Hello everybody. Hope you are doing ok. I have a question. I'm so scared to share my obsessions with my therapist. Im afraid she make them worse. One time i had an obsession and i decided not to do the compulsion. I said it to my therapist and i was expecting she encourage me to not do the compulsion. But instead she said why don't you just ask? And she ruined all of my efforts. Recently i told her my obsession and she gave me reassurness that it won't happen. The same thing my previous therapist always did. So when i read about ocd in NOCD it said getting reassurness is not good. Do you think i should change my therapist? I'm so confused. My previous therapist who always gave me reassurance didn't help me at all. Before that i went to another therapist who claimed to be an ocd expert and promised me he will cure me in 10 sessions but he didn't help me at all and it was really expensive. I don't know what to do. I wish i lived in America so i could use NOCD therapist. I'm scared. I feel alone in the path of curimg my ocd. Do you think i can overcome it with self help books and medicine? Because i don't think my therapist can understand my situation in OCD.

I had a very bad session with a therapist today (NOT FROM NOCD). She basically told me I can’t be helped without medication, said I am too needy and if I keep being needy, people will continue to leave me, and my past trauma from relationships is my fault. I then had a second session with my old therapist who helped process and explain that OCD is lifelong and some people manage it but others have flare ups and I think I’m having a bad flare up (a month long basically) and that I may need medication which I’m terrified to go back on. Does it get better? Will I need meds? I’m scared. I don’t want to get worse and I don’t want these thoughts to scare me.

Is it normal to think your therapist does not know how to treat ocd? What is a good therapist in ocd?

Hi! I’m trying to say this story as short as possible. I started realizing I was having an ocd flare up a long time ago and I chose private psychotherapy because I thought it would be better. I had a bunch of other issues and I wanted one quick (I had tried 2 before) and when I met someone that I felt was kind of okay I trusted them with my ocd. The thing was that she was NOT specialized in ocd, in fact, looking back I realize that she barely knew how to handle it at all. I had a really good one when I was younger and I was not having symptoms when I quit years ago, so it surprised me a LOT that all I had learned got unlearned because I trusted a bad psychologist. I have currently Rocd and a bit of compulsive staring as well, plus tricomania. I really really want to warn you, DON’T LET A NON OCD SPECIALIST GIVE YOU ADVICE OR ERP!!!!! It has taken me a while to realize all the damage she did. But I was so desperate for a solution at the time that I ignored the signs. She had no idea what she was doing and she actually asked me what we should do! She also made my staring worse, because she told me to try to not look (which is actually wrong), she also asked me if I was really in love with my partner, EVEN THOUGH I HAD NO DOUBTS AT THE TIME!!! She thought that I actually wanted sex with someone else and was like yeah it’s normal some people do that, instead of understanding my feelings and that I actually didn’t want to, but it was an intrusive thought. (It was very different from the classic: you know what maybe maybe not erp thing) She misunderstood everything and I now have to rewire my brain.