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- ronniesjourney
- Date posted
- 3y ago
You need an ocd specific therapist. Does NOCD take your insurance?
I don't have insurance at the moment, sadly. I used a sliding scale program with the therapist I have at the moment. I don't even know if what I'm dealing with is OCD, so I wouldn't want to "waste" time or money if it turns out that it's not what I think it is, yknow? That's where I feel torn.
@ronniesjourney Have you joined any of the community support groups? If not please do and ask questions because they are run by the NOCD therapists who are all well trained on erp. I’ve joined several over the last few days and they have been not only great support but a wealth of information as I am waiting to start my erp. They are free!
@BritD I'm planning on joining the one held every Saturday, I believe it focuses on learning more about and identifying OCD? But it sounded like it'd be helpful, and I've considered signing up for it. I'll have to follow through this once and see if it's helpful for me too. :) Sounds like a first good step!
@ronniesjourney I did that group on Saturday with Billie and it was great!
Before I was diagnosed with OCD, I had so many bad experiences with therapists. I had therapists who called me names, I had another who told me not to come back until I decided what I wanted to do as a career. I had another therapist who kept insisting I was depressed when I knew I wasn't. I frequently felt like I wasn't being taken seriously. I would open up, do assigned homework, but always felt like it was just making things worse. But once I started to suspect I had OCD. I started doing research. I found out that traditional talk therapy doesn't work for OCD. You need to find a therapist that understands OCD and specializes in ERP. When I started with NOCD and did my assessment, I was sure I would be told I didn't really have OCD. But I was told I do meet the criteria for OCD. Even if it turns out you don't have OCD. At least you will know. But doubting you really have OCD is a OCD thought.
Yeah, I'm trying to pay attention to my experiences more often today and be aware of what happens in my brain. At least most of it does seem like some form of an OCD experience. But I'll have to look into finding a therapist that at least truly understands OCD, so even if I don't feel ready or "legit" enough to do ERP, I'll be talking to someone who knows their stuff. I'm still trying to figure it out, but I'll definitely be looking into OCD-specialized therapists to see if it's even an option for me right now. Thank you for your indepth response!
@ronniesjourney My therapist through NOCD is wonderful and its covered under my insurance. www.treatmyocd.com
I think if you feel it's safe to, bring up how you feel dismissed and what exactly is making you feel that way. Tell your therapist how it's important to you. Also be sure to tell them your symptoms and how they effecs you and why it's so important, that way they will see it from your point of view. I think therapists tend to make you feel as though you're normal, which I understand can feel dismissive since I've had my problems dismissed in the past like that, so it triggers the same anger and sadness deep down. Definitely tell them how it makes you feel though. If they continue to dismiss you, then seek out a new therapist, and they should be open to your point of view.
Hi, this is my first time posting here, though I have been looking at the app for support for a while already. I have pretty bad social anxiety which unfortunately extends to even being in forums online as well, so I have been putting off sharing on here. I am in my early 40s and have struggled with OCD in various forms since I was a child. In my mid-teens it exploded into very tormenting Pure O. It is complicated by some comorbidity with other diagnoses — social and generalized anxiety, depression, and CPTSD. The sad thing is that I’ve actually experienced so much harm over the years at the hands of uneducated mental health professionals who didn’t have a clue about OCD or how to work with it, and i feel like I carry this extra burden of shame and trauma from those bad experiences on top of the grueling daily struggle I have with my mental health diagnoses. I am set up to have an initial consultation appointment soon with a therapist who is a psychologist in private practice. They seem kind and very knowledgeable, and so I am very hopeful that we will be a good fit for working together. But I am still haunted by those past bad experiences, and so the whole process of starting with someone new is nerve wracking. Has anyone else had bad experiences with therapists who didn’t understand OCD or who had only a superficial understanding of it? Thanks for reading!
When and how did you first discover you may have OCD? I'm beginning to think OCD is one of the most understudied, misunderstood mental health issues ever. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder about 6 years ago after I started suffering from panic attacks, but only just recently discovered my condition could be much more specific than that. I've been suffering from intrusive thoughts and complusions since I was a teenager with a variety of themes. And honestly this app and amazing community has opened my eyes to it. I'm curious if anyone else has had an experience like mine where they were just thrown into the general diagnosis category of just having anxiety and/or depression and is only just now coming to terms with having OCD? What has been your experience with the therapists on this app? I'm using another popular, pricey app for talk therapy at the moment, but so far 4 therapists have ghosted me on it so my confidence is feeling pretty shot. Has talk therapy and working with a therapist on here been successful for you?
I'm currently visiting my third therapist in the last three years and none of them have helped me so far. None of them have given me any type of diagnosis so I'm not even sure if I actually have OCD, and it's driving me mad. The last session I had, I even felt like it made things worse rather that it helped. I wanna feel that trust to my therapist that you should feel to be able to share your emotions but I don't. I feel like its not going anywhere, like it's useless. Lately I've been thinking about finding a therapist here at NOCD, I've even looked up some specific people and they all seem really nice and sweet.
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