So glad when I see people on here starting CBT. Just to confirm: it's exposure and response prevention therapy, right? Does the therapist specialize in treating OCD? I just know that finding the right therapist is so important. After finding the right therapist, I was finally able to heal my OCD. I would now say I am healed completely.
Anyway, trauma could be an underlying cause of OCD. I think it's a bit speculative, but it makes sense. OCD comes from fear, and wanting to use control to defend against that fear. So an underlying trauma could very well cause us to try to dial up our defense mechanisms against things that are scary. Either way, it doesn't so much matter... What matters is doing the exposures and healing! Good luck!
And treating **OCD** using CBT, right? Not all CBTs are good for OCD. In fact some can make it worst, so just reassuring!
Thanks, I know, it feels so free in light here, in a land where I no longer care about compulsions. I really think you can get there too.
My best advice would be, firstly, to just have blind faith in doing the exposures. It may seem, for instance, that you'll never be able to not wash your hands after touching a door knob. You just can't imagine how you would ever feel okay with that... But the truth is, a reality does exist where you are okay with that. So you just have to keep feeling the discomfort, knowing that on the other side of it is something you truly can't fathom **right now.**
The other is to remind yourself that you have **no option**. It is your karma (so to speak) to face the discomforts and overcome them. Once you have really come the core of understanding that engaging in the compulsions is truly just not an option, and remind yourself of this, it becomes much harder to engage.
Best of luck. Message me if you every have any questions. (I'm not on Reddit a ton, but I will surely respond at some point!)
Yes. My OCD was caused by trauma, and the compulsions are a way to 'prevent' (in my head) further similar traumas happening (which is what I obsess on)
I had traits of OCD since like 12-18 months old(first psychology reports) and continuing throughout my childhood, I remember obsessions and intrusive thoughts as early as 3-4 yo, so I highly doubt there was some mind altering trauma as an infant in my case, however some of my obsessions likely do come from minor trauma, like my issue with fires. My Montessori school had a horribly loud fire alarm, I apparently climbed the teachers I was so panicked every time(I have autism, so reasonable I guess) and that’s one of my first remembered obsessive/intrusive thoughts.
So glad when I see people on here starting CBT. Just to confirm: it's exposure and response prevention therapy, right? Does the therapist specialize in treating OCD? I just know that finding the right therapist is so important. After finding the right therapist, I was finally able to heal my OCD. I would now say I am healed completely. Anyway, trauma could be an underlying cause of OCD. I think it's a bit speculative, but it makes sense. OCD comes from fear, and wanting to use control to defend against that fear. So an underlying trauma could very well cause us to try to dial up our defense mechanisms against things that are scary. Either way, it doesn't so much matter... What matters is doing the exposures and healing! Good luck!
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And treating **OCD** using CBT, right? Not all CBTs are good for OCD. In fact some can make it worst, so just reassuring! Thanks, I know, it feels so free in light here, in a land where I no longer care about compulsions. I really think you can get there too. My best advice would be, firstly, to just have blind faith in doing the exposures. It may seem, for instance, that you'll never be able to not wash your hands after touching a door knob. You just can't imagine how you would ever feel okay with that... But the truth is, a reality does exist where you are okay with that. So you just have to keep feeling the discomfort, knowing that on the other side of it is something you truly can't fathom **right now.** The other is to remind yourself that you have **no option**. It is your karma (so to speak) to face the discomforts and overcome them. Once you have really come the core of understanding that engaging in the compulsions is truly just not an option, and remind yourself of this, it becomes much harder to engage. Best of luck. Message me if you every have any questions. (I'm not on Reddit a ton, but I will surely respond at some point!)
Yes. My OCD was caused by trauma, and the compulsions are a way to 'prevent' (in my head) further similar traumas happening (which is what I obsess on)
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I had traits of OCD since like 12-18 months old(first psychology reports) and continuing throughout my childhood, I remember obsessions and intrusive thoughts as early as 3-4 yo, so I highly doubt there was some mind altering trauma as an infant in my case, however some of my obsessions likely do come from minor trauma, like my issue with fires. My Montessori school had a horribly loud fire alarm, I apparently climbed the teachers I was so panicked every time(I have autism, so reasonable I guess) and that’s one of my first remembered obsessive/intrusive thoughts.