Stress Center Peer Support

I wonder if the program can help me with my health/OCD? I have some general anxiety, but my main issue is worry about my health,contamination especially HIV exposure. I have had this problem to some extent since I was 7 years old. It was absent in me for a while after my daughter was born, but it seems to have come back w/ a vengence lately. I have Lyme disease and when I found out about that It seems that my OCD took over my thinking again and now I think I have everything. I have been agoraphobic at certain points in my life. I worry so much about being in public, I see so many "threats" to me out there. I invent scenerios in my mind where I may have been exposed to HIV etc. My recent post explained my fear about the dental appt. and exposure etc. I fear going places, always looking on the ground, aftraid to touch things, sometimes afraid to sit in a chair in public places....I am in therapy and on meds (Klonopin and Celexa) but I wonder if this program can help someone with my issues. Thank you all for the support so far, and the Birthday wishes were heartwarming. I want to be normal and stop being a burden to my family due to my constant neeed for reassurance that I'm "OK". I feel more ashamed of what I put them through then anything. I don't want to be this way, I would never choose it, but sometimes it's hard for loved ones to understand that it is not something you can just "turn off".

I believe that it can help you. I do not have the OCD like you, but I have read where people just like you have gotten better from this program. Hang in there. God Bless! Christi

Yes this program will help, be patient and persevere too. It really does take time, sometimes it feels like it takes too much time! God bless

Sara - You might not beable to turn it off right now but you can learn to dismiss ALL those things that scare you. It takes practice and, yes, this program can help you.

There is another book that really focuses on OCD and it is called Freedom from Fear by Dr. Howard Liebgold. I highly recommend it as well. You'll need exposure therapy and this book will guide you through it as well as a trained professional in exposure therapy to turn to for support while you are going through this. It is well worth it.

You CAN heal from this.