Making therapy work

[drummingman]

If im lucky i will be starting therapy next week and i want to be able to be helped as much as possible. Does anyone have any advice for being able to do the things that are not sinful that the therapist tells me to do? Sometimes i find it very hard to do what people tell me to do to get better from my ocd because of how strong my ocd is. I want to be able to get better and i dont just want what the therapist says to not have an effect.

Please offer any thoughts that you have because this is very important to me. Thanks.

 

[keryakos]

First keep in mind that you are in control not the therapist
Secondly anything sinful i mean genuinely sinful dont do it for anyone and tell the therapist why ..

 

[drummingman]

Thanks keryakos.

If all goes well i will be seeing the new theripist on thursday at noon.

Does anyone else have any thoughts?

 

[gracealone]

Hi Drummingman,
Just be sure that you don't allow your fearful emotions to overule your logical mind. You'll know deep down and rationally whether something is sinful or not. Expect to feel extremely anxious when you are asked to ignore an obsession or to not engage in a compulsion. Try to remember that our anxious OCD feelings do not equal truth they only make us feel that something is terribly wrong when it's not. We have to allow or stay with our obsessions - we can't unthink them. But we do have a choice about whether or not we make them worse by performing the compulsions.
Praying for you!
Mitzi