ananke, self help group for ocd`rs
Question:
I think ananke is taken from the old name for ocd: "anakastic neurosis". Ananke is a self help group for non proffesionals, there are no pdocs, psycologists therapists precent at all, eccept maybe sometimes. Basically just lay-people with ocd or relatives of people with ocd. I live in Norway, but I know ananke is active in several european contries. Atleast in Sweden. I think its active in other contries as well.
Response:
"anankastic neurosis" was the proper way of typing it.
Response:
yuckfou wrote:
> I think ananke is taken from the old name for ocd: "anakastic > neurosis". Ananke is a self help group for non proffesionals, > there are no pdocs, psycologists therapists precent at all, eccept > maybe sometimes. Basically just lay-people with ocd or relatives > of people with ocd. I live in Norway, but I know ananke is > active in several european contries. Atleast in Sweden. I think > its active in other contries as well. Thanks for that yuckfou.
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yuckfou wrote:
> Anyone else got any experience with ananke or similar organisations? I’ve been to a ‘real life’ support group which was facilitated by a psychiatrist. It was *very* good to meet others with OCD and talk but I did not get on well with the shrink. She was not into the cognitive aspects of OCD treatment that I think are essential for real progress. She was very much just ‘exposure and response prevention’, which is very important in the treatment of OCD but it doesn’t help people challenge the WAY they think about fears in the first place. So after a few ‘discussions’ with her I left the group and found a therapist who was much more into cognition and better suited from me. I still kept in contact with a few people that I met from that group every once in a while. I have never heard of ‘ananke’. It doesn’t look English to me, what language is it and what does it mean?
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I was on an ananke meeting today. Its an organisation for those with ocd. Its like a self help group. It was weird for the first time to meet others with the same illness. Its rare to bee in a room with 12 people who have the same issues. Kind of funny lots of humor and quite a relief to talk out in the open with non proffecionals. Only backdraw was that most were washers, and Im not one other guy had harm ocd though. I recognised so much from way back when I myself were a washer. Anyone else got any experience with ananke or similar organisations?
