Posted by Phidippus on November 1, 2009, at 22:32:58
In reply to Re: You tell me how to treat this. » Phidippus, posted by floatingbridge on November 1, 2009, at 19:05:07
> O.K. So you're in exposure therapy--may I ask for what issues?
I have participated in DBT therapy in the past, and have had plenty of CBT. Right now I concentrate on distress tolerance, mindfulness and exposures to help with the OCD symptoms.
>Does that work with inner thoughts as part of it? Like CBT?
Well, what I've done is structured it in my head that when I am speaking to myself in my head I imagine speaking to someone else. I think I was feeling very lonely just talking about the same thing over and over in my head to myself. I hate it though when I feel like I'm examining my inner voice, then it feels like not my own and that is very deporsonalizing.
> I have also borrowed from DBT--especially distress tolerance.
Its been a life saver for me.
>acceptance of thoughts, feelings and sensations).
This is where I get kind of washed out. Sometimes there's such a rumble all I can do is shut it out and just feel this blank, restless, depressed, dreadful feeling. Its like a peaceful terror, if that makes sense.
>D-amp makes them shush to a tolerable level as well.
Same here, but my Keppra hushes them even more and then I just have three voices, mine, which feels not my own at times, the depressed, I am nothing voice and the OCD voice which tells me I'm going crazy, going to kill myself, dying or about to kill.
> Sometimes the inner voice (what I'm calling it may not be what you are referring to) is quite loud and pins me to the mat and seems more than I can bear.
Oh, I get this terrible voice that beats my brain down until I can't think a single thing or panic.
> Good luck, really. Are you finding anything helpful in these board responses?
Yes, I am. Your's is a helpful response.
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