Dani Gold

Yesterday was my first therapy session ever. I feel so optimistic about my future now that I am finally going to be held accountable for my healing journey. Looking forward to the next session already to learn more about my action plan.

NOCD is fine if you don’t feel like you need a specialist & your insurance is paying for it. I think NOCD is doing fantastic things and has fantastic intentions but for ROCD i found the ERP only approach to be really jarring and i felt like a cow in a cattle line to be milked every session. it felt deeply impersonal and even tho i liked my therapist as a person the therapy felt like a machine. Most importantly My therapist was GRAVELY under qualified to help with ROCD - i felt like after reading a few articles i understood it better than her. She’d often say really triggering things that were so ignorant and detrimental to my progress in recover (i.e. “sometimes relationships can just end just because you have the ick, you don’t need to have a reason”) - LIKE WHAT- ur literally my therapist confirming my worst fears and anxieties. Thank GOD i knew she was wrong and just really didn’t understand OCD so - AFTER I FOUND OUT MY INSURANCE WASNT COVERING ANY OF THIS - I left immediately and found and actual specialist that was worth paying out of pocket. I’m still paying off my bill at NOCD for care that was painful and not helpful. To her credit she did help me get over all my hygiene compulsions, but i was mainly seeing her for ROCD.

She gives me hope that I can get better.