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Originally Posted by rainbow8
Thanks, Skies. Is there specific therapy for OCD? The pdoc I saw just wanted to give me lots of Zoloft. I didn't want that. I think DBT addressed it some. I contradict myself because both are true. FWIW, I'm not looking up T's bf anymore. I've been too busy and I realize it's not good for me. The pain is about T not telling me. She's not angry so I can see I don't have to punish myself. So, I think I broke the cycle. T thinks mindfulness will help me, and doing meditation 20 minutes every day. I'm trying.
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There's exposure therapy for OCD, but I'm not sure how it would work for these types of thoughts. One of my main OCD issues is fears of contamination, like germs, food being spoiled, etc. So my T was starting to work on exposure therapy with me, where the first part was writing a story about really gross food and germs, then reading it. I was supposed to record myself reading the story and then keep playing it back to myself, but something else major came up in my life, and we switched to focusing on that in therapy. There were then supposed to be other things that would expose me more, but we never got there. Might have to revisit it at some point.
Edited to add: OK, apparently it's officially called Exposure and Response Prevention therapy:
https://www.mentalhelp.net/blogs/erp...-disorder-ocd/