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Guest Despair

Hi everybody. I'm usually not one for posting on anything but I am in real trouble right now. I'll give a quick profile of myself.

I'm a 24 male recently qualified Personal Trainer but unemployed at the moment.

I've had my OCD for about 12-13 years but severely for roughly 7 years. I've had two courses of CBT in the past but they were both unsuccessful due to the fact i think, that I was not ready to lose my OCD. I was severely depressed at 18 and that is where my OCD capitalised and became unbearable. At that time I was in complete solitude with virtually no human contact at all. I live with my mum but she worked all the time and I would just stay in my room. I've recently had psychotherapy for 6 months that I finished and am now a year and a bit into more.

I have an appointment with a clinical psychologist for more possible CBT which I hope will be more successful due to my different attitude towards it.

I have found that I am falling drastically into depression again and am struggling to find a way out. Today became too much because a possible relationship with a woman I was really into fell apart completely.

I feel that much of the progress I have made with OCD has completely fallen apart.

I'm not sure why I am writing on here because I don't know what to expect but I just felt I needed to do something.

Thanks for reading.

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Despair, welcome to the forum. We are a group of sufferers and ex-sufferers. Know that you are not alone.

You've identified several negative things that are affecting you right now, being unemployed and a failed relationship. Stress makes OCD worse. We've all been through it, where everyday stressful events makes our OCD go out of control at times.

It's good that you are going to have CBT again. Try, try again. I don't know what your knowledge level is for OCD but it's very important to have a good working knowledge of the disorder - what obsessions and compulsions are, what your own obsessions and compulsions are. It helps when you're working toward getting better.

Have a look around the main forum to see what we talk about and do jump on in. We're here to help.

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