In your experience, how far into therapy or starting ERP until it “finally clicked” for you? When it comes to relief. I’ve been in a total of 5 sessions and it has helped relief some of my anxiety, however I still feel anxious and extremely unhappy that some of these thoughts are still part of me.

That is something to celebrate about! I’m so glad to hear about your progress. Definitely the mental complusions are the most difficult to figure out & control but doable!

Thank you for your answer. Working on them still and have high hopes. My goal is not to completely remove these thoughts (as they’re “normal”). I just hope to remove these feelings that are associated with them.

Hoping it’s going well for you Jeffrey!

@Anonymous It has gone well. I know it is hard work but if you stick with it you will retrain your brain. I have been dealing with ocd for 40 years and this is the best I have felt. You’ve got this

I’m so glad to hear that you’re working on it! Yes, we all can beat this & gain control again. Hardest thing for me is that I have mental compulsions & apperantly I have an obsessions with rumination.

It’s going to be a month for me :(

@Anonymous That’s normal.

@Nica Hope it’s going well for you Nica!

@Anonymous I’ve been healed for a few years now, so yes 😉

@Nica Can’t wait to get where you’re at now! Hoping for the best 🤞🏻🥳

I’m sorry to hear about that. It must’ve been hard, especially being pregnant and losing your job.. so sorry 😔 I do not wish to depend on medications and just want to stick to “natural healing”. I’ve been experiencing this episode for 2 months now and will be in therapy for a month this week (but will only start on my 6th session) this week. I’m dealing with two subtypes - jumping between one another. Just when I thought I was getting better, bam the other subtype kicks in. I recently got engaged and really couldn’t feel all that happy because I have ROCD too. Praying for the best soon 🥺❤️‍🩹

@Anonymous It will get better. Just do everything your therapist tells you no matter how hard it is. I wouldn’t close your mind of to meds- I personally wasn’t able to do it without meds. Sometimes we need that extra help. Not saying you can’t do it without them but sometimes some people do better on them. Things will get better, the treatment is scary but effective

@Maybe,MaybeNot I’m afraid of depending on meds and what if I get off it? I really feel ok doing without meds. I guess I just want this process to end ASAP.. maybe it’s another obsession 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m doing my absolute best. Thanks for the encouragement! I hope the best for you also!

@Anonymous Not sure if I fully understand your question- but what I did was I tried it without meds for awhile. My OCD was like extremely severe and debilitating and I couldn’t take it anymore and I was like uh I need meds and my whole family was like yea you need to be medicated because I was calling for reassurance all day long and crying all day. I’m just saying that if it’s really severe and you feel like you need them, allow yourself the opportunity to try them. They have helped me so much and I have had absolutely no side effects. Me personally I am willling to do anything to make my OCD improve lol

@Maybe,MaybeNot I’m glad to hear that it worked out for you! Everyone is different and respond differently to each treatment. Really hope this is the only time I’m feeling this way. We’ll be ready to tackle it the next time it comes around.

@Anonymous We got this 💪🏻

@Maybe,MaybeNot Yessss girl 💪🏻