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Taboo Tuesday- 1/17/23

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Its time for Taboo Tuesday! I am Krista Reed OCD specialist in Wichita, KS and IOCDF advocate here to give you taboo only topics!Let’s continue with this month’s theme: the fear of causing harm to others.Last week I discussed compulsions, - watch/read last weeks’ episode to learn more; today I will be sharing some in vivo (real life) exposures that individuals in treatment may practice doing. These are exposures that are tangible and/or can be done behaviorally.Exposures are typically best when they are valued based; exposures are not here to shock our clients just for shock value, they really are to allow the person to get their live their life!Fear of stabbing someone, maybe a family member?- plan an evening to cook with a family member and chop vegetables near them.  Afraid that you might accidently hit someone with your car? Drive in an area with a lot of pedestrians; perhaps that area is area your kids’ school. Fearful of strangling someone? Hug a loved one. The list is endlessThis kind of therapy is NOT called Exposure therapy it is called “Exposure AND Response Prevention therapy. Response prevention means to prevent the response, prevent the compulsion so while performing these exposures, one can use non engagement responses like “maybe”, we’ll see”, “cool story bro” when the OCD comes back saying that something bad might occur.  The more you resist this work, this more OCD will persist.  So do the exposure, don’t do the compulsion, and lets see what happens!ERP is best when it is under the supervision of an OCD specialist. Check out next week’s Taboo Tuesday and learn about imaginal exposures! Have a gorgeous Tuesday and remember- stigma and shame die where communication and validatation live.

Krista Reed, LSCSW ❤️

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Hello there!

This is a great idea what you are doing here. Thank you! I have self harm ocd. Do you think you can help arrange exposures on that? I like the idea of doing exposures (ERP) and talk about them here with you.

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thank you! I will be covering that in Feb ❤️

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Awesome. I look forward to seeing your post.

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Mxtmxxn

Thank you for your post. This is what I suffer from and just had a relapse of it after years. Thank you for the tips and advice.

So is using those non-engagement words okay? I typically just stay quiet and let it happen because I fear talking back to it is a form of compulsion, but I've never done ERP so I'm not aware/sure.

check out this article- it does a fantastic job of explaining more!

iocdf.org/expert-opinions/h...

I have sexual intrusive thoughts about my older sister I’m male 32

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OCD sucks. I am sorry that you are dealing with that obsession right now 😢

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yeah it’s a hard disorder to understand I’m at the start of my journey understanding it . Have you heard of these types of ocd with intrusive thoughts ?

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yep and I am covering sexual themes in April/May/June!

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would love to talk too someone about this if you know anyone or could chat about it

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