely drained

@sagittarius93 We have to do ERP, and not wait for when we feel better to do so. That’s like saying I’m not going to the gym until I’m already in shape. How does one get healthy without exercise. How does one recover without practicing ERP.

@NOCD Advocate - Carl Cornett Carl can you recommend any good videos on false attraction to help me understand it better?

@sagittarius93 What do you hope to understand?

@NOCD Advocate - Carl Cornett More about this symptom of ocd and how it manifests

@NOCD Advocate - Carl Cornett Also I’ve been advised off my therapist that I address the burnout out first because of my Heath I’ve found out I’ve got too high amount of red blood cells and this is getting reviews in 3 weeks time so rule out any other health problems

@sagittarius93 It’s likely your burnout is mostly due to suffering from untreated ocd. While you may not feel ready for it, most people who start erp never are. They do it because it’s the only option. If there was an easier treatment, we’d do it. But there isn’t. Here’s some info on erp: https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/expert-opinion-self-directed-erp/ And some info about motivation to do it: https://battlingtheocddemon.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/erp-works-so-why-wont-you-do-it/ In regard to how false feelings work: the compulsive researching, analyzing, and need to explain this phenomenon is your compulsion. Your challenge will be to have these false feelings and then say “you know what, I don’t need to understand exactly why this is happening or how with any more certainty than I have already.” And to let that be your answer each and every time your brain tells you to go searching for an answer.