Just got my OCD diagnosis last week. In trying to tell my brother, he shrugs it off as "everyone has OCD" to a certain extent. Seriously can't talk to someone who won't even try to understand.
My mom says this exact same thing. The thing some don’t understand is that for us ocd is real & quite debilitating.
Honestly, I had very little understanding of ocd until I looked into it for myself. I just believed the media and the odd way its worked its way into daily conversation for some people. "I like to organize my books im so OCD". It sucks to see the popularized perception of OCD is so incredibly wrong. Honestly it took 2 years of talk therapy for me to just find a tiktok that mentioned ROCD and sent me down a spiral of research because I'd never related to anything more in my life. But when I saw ROCD was labeled under OCD I was just "nah I don't care about cleanliness so this isn't me". I've since learned, if someone hasn't experienced OCD or doesn't know somebody who has, its not likely they'll understand at all. Even worse when they don't make an effort. I'm sorry you have to deal with that in your home Its rly a shame
Yes same, I couldn’t relate to it either because I wasn’t washing my hand all the time etc. But when I found out about rocd my hole perspective changed, now I understand that it comes in many themes and it can be different for everyone. The only thing that is the same for everyone with ocd is the horrible feeling and doubts that you have all the time that haunts you
I’m still not diagnosed but I hope I will because I relate sooo much to it, like when I first read about rocd (which I was struggling with) I felt soo relieved and understanding
@San2 SAME. It brought me the greatest relief. I finally had answers to what I thought were issues that no one else dealt with, and I didn't feel alone anymore. It made so much sense
@CrimsonCaprisun Yes same it makes you feel like your not alone in it. I hope I will get better now
May I ask how long it took to get diagnosed? 😊 I’m also talking to a therapist now for 3/4 months and I’m not diagnosed yet but I hope I will soon
I have been in talk therapy for 11 years & only earlier this year did my psychiatrist office suggest checking about ocd with me. But I have had it since childhood when I look back. The first few sessions i had an official diagnosis.
That’s sooo long 🙁
I had childhood m trauma too work on at first & that was what they all treated during that time. It has only been in the last few years that even though I may do a little better with the talk therapy I don’t Maintain it long term & that is when someone finally saw the ocd I have in addition to that. So even though it has been a long while I have been in therapy I only started tbe ocd therapy about 4 months ago.
We’re treating also something else first in my case too. Fear of rejection. But they mentioned ocd before
if so, at what point? and how much do you explain? are there sources you like to use that might explain to them what it actually is?
So I've had OCD since I was a child. Like really young. The first intrusive thought I can remember was when I was 5. It just keeps getting worse and lately they've been making me physically ill or throwing me into extreme panic attacks again ( ones where I can't move my body ) the other night I thought God was trying to kill me because I was thinking about ending myself from OCD+ life issues but in reality I was just having a panic attack😭😭it affects me daily. It gets a little better with therapy but I don't see therapy coming into my life any time soon and I'm not even sure if I would want to go (for multiple reasons). To wrap this up if you have severe ocd can you tell me what it's like?? I don't want to label anything without proper research and hearing others perspectives. Thank you!! <3 (My profile says all of my subtypes if that helps any)
I feel like in some ways receiving a diagnosis for OCD has in some ways made things worse. I’ve always had what I called “phases” throughout life, which I now know were ocd episodes, but I didn’t really make too much of them and even if it was over several long difficult months, they’d always seem to kind of just pass. Recently I’ve begun my worse flare up in the last few years and now that I’m older I seemed professional help which led to my diagnosis. This all sounds great of course but I can’t actually afford therapy right now so I kinda just have the diagnosis but not the support so now that I realize these phases are actually this incurable mental illness I just feel like I’ve lost all hope that I’ll ever be happy and I feel like I basically obsess about obsessing at this point and it just sucks. Has anyone else had this or a similar experience?
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