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Bella

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  1. Thank you for your advice and sharing your experience makes me feel less alone with all of this. Can I ask what you feel the difference is between cbt and erp? As all therapists I've found don't do this form of therapy and only do cbt
  2. Thanks NotRock, I'm thinking this is the next step I can't wait any longer feeling like this, it's just so disappointing that metal health services are like this
  3. Hi all, I wrote on here April last year, very lost and coming to terms with what I believe is OCD. You all gave me great advice and after many years of trauma and pain through constant rumination I took your advice and I spoke to my GP to seek help in july 2021. My gp referred me to a psychologist and after a phone call from the mental health service in September I was placed on a waiting list, which I'm currently still on. They said I'm waiting so long because I said I would prefer face to face therapy rather than group therapy. I received a call from the psychologist today to set a date for therapy, what therapy they haven't told me either and because I can't do Mondays because of my job they've placed me back on the waiting list and It's a possibility i could be on it until next year 2023. My GP started me on sertraline July 2021 which I'm still on now at 150mg. It really was a brilliant at first but in the last 2 months I feel like it isn't working as well as before. Has anyone experienced this too? I was hoping I could start my therapy around the same time as starting the medication maybe this is why it isn't working as well now. Does anyone here have any advice for ways I can help myself or what you have done to help your symptoms if you've been in this same situation? I'm thinking to try to access private therapy but all within 10 mile radius to be and are accredited are not offering treatment specific to ocd
  4. Thank you both your advice and guidance has meant so much. I have thought about what everyone has said alot, the way I feel has been getting worse recently too. I think I will speak to my GP I just need to get the courage up. Thank you again
  5. Thank you I hope I will be in your position someday soon thank you for your advice
  6. Hi polar bear I'm not taking my frustrations out on this group I just described it how I saw it. I appreciate this is volunteer run but I was the one post that didn't get a reply and there was between before and after that did. I appreciate you aswell as others, have advised on this forum out of your own time and you aren't obliged to it was singularly aimed at anyone just what I seemed to me at the time. Thanks to you and snow bear for the advice on posting Hi Alice, It is new to me considering this as I thought I just had anxiety that was making me feel this way and think this way. I have no idea why or when I began having this memory and unsure if it is real or not which is really upsetting for me. I don't have thoughts of other things with others but I have an anxiety attacks where I feel like I have an intrusive thought coming now specific or in depth thoughts but it's difficult to explain just intrusive feelings that I relate to bad things that could happen, maybe thats a better way to explain it. I honestly don't know what I would say if someone explained they felt like this to me, other then try to reassure them I don't know Hi angst I feel that I'm embarrassed of judgement maybe if I told a therapist or a doctor. That they might think I can't do my job with intrusive thoughts or that it's real what I'm feeling its difficult to explain
  7. After working up the courage to try to get some help from this community for something I've been struggling with I write a message on here for some help and understanding and not a single person has replied. This forum appears to me to be a forum for particular regular people to communicate amongst one another and outsiders aren't included. There has been people before and after my post and every one has had a reply. This is not a welcoming community and I will think again before a wrote on a forum for help form strangers. Thanks for the further knock in confidence.
  8. Hi could I have some advice if possible for help with how I have been feeling for a long time. I haven't had a diagnosis of ocd I have researched my symptoms and read things on this forum and I have really intrusive thoughts that have haunted me for a long time. I have had terrible feelings that I may have harmed someone in my family close to me and the thoughts are of a sexual nature , I feel these thoughts about other people and family members now and It makes me feel I could be a peadophile. I have felt this for such a long time for about 22 years and I don't know If I have done a terrible thing to a family member I don't know if it was a dream it actually happened or if its a thought. I have had cbt in the past for anxiety but never brought this up I feel ashamed. I feel physical sensations with the thoughts which I've read some people experienced here also which reassured me but I don't know if my situation is different I don't know how to tell the difference between what's real and what happened or what could be anxiety or ocd. I feel like I can't tell my doctor or anyone else about this because I work in healthcare and I don't want it on record I also feel too ashamed to talk to anyone I know about this. Its happened for such a long time and I just need advice on how I can come to terms with what this is and if it is ocd how can help myself . Thanks for taking the time to read
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