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- 4y ago
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Hi!💗 me and my siblings have all suffered from this... but the others don't realize theirs is ocd as well. This is something we have all obsessed over our whole lives. Unfortunately reassurance has always been big for us. I think what helps is understanding you are safe in your environment and knowing that you're still there with him, even if he's not close to you. Reminding him you are there with him despite being a room away and protecting him.
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- 4y ago
Maybe gradual exposure! Rather than diving into scary images, try to find much smaller fears that he can encounter and face thus building his own confidence to face those ones and move forward!
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- 4y ago
I think definitely seeking guidance from a therapist to build it up! Sounds a bit like being thrown into ice water.. The build up is so so gradual of ERP. In the beginning it may seem that you aren't doing anything. But you are! It's training the brain to sit with little bits of discomfort or doing something a new way, which is uncomfortable in itself. Then building very very slowly. Are you in the US? If you are you can use this app for therapy! 😊
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- 4y ago
And probably asking if your child genuinely likes the therapist too.. I think that's important 😊. Children have a good innate sense of what fits for them and what doesn't, and when the right fit comes, you know when you know! 😊
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- 19w ago
Since I developed ocd as postpartum my ocd has mostly always targeted my kids. It started as harm and then switched to pocd. Both are equally very painful. For years I was mostly able to keep my ocd at bay but when it comes back it’s so bad. I have a son and a daughter and my ocd switches back and forth from kid to kid with horrible intrusive thoughts and now even intrusive ocd dreams. With each thought I get past and start to feel relief another one pops right up. The thoughts feel so real and true even though I know it’s just the ocd and not how I think or feel, the ocd always makes me doubt myself and question everything I think or do. I know other moms/dads go through this too. Please anyone who has or is going through this please tell me how you deal with this. 😪
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- 14w ago
**TW for POCD** I’ve spoken about this a few times before. That urge I had to type in “child porn” into google. I talked to my NOCD therapist today about it. She told me the ERP for it was to type it in. She even did it with me. Obviously nothing but news stories, crime statistics, and photos someone would use for a project showed up. I’ve been so petrified of typing that in there. She wants me to do it every two hours and listen to what OCD will say. I typed it in that way, I typed it out full, and I typed it out with an additional word. I clicked and browsed through all the google tabs. I’m okay, but I can’t stop crying. I’m scared to do it again. She said it’s not likely going to get flagged due to people looking that up for research projects and stuff. I’m just afraid repeatedly searching it up will cause some sort of alert. I feel so scared and full of nerves. I guess that’s what the ERP is supposed to do, but it was so scary. So scary :(
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- 14w ago
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with intrusive thoughts&images. At first i had intrusive thoughts around my partner, now it’s centred around me & I can’t be around window ledges or medication due to a story I read online(it’s too triggering for me) . Sometimes I feel like I can’t leave my bed due to the thoughts being so overwhelming I just break down and want to sleep. I aren’t taking any medication or therapy yet. I worry that if I don’t give my thoughts a reaction that my thoughts are true and not OCD. I’ve had these thoughts 24/7 for 2 months.
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