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How to face OCD treatment when you're terrified

My therapist says exposure therapy will help but the thought of deliberately triggering my OCD makes me want to throw up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The protective mechanisms of avoidance have become so strong they resist even the medicine of conscious confrontation.

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