Yea I have PTSD with a big capital T due to mis-treatment of ocd, specifically focusing on the obsessions. It just made my hole way deeper and the doubts so much stronger. I had to climb my way back out, it was not fun. Try explaining to a therapist that ur triggers for trauma responses are due to thoughts and doubt. If u thought explaining obsessions in pure o was hard, lol. It sucks. Thank goodness for chrissie Hodges. 10/10 would only recommend seeing an ocd specialist and getting ocd-researched backed treatment like ERP and then and only then going from there. It makes me so angry bc erp worked so well too. All that extra suffering for what? Not worth it! The obsessions suck but they’re not the point. U should do your best not to focus on them or take them too seriously bc it just makes ocd so much worse. And ptsd sucks, especially when it’s related to doubt about who u are as a person which is what ocd always targets. Or the memory of experiencing that. Not worth it!! OCD just doesn’t function in a way that talking about it helps. And the research backs that up. Logic can’t defeat it. You’re stuck in a cycle between doubts and making the doubt worse by responding to it as if it matters. The only way out is to break that cycle and let your brain heal. I really wish I had more insight into my disorder and advocated for myself better. I paid heavily for that. ERP gave me my life back and it made my obsessions meaningless.
Yea I have PTSD with a big capital T due to mis-treatment of ocd, specifically focusing on the obsessions. It just made my hole way deeper and the doubts so much stronger. I had to climb my way back out, it was not fun. Try explaining to a therapist that ur triggers for trauma responses are due to thoughts and doubt. If u thought explaining obsessions in pure o was hard, lol. It sucks. Thank goodness for chrissie Hodges. 10/10 would only recommend seeing an ocd specialist and getting ocd-researched backed treatment like ERP and then and only then going from there. It makes me so angry bc erp worked so well too. All that extra suffering for what? Not worth it! The obsessions suck but they’re not the point. U should do your best not to focus on them or take them too seriously bc it just makes ocd so much worse. And ptsd sucks, especially when it’s related to doubt about who u are as a person which is what ocd always targets. Or the memory of experiencing that. Not worth it!!
OCD just doesn’t function in a way that talking about it helps. And the research backs that up. Logic can’t defeat it. You’re stuck in a cycle between doubts and making the doubt worse by responding to it as if it matters. The only way out is to break that cycle and let your brain heal. I really wish I had more insight into my disorder and advocated for myself better. I paid heavily for that. ERP gave me my life back and it made my obsessions meaningless.
Continue to fight the good fight brother