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Originally Posted by Berries
I'm still doing it! Lol
Well, actually, it's not funny at all. It drives me nuts! It's not that I am self-conscious about it or think it’s so weird, although I guess it is. It’s that it happens a lot and every time it happens, it's like I get stuck in a loop and I just can't stop the conversation. It goes on for hours. And even when it stops, it usually starts again a few hours later or the next day and then the next day and then the next....
One time I saw my T and said, Hi, I've already had 5 therapy sessions with you today! He gave me an odd look. It probably would have gotten odder if I'd gone on to tell him, ea session was about the same thing we talked about last time and I had same 5 sessions each day since last time I saw you! And I pretty much said the same thing that I did last time.
However, I have found one thing that helps, a little. As soon as the session ends, even before I leave the parking lot, I whip out my journal and write down what I said that I think I said that was misleading and write out a better way to say it ONE TIME and then promise myself to read that to him at the beginning of the next session. Sometimes that will stop it. the obsessing. But, I always have to read it to him or it won’t work the next time. Even if we don’t talk about it. I just have to read it, really quick, shut the book and then when can start the session talking about whatever else.
Oh well. At least when I am having conversations with my T in my head, I am not obsessing about germs or the other things I obsess about.
Oh the joys of OCD!
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Wow that must drive you NUTS!
Have you told your Therapist this happens?
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