ALL THERAPIST PLEASE HELP

Hello, so I’m in therapy for ROCD but my therapist says she doesn’t think/feels that I have ROCD. Her reasoning is because “compulsions don’t provide any sense of relief for someone with OCD, they are constant even after compulsions” but i’ve read online that they do provide relief until a new intrusive thought restarts the cycle. She also said I can’t have ROCD if I don’t show signs of regular OCD, because ROCD is only a subtype and I must have OCD to have ROCD. I’ve read otherwise online though so all therapist on here is she correct? (She also mention she only has 2 years experience and has a supervisor she reports to)

OCDFamily

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: Yesterday

I would get a second opinion. Your time is too valuable

marzipan

Date posted: Yesterday

I’m not a therapist so I’m sorry if my comment is wrong or useless, but anyone can experience symptoms of ocd or have flare ups of it. I have ROCD and do give in to my compulsions sometimes (which is BAD don’t do that lol) and after I do I do have temporary relief, but it’s veery temporary and my ocd just finds a new angle or new thought to latch on to. Is this an ocd specialist? Or regular therapist? It may be helpful to go to someone who is trained and specializes in dealing with ocd! I’m sure this therapist is nice but sometimes you need to switch out a therapist to one that helps and connects with you :) I wish you all the best with your ocd journey and recovery friend! God bless:)

Nica

Date posted: Yesterday

Get another opinion because she doesn’t know what’s she’s talking about.

OneDayAtATimee

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: Yesterday

Your therapist is inexperienced (only having 2 years) and she’s giving misinformation about OCD. She needs more training from her supervisor. Please fire her and switch therapists #1 Compulsions of course provide relief! If they didn’t, no one would care to do compulsions. The difference is that compulsions only provide TEMPORARY relief. It’s never long term and that’s why the compulsions are constant- to desperately get that hit of relief again. And sometimesss the relief doesn’t come at all if we didn’t get the reassurance we wanted. So I see where you therapist is coming from there but she was partially wrong about it #2 OCD is OCD. It applies to all the themes. ROCD is just a specific term for the types of thoughts you are dealing with, but it’s still OCD regardless. The individual subtypes really don’t matter 😄 The names for them were only created so it can make it easier for people to research and find others who share similar experiences- whether it’s Harm ocd, POCD, ROCD, sexuality OCD, etc. Content doesn’t matter. Your therapist is giving off vibes that you need to have the broad cleaning stereotype of OCD that you see on TV- in order to qualify at all for Ocd. So incorrect. I’m passionate about this topic because it’s so frustrating how mental health “professionals” claim to be able to treat OCD and yet so many of them know so little about it and give damaging advice :(

YouWillSurvive

Date posted: Yesterday

Compulsion WILL create relief...but only for a short time. So your therapist is partially right by saying compulsions continue after one compulsion, but she's wrong for saying they don't provide relief. Of course they do, that's why they are COMPULSIONS...we wouldn't do them if there was no benefit.

TexasOCD41

Date posted: Yesterday

Is she an OCD specalized therapist? As a 20 year vet of OCD, i can say from MY experience... my compulsions provided me SIGNIFICANT relief.. it was just extremely short lived. Also... ROCD IS OCD. the subtypes don't matter. its all basically the same thing. I think you might need to look into seeing someone else. I experienced something similar, i started with a very new therapist who was under supervision. She was alright... but the treatment was severely lacking. The next OCD therapist i saw was SOOOOOO much better and told me a LOT of things that the previous one never told me or told me were not true.

cows12465

Date posted: 22w ago

please help me

can someone with this theme help me i’m so scared and i can’t stop having panic attacks is this OCD??? So i always have struggled most with sucicidal ocd and harm ocd. i never really had any other themes. but recently ive struggled with SOOCD. My whole life i have never EVER been into girls ever and i could never even think of ever being with a girl in my entire life. i’m having extreme amounts of anxiety and i have compulsions to make sure i look at a girl and don’t feel anything towards them or anything. My mind is literally going “what if your just in denial” or “what if you’ve just been hiding it all these years” When i know i haven’t. i have all of the symptoms of SOOCD and i still know that im not gay,but these thoughts are extremely distressing and have been the worse to deal with. I’m constantly panicking and doing compulsions to get these thoughts to leave and they won’t. i’m scared and these thoughts are making my mind scared. What if i’m going against my morals and i’m lying to myself like and i just went through a tough breakup too so that is shooting these thoughts and anxiety. Please help omg!!!

lydiasue

Date posted: 21w ago

Food OCD

Hey guys! So I struggle with OCD, especially harm, relationship and moral stuff and I am somewhat recovered now. However, my current girlfriend has started showing signs of OCD but it’s abou5 something I don’t know much about so I wanted to see if anyone on here had thoughts about it. She is constantly thinking about food (when to eat it, what is healthy, what is too much, what is too little) and controls the thoughts by giving in and controlling her entire day around food. She don’t really know the feeling of being full. She never starved herself and always eats, but then she feels extremely guilty afterwards. Her thoughts do have to do a lot with her body image and not gaining weight but also not losing any either. Does this sound like ocd or an eating disorder?

Anon56

Date posted: 18w ago

I am confused now, please help

I went to a therapist, I told her about the doubts I was having related to my orientation and the continuous compulsion to check again and again and the thoughts. I told her about my resources -podcasts by Ali Greymond, Chrissie Hodges 's videos, and the books I read to overcome and control myself. She said a couple of things that confused me: 1> Her daughter once asked her "what if she liked girls?" As a mom my therapist said, "Start exploring", and the daughter said naahh. I wonder if the daughter had a thought or was it a chain of intrusive thoughts that plagued her day and night like in my case. 2> She said my sources are right, but I should forget that and not think that I have ocd. 3> She also said if there is any chance I am straight, I should walk on that path- because she has seen lesbians and gays have no feelings for the opposite sex. She said she could see that I was not gay or lesbian in any way. 4> She was interested in my education and masters degrees wasted a lot of time talking about that. 5> She said all these thoughts are causing me anxiety disorders (but I don't have ocd, doc?) 6> She pointed out that being happy and in the present removes these thoughts totally but I am causing myself unnecessary distress. I was doing well before this talk with the therapist now I am triggered a bit. Please share your thoughts.

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