when i had nocd therapy through this app it was clear that like my time with the therapist meant that it had to focus on erps but we never could talk about personal stuff i mean we could but it was seen as an excuse for not doing the erps which usually they were i guess what im trying to say is does anyone go to a nocd therapist and are able to talk about whats troubling them emotionally in their personal life? my theme we focused on was pocd so i mean if anything in my life pertained to the theme and being triggered by it i went into that or i would talk about emotionally how my ocd was making me feel and how do i talk to my family about ocd but it was clear like no portion of it could be used as like talk therapy for lifes ups and downs and i get why but has anyone been able to find therapists who do both? because im living at home as a 29 year old with my family and theres a lot going on here emotionally and stress wise childhood trauma stuff and it is hard to like deal with ocd and family drama at the same time and itd be nice to be able to talk about both with my therapist instead of having to get two therapists one for ocd and one for like my life outside of ocd if that makes sense? anyway curious what other people have experienced

and is that through nocd or you found them outside the app?

@Anonymously Nocd!

@Justmesadly wow okay so its not normal to feel like youre not supposed to focus on the other stuff like even trauma? that therapist is dropping nocd anyway she just told me so maybe i will get placed with someone who is open to me talking about everything

@Anonymously Well the first therapist I spoke to was like this is for ocd we are talking about erp every time. But thankfully my therapist now recognizes that all of my Ocd is related to day to day stress so we talk about Mostly OCD but also anxiety techniques etc. I think they are really required and asked to stick with only erp though.

@Justmesadly oh okay i see yeah thats what was explained to me too so i was always like okay my family just had this huge yelling session last night and instead of talking about that with my therapist along with my ocd ill act like thats not bothering me and just dive into the nocd stuff even though itd be nice to talk about everything but yeah thanks for sharing

@Anonymously Yeah many people who use NOCD told me I need to get a separate therapist for that kind of stuff but I’m too scared and my NOCD therapist has been incredible

@Justmesadly thats awesome about loving your nocd therapist i liked mine too but shes leaving the app and i just was curious if other people experienced the same stuff because i think i need to address my emotional family and life stuff but was hoping my next nocd therapist could address all things because yeah im afraid of getting a talk therapist who knows nothing about ocd and so i have to keep my ocd stuff from them in fear of them making it worse ... so yeah i totally get where youre coming from congrats on things working out on here though 🙌😊 and thanks for your feedback

@Anonymously You got this! Ask your new therapist! Then if you have to get a talk one too ! Try to find hope

@Justmesadly 🙏💕🙌

@Anonymously My NOCD therapist only talks about ERP as well.....

@AlwaysAnxious I think they are required to!

@Justmesadly Good to know! Yeah she mentioned that I should also see a trauma therapist after our NOCD sessions end to talk about ptsd and other issues. (NOCD is my only therapist right now)

@AlwaysAnxious But yes I think if we want continual help and about anything it will have to be with another therapist. I just hate that it won’t be an ocd specialist so they could trigger things like my last therapist did! My therapist gave me erp that would be like something you would do for trauma therapy (I don’t have ptsd but I have real event ocd!

@Justmesadly That’s my fear as well! Thag I won’t be able to find a trauma therapist that also understands OCD. Especially harm OCD.

@AlwaysAnxious Maybe you can find another ocd therapist? I’m wondering if all Ocd therapist have this strict rule?

@Justmesadly That’s a great question! I wonder too. It may just be a NOCD thing, since this is a regimented program of only a certain weeks, with priority on ERP.