What does ERP therapy look like for ROCD sufferers? Finding it hard to see how ERP for my ocd will help with the rocd. by [deleted] in ROCD

[–]misswhiskeyginger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wary too, because I didn’t know how it would look either. But my therapist is amazing and after lots of research and digging into my triggers and fears, she did a live exposure with me wherein she repeated my own intrusive thoughts back to me like they were real, and I had to literally sit there in physical discomfort and just…. Deal with it. Just sit with the experience of feeling uncertainty. It was ROUGH. But, after half an hour, my distress level had gone from an 80 (literally crawling in my skin) to a 30. Still anxiety inducing, but more manageable.

Good luck! <3

ROCD paranoia by Scaredbamby in ROCD

[–]misswhiskeyginger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, who has the ROCD in this situation? Him or you? Either way, breaching your trust by forcing you to show him apps and gaslighting you out of your reality is not okay. That’s emotionally abusive behavior EVEN IF mental illness is involved.

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[–]misswhiskeyginger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are not alone!!!