Guest guest Posted April 11, 2012 Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 Hello, My son's (he is now 18) OCD centered maninly on sexual obsessions - that is, any sexual trigger, both internal and external, would set off his obsessions. So, the tapes we put together addressed issues of sexuality that I thought would have the most impact. We ended up doing several tapes and started off with simple scenarios. We then worked up to more detailed and complicated ones - but with each one, my son recorded himself. When we first started with the tapes, my son would be very anxious even though we had done ERP many times before. Somehow this techique reached his OCD in ways that the other exposures had previously hadn't. But, even though he would start out very anxious and would need time to steady himself, we found that he quickly would get used to the tapes; that is, they worked and he was no longer anxious about doing them. As for his symptoms, the tapes seemed to lessen his general obsessions. It's hard for me to say just how well ths technique worked for my son's overall treatment because I didn't think about working with it until after we had done other types of expsoures and after he had already had a siginifcant improvement in his OCD. But, I think that it helped us some and reached his OCD in a more general way. Somehow, by having him isualize his worst OCD fears in a very personal way, it helped him deal with his obsessions. If this doesn't make sense to any one, just keep asking me and I will try to answer as best as I can. Best, Joni > > Could you explain more about the OCD symptoms that you worked on with the tapes and how often you used a tape and the degree of success it led to. Thanks! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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