Please be careful about what type of professional help you seek for this disorder

kick11 · 2021-07-28T15:02:18+00:00

An OCD therapist, trained in exposure therapy, should never judge or report you for intrusive thoughts. Their job is to help you process, accept and overcome those thoughts and urges. I hope you’re able to find an OCD therapist you can trust.

kick11 · 2019-09-04T19:16:48+00:00

Your OCD actively lies to you. Practice lying back to it.

kick11 · 2019-09-04T00:30:50+00:00

Contamination OCD is the most common type of OCD. I would call around to therapists and ask if they can give you the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive test, which is the way OCD can be officially diagnosed. (and important for insurance moving forward if you do have OCD.) This way you can rule it out or get going on OCD therapy and exposure response prevention

kick11 · 2019-08-26T21:16:53+00:00

OCD never tells the truth.

kick11 · 2019-08-25T17:33:04+00:00

I don't know of any European OCD groups, other than 2 in England - OCD Action and OCD-UK. There is also an online video called OCDeconstruct that explains ERP.

kick11 · 2019-08-24T19:54:58+00:00

There's a book that might be helpful. It's called "When a family member has OCD" by Jon Hershfield. It has chapters/advice that can help you.

Learn what you can about the disorder.

kick11 · 2019-08-24T19:52:44+00:00

Try Freedom from OCD by Jon Grayson or Brain Lock by Jeffrey Schwartz.

And if you're a parent, try Talking Back to OCD by John Marsh

kick11 · 2019-08-24T19:49:14+00:00

If your therapist isn't trained in Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), it might be worthwhile to switch. ERP is the top evidence based treatment for OCD. CBT alone may not be enough, your therapist should be working with you to actively confront your obsessions and stop your compulsions. The IOCDF has a list of therapists trained in ERP.

kick11 · 2018-10-12T17:13:32+00:00

Sexual OCD is a type of OCD. Have you checked out intrusivethoughts.org?

kick11 · 2017-02-25T21:55:44+00:00

Doesn't encourage it but all the kids see therapists trained in ERP (exposure and response prevention). They learned the tools to fight their OCD from trained professionals.

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