Hi Mikey, ERP for OCD is a very specialized therapy. For example, a man can't drive because he keeps thinking he has hit someone so he turn around and around "checking" to be sure he didn't hit anyone. ERP would be to make him drive a bit further each time he had the thought that he had hit someone and work on the anxiety till it got down to a manageable level.
Therapists who do this often go out into the person's life for 1-2 instruction or the ERP. Sometimes you can make a plan and do homework and do the ERP yourself. Like, say everytime you saw anything that reminded you of sexuality you had to wash hands, bite lip, whatever. Then you might be watching R rated movies and looking at magazines like most that tell you how to improve you sex life etc. This would be the ERP, a self measure of getting your anxiety down. Self imposed Exposure. Hope this makes sense.
You wll start with an inventory probably and work from there. It helps most people with OCD and it, along with meds is the treatment of choice right now.
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