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- mummers
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- 5y ago
You should have a good feeling about your therapist. I would recommend trying a different one if you’re not having a good experience with this one. However, keep in mind, ocd therapists are often quite matter of fact in my experience. They usually don’t go into many personal details and try and keep idle chatting at a minimum. They are trying to avoid reassurance and focus solely on the ERP therapy. This may seem cold, but for many people, it may be what they need the most. Just a straight time slot of focused, uninterrupted ERP with a professional
You could try voicing your concerns with this therapist, maybe asking if you could ease into the ERP each session with some chit chat or general well being questions.
I know what you mean! Ive been to an OCD specialist too. I told her I wanted to talk about my past and she said its a good idea sometimes to start going to a general therapist at the same time if theres trauma from the past. OCD specialists get straight to the point to try to help you in your current situation. I had same concerns as you when I started, I did some research and asked others and realized she was doing what she was supposed to do.
Muni, if you look on OCD actions website. They have the ‘Signs of a good therapist for OCD’ and have a checklist of Do’s and donts. My last therapist doesn’t know much about OCD but claimed to...spent nearly an hour talking about my relationship when that’s not even the issue ?
What has he done that makes you think that?
Most specialists do that. Thats a common thing, and actually a sign of a good OCD specialist!
I had no clue! I just thought she was being rude and too straight to the point! Its a very different experience from all the other therapists that I’ve had: to me, this one feels like an exercise, more than anything else. Does that make sense? She’s more of a teacher, and she’s teaching me ERP, and that’s it.
1 hour. She was expensive too but I had insurance at the time that covered it.
I went once a week for 1 hour. It does cost a fortune ?. I wish it didnt. OCD is a severe mental illness, help should be more accessible. It impacts your daily life so much its so sad to see so many people not be able to afford the help they need.
@Aela, I so agree with you! It saddens me :( and I also think of all the money I’ve spent on useless therapies and it makes me so angry and sad. @Lewis, thank you so much! You’ve been of great help ?
Thank you so much, @aela. This comforts me! How long did/ do the sessions w/ your therapist last?
I mean, minutes ?
How long is yours?
This is the part that bothers me. It’s 45 minutes, which I find is not enough for ERP. I see her twice a week and I’m spending a fortune on therapy ?
Does your therapist specialize in Exposure Response Prevention for OCD? If yes, than he/she is legit. If no, you need to find a new therapist
Yes, she’s specialized in ocd and exposure and response prevention @stephen2 :)
Does anyone here have experience with Ali greymond's recovery program for OCD? I'm desperate for a therapist/someone to guide me onto recovery but it's gonna take months before I can get help irl. I'd try this out as her videos are very informative/she seems to know a lot about OCD but it's expensive and my parents are afraid it's a scam. If bad experiences please let me know too.
can therapists lie if the truth would be unbearable to their client? on the very first session, my therapist asked me how i'd feel if it turned out that i only have traits of a disorder but not an actual mental disorder. i replied i wouldn't believe her. that was three years ago, but validity of my OCD and struggles in general is a huge theme for me and when she first diagnosed me with GAD and SAD after a few months, i had a major, three days long episode where i genuinely felt like i was forcefully locked inside my brain and forced to run in loops, because i had gone to her specifically because i knew i had something more than just anxiety. i kept searching and checking to prove that it couldn't be just that. it was an incredibly painful loop. now im paranoid that she has only diagnosed me with OCD because of this. im worried that she might be saying it only to make me happy, because if she said otherwise i would stop collaborating and simply quit therapy. what if she's only playing along so i won't be upset? it seems very realistic because she's always vague and rarely uses clinical terms, even if she knows that i know enough about psychology to understand her if she did use them.
So I had a therapist who I would tell about my intrusive thoughts, and they’re about children and especially my little brother. So I decided to leave her because she wasn’t helping me and yesterday she threatened to call a mobile crisis on me because I didn’t want to speak to her. So they appeared today, and I gave my big brother her phone number because she was pissing me off, and she told my brother that she was concerned about me and that she was concerned that I might hurt my little brother or myself. And kept telling him that he didn't know me like that or my thoughts. I don't understand what type of therapist would say that.
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