Real Event OCD

[susanjaneParticipant]

Does anyone else have serious Real Event OCD?  I am 66 years old and have had  OCD since I was 13.  It has taken various forms from praying and praying to prevent myself and my mum getting cancer, to the tremendous guilt inducing Real Event OCD I now have.  They are truly real events – I was a nurse and I made mistakes – but I then go over them wondering what I was thinking at the time and wondering if I deliberately did something.  It is getting worse and worse despite a lot of CBT and I even tried TMS.  I can’t take SSRI’s because of the cardio effects and I am getting desperate.  Does anyone have any amazing treatment ideas?

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