Noca wrote:
Jamesy wrote:
I am very worried because tommorow I might do an ocd ritual to relieve my anxiety.
The problem is if I don't do the ritual then I might not be able to sleep for Saturday (I might go out to my local bar on saturday night and I don't want to be tired for it).
How can I stop myself from doing the ritual tomorrow if I am really anxious?
Ritual based OCD responds pretty well to Exposure Response Prevention Therapy (ERP). Read up on that, I found that the most helpful for that aspect of my OCD, and broke most of the rituals I used to suffer from.
Just curious, but how would you explain your OCD rituals as being different from the habituality of AS?
Someone told me the rigidness and rituals thing sounded like OCD- don't really know where the distinction lies though.