Mmm! It's hard work and I find I need to do it most days but specialist CBT for OCD can be really empowering. After over 50 years of OCD I realise that pretty much all of my thinking processes have 'danger' notices fixed to them. After all those millions of reinforcements to my negative spirals...
I'm introducing myself as I've just signed up. I wondered for a bit about what to put as the title for this introductory thread and decided on the above because that is what brought me to this site.
I was having specialist CBT for chronic OCD (had from age 5, following ACEs). My therapist was...