Questions about CBT therapy

[flowerforever7]

Hi,

Has anyone went to an intensive inpatient therapy program for OCD? If so, did it help or not? If it did, did it help a lot or a little?

Also, for those who work full time, have you been able to find any therapists that treat OCD who will accept patients on a Saturday? Or evening hours during the week?

Has anyone here who has scrupulosity been in a CBT therapy session(s) and been pushed by the therapist to do exposure exercises? If so what were they? Did anyone ask you to deliberately blaspheme the Holy Spirit or anything similar?

Thanks for your responses.

God bless.

 

[dabro]

I've never had ERP. But, my therapist comes to the house every week and we have talk therapy. She mainly tries to get me to go out on my own and not stay in all day. I was surprised at how well I was getting. Also CBT can help other's and other's it does not. But I would give it a try. Saturdays there usaully at home and not working. I would suggest you talk to your pdoc about maybe a Benzo when really needed and if your not taking med's maybe get on one to help you think staighter.

 

[gracealone]

Hi Flower,
My therapist actually had me trying to logically reassure myself through "talk therapy" and that really made me so much worse.
I don't think you need to purposely say a blasphemous phrase outloud in order to do exposure. You do have to accept it's presence in your head though and make space for it to be there without attending to it. The exposure that you could do would be to expose yourself to feared outcome that the OCD threatens you with because you have or had a blasphemous thought. This is really the root of it anyhow. The fear of eternal seperation from God. I did exposure to that fear... not fun, but it worked to stop me from trying to fight the fears. This would be no different than if you had a health obsession. The exposure exercise for that would be to try and imagine that you really did have that illness. You'd try to visualize what that would be like in as much detail as possible and then take it all the way to..."and then I die a horrible and excruciating death!" This can be done by writing out a story and then reading it back to yourself or tape recording it and listening to it. It would start out with...."because I have this blasphemous thought about God... I'll end up...." You'd have to take it from there. That's how I did my exposure to my religous OCD.
Praying for you.
Mitzi

Hi,

Has anyone went to an intensive inpatient therapy program for OCD? If so, did it help or not? If it did, did it help a lot or a little?

Also, for those who work full time, have you been able to find any therapists that treat OCD who will accept patients on a Saturday? Or evening hours during the week?

Has anyone here who has scrupulosity been in a CBT therapy session(s) and been pushed by the therapist to do exposure exercises? If so what were they? Did anyone ask you to deliberately blaspheme the Holy Spirit or anything similar?

Thanks for your responses.

God bless.

 

[kaykay9.0]

I did have a counselor who had evening hours. Not sure how common or uncommon that is.

 

[flowerforever7]

Thanks for your helpful replies. Is $200 a CBT session standard in terms of getting treatment, or do you think I can find CBT sessions that are less expensive?