Doing ERP with a psychologist for a few months made my contamination and harm OCD go from severe and disabling to manageable 😊 It was hard to get the correct diagnosis though. When I told my GP about my harm ocd thoughts (before I knew that’s what it was) he prescribed me antipsychotics and accidentally reinforced what my ocd was telling me 😣 Thankfully I saw a psychiatrist at hospital who diagnosed it correctly and took me off the medication and started me on ERP. I’m not surprised by my doctor though - OCD is not well understood. Plus he also told me that I’m not autistic because my diagnosis is Asperger’s syndrome which he said was different 😬. …I changed doctors after th
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Doctor Elliott
Which therapy approach became widely accepted in the 1960s–70s as an effective psychological treatment for OCD?
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