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- 3y ago
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You need to go to a therapist who specializes in OCD and ERP therapy. Unfortunately generalized therapy is not tuned in enough to work for OCD. And with therapists who focus more on psychoanalytics and connecting every thought and dream to secret wants and desires , you can see why this would be a terrible fit. Sometimes you might get lucky and find a therapist that is well aware of ocd, but a lot of the time therapists that help with "anything and everything " will not have the knowledge you seek. Find help with ocd therapists specifically
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I went to a therapist who told me I didn’t have OCD when I suspected I did. I stopped doing therapy with her and started with NOCD the next week and was officially diagnosed that first session. I was in therapy for five years and never got better because my non-OCD therapists would just engage in rumination with me and reassure me. When I started coming to NOCD I actually started getting better. Like the comment above, I highly suggest going to a specialized therapist.
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- 3y ago
I recommend OCD specialists, they will 10000% understand NO MATTER the theme :)
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- 3y ago
You have to see a therapist who specializes in OCD.
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- 3y ago
But also an OCD therapist is likely going to tell try to get you to accept that you may or may not have OCD and your theme may or may not be true
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- 24w ago
I have a question My OCD has felt almost invisible the past few weeks and now that is starting to stress me out a lot. Right now I am at a point in my treatement where I was asked if I would like to take medication. I told my therapist this week that I would like to try the medication based on how miserable I feel in during OCD flare ups. But now my brain always tells me that I only go throught this treatement etc. to seek attention and that I am just dramatic and should be ashamed of myself for wanting to take this medication. So now I am doubting if I should take the medication or not. Any advice?
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- 21w ago
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
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- 16w ago
I've never been diagnosed with OCD, but have thought for a long time that I do have it. I've tried to bring it up in therapy but have been shot down as "OCD tendencies". Luckily I'm with a new therapist and am planning to bring it up again. Especially after reading a lot of your posts, I'm really resonating with them. Especially my anxieties and obsessions with my health. God forbid I feel any weird pain or ache, I instantly think I'm dying. Sometimes I get a weird pain in my head and think it's a stroke or aneurysm. Ill go as far as the perform the stroke FAST test. This happens multiple times a day. I also have HUGE anxieties about death and my mortality. If I think about it too much, I get this deep cold pit in my stomach and spiral. Even talking about it causes me sooo much distress. I'm just worried I'll be dismissed or told I'm just self diagnosing because I related to a post online. But if any of this sounds accurate, please let me know. I'd love to be reassured of my obsessions rather than just dismissed as being anxious.
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