Dear Midnight:

Getting the “silent treatment” from a therapist is not therapeutic to me- of course you want a person/ therapist to not interrupt you before you finish your point, but … not the silent treatment, for crying out loud!

About the origin of your anxiety, relationship/s with parents- if you’d like, post about it anytime.

Regarding the ROCD thoughts that torment you at times so much: if you did not get so alarmed by having those thoughts, if you took their power away, that could help very much. When you have those doubts, does it make you think you have to do something as a result of the thoughts? And the doing something scares you?

If you peeled off from the ROCD thoughts the idea that these thoughts require action; if you perceived those thoughts as strictly mental events (which they are, in reality) with no required practical consequence, then those thoughts will not be distressing, or that distressing.

anita