How to overcome HOCD? Please advice.

Question

you need counceling, The most effective treatment for all forms of OCD is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) called ?Exposure with Response Prevention? (ERP). The most common impediment to ERP treatment for HOCD is the continued practice of compulsive behavior throughout the exposure itself. Usually this comes in the form of self-reassurance. For example, many HOCD sufferers may attempt to overcome their fears by exposing to gay pornography, gay neighborhoods, or other things that are likely to trigger their discomfort. Among the most common self-ERP attempts I hear involves reading online ?coming out? stories. All of these may be good ideas for ERP work, but they can easily backfire for the following reason: trying to prove you don?t like the porn, or that you don?t belong in the gay neighborhood, or that the person in the coming out story is nothing like you will never work.

S K Mittal · Accepted Answer

you need counceling, The most effective treatment for all forms of OCD is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) called ?Exposure with Response Prevention? (ERP). The most common impediment to ERP treatment for HOCD is the continued practice of compulsive behavior throughout the exposure itself. Usually this comes in the form of self-reassurance. For example, many HOCD sufferers may attempt to overcome their fears by exposing to gay pornography, gay neighborhoods, or other things that are likely to trigger their discomfort. Among the most common self-ERP attempts I hear involves reading online ?coming out? stories. All of these may be good ideas for ERP work, but they can easily backfire for the following reason: trying to prove you don?t like the porn, or that you don?t belong in the gay neighborhood, or that the person in the coming out story is nothing like you will never work.