New here. My psychiatrist recommended me. Realizing I have a lot of symptoms of someone who has ocd and trauma. Learning about rumination has me feeling so seen. The breakup happened almost a decade ago and I’ve been going over and over and over about all of it. Anyone else?
YES! Story of my life (which happens to be on a constant loop 🤣). It’s so powerful acknowledging that though! Half the battle is acknowledging that it’s thought rumination and not anything you need to do or act on.
@OCDNOT4ME You are so right!!!! I honestly feel so validated and seen for the first time!!!! Like there’s hope
@krystaldawn Girl you and me BOTH! I actually got the conqueror badge this past week and finished my last (hopefully) OCD therapy session today 🙌🏻 you can message me anytime!
@OCDNOT4ME Omg yes!!!! What a huge accomplishment!!!! So proud of you!!my 4th session is on Tuesday still finishing with diagnoses.
@krystaldawn Awww thank you!! I’m proud of you for choosing to show up to therapy too!! It takes a lot of courage to open up about the thoughts, patterns, etc. Keep this visual in mind when you move forward (it has really helped me!): When I hear or see my intrusive thoughts coming through, I try to picture my OCD as some type of crazy taxi driver that is trying to climb from the back seat into my lap to grab the wheel of the car. I tell it to chillllll and get tf back in its seat 🤣 and I find that it helps kinda bring me back to the present. I hope that visualization helps you too!!
@OCDNOT4ME Oh this is great!!!! Thank you so much!!!
@OCDNOT4ME If you don’t mind me asking how long have you been in this therapy? I have alot booked out
@krystaldawn Honestly, not long. I did it 2x a week for a little over a month, but I do think that answer is unique to each person. I am not a stranger to therapy and have learned a lot about OCD the past year prior to getting actual therapy for it. However, I also did tell my therapist when I wanted to stop, and we cancelled some appts we had already scheduled. I think it is completely up to you what you think is best 🙂
For most of my mental health journey, ruminations were the core issue. I plead with a lot of doctors that if they could help with the ruminations it would help with the depression and anxiety, but they felt it was more pressing to treat depression and anxiety instead of the root cause. After finally getting diagnosed with OCD it's been incredibly helpful not just for my anxiety and depression, but also for my trauma. It can be really validating when professionals finally admit that thinking about the same things over and over again for weeks, months, and even years is a sign of trauma, and there is a point where it crosses into Obsessive Compulsive territory. ERP and NOCD has been so eye opening, and really helped me understand myself a lot and improve.
@Anonymous Thank you so much for your vulnerability 🫶
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