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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-angry-therapist/202104/what-do-when-partners-dont-feel-it-anymore Here’s a good article as well!
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Thanks!!!!
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Watching break up movies, writing imaginary scripts, let me know and I’ll go deeper in depth!
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I will be so thankful if you share more erp practices!!!
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@xqrsljk 1. Movies (Some movies iv watched so far ) •We broke up (Hulu) • Someone Great (Netflix) •A marriage story (Netflix) • Closer (Hulu) •Resort to love (Netflix) • You (Netflix) *Basically any movie regarding a break up, finding someone better, or just RomComs * 2. YouTube /scenes • someone great-Jenny’s letter to Nate (YouTube) •Jerry Maguire: It’s not how I am built (breakup scene YouTube) *If you don’t have time to watch a full movie you can look up break up scenes on YouTube * 3. Break up letters/ break up poems 4. Rocd scripts Ex. Mayb I don’t love (insert name here ) and write it down as many times as you need to Ex. “I can never know if (name) is the right person for me. We have been together for ____ years and there still might be another person out there that is a better fit for me than (name). Even though I enjoy his sense of humor and find that our values and plans for the future match, I might be making a horrible mistake. I may never know if I am settling or making the right choice.” 5. Recordings •Record yourself saying a fear or intrusive thought Ex. I am not attracted to (name) And play it over and over again Ex. “OCD will ruin my relationship “ Hope this helps! Remember OCD is the disorder of doubt. Let OCD tell you whatever it wants, just don’t try to solve it. The thoughts are not the problem. Your choice to take them seriously is the problem. The thoughts are not you and the scenario they present is not real. Just know you’re not alone! 😊
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@LoverGirl Thank you very much😊
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@xqrsljk Of course! We must help each other out!
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Also people I follow on Instagram that have helped: @Withawakenintolove ( Podcast & Youtube) @youloveandyoulearn @forloveweheal
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I follow them too, thank you😅
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Hey there, I just wanna ask - has doing this actually helped?
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@iri Yes it has ! Thought I still have ocd I will be marrying my high school sweetheart in a couple of weeks. No longer letting ocd get in the way! And neither should you!!
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I have just done writing script for the first time and feel so silly writing down the exact things I am terrified of. I guess I am so afraid that these thoughts are really true but I can see how doing this can help. Also, I am so f-ing tired. I would run away just because I feel like I can't do this anymore. It's exhausting and feel like I am constantly hiding and am not really present cause this nagging feeling that something is off and thought that I must break up is so loud. And I wonder... Is it possible for rocd to really go away or one just learns how to live with it and if second is true then I am also bit disheartened:/ Gosh, I am so jealous of people that are free from this. Sorry for long comment and thank you for your response ❣️
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I am struggling to live life and do my ERPs. I am taking medication and doing ERP still along with therapy (had 10+ years of PTSD therapy). I don't have anything to look forward to. I've accomplished a lot in life but they don't matter to me anymore. There's little to no reward or there's stimuli of feeling or being treated badly even if I did good. Coping skills have become maladaptive. My values have changed and there is nothing I really want but my ex for the past years. ROCD is making my body react as if I am unable to be happy without my ex. He helped me through hard times and heal from trauma, but he was his own mess of trauma that I could not heal (he needs a real therapist and to go consistently). Yet when I was with him ROCD (didn't know about it at the time) kept telling me to leave from his unreasonable actions. Hard time sitting in limbo as I'm unable to decide and hard to keep doing nothing without something to look forward in life. I feel self abandonment whether I go back to him or stay away. I want to be able to live with myself even if I'll never end up with anyone. I hate not doing something of self care or feeling anything but apathy or worse every day despite doing things anyways. I worked hard to get safe only to have no joy in life anymore.
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I have, alongside my other OCD themes, an intense fear of insomnia. Although this has been improving somewhat — partly thanks to medication and The sleep school on YouTube — I still find myself ruminating about it throughout the day when I have something important the next day, I get stuck in the fear that everything will be ruined — for both myself and others — because my mind is so preoccupied with sleep. + a fear of depression coming back. It honestly feels like a form of sleep OCD. I'm not sure if that’s an official thing, but that’s how it feels to me. A form of erp is the idea of befriending wakefulness. That works great tbh. Things like sleep hygiene, meditation, etc. — tend to backfire because my OCD latches onto them and becomes too obsessive about “doing them right.” I’m genuinely wondering whether ERP — for example in the form of a worst-case-scenario audio loop (imaginal exposure) — could be helpful in this case. I’m hesitant to start unless I know it can actually help. Is there anyone who has experience with this or thoughts about it? I’m not looking for reassurance or tips to fall asleep — only for ideas on how ERP might be applied in this situation.
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Hi guys! I’ve been suffering with ROCD pretty severely recently. I can already feel ERP working and the thoughts making me far less anxious, but am experiencing a lot of anxiety about my OCD never going away, being sad forever and my OCD coming back. Does anyone have anything that helps them with this anxiety? I was prescribed Prozac but am so nervous about taking it.
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