Raise your hand if you have felt personally victimized in some way by a mental health or medical professional.⁠ ⁠ No offense taken. ⁠ ⁠ We get it.⁠ ⁠ We know what we're up against.⁠ ⁠ That's why we believe so strongly in spreading education, advocating, building trust in the community, and validating/supporting individuals with OCD - because we know the learned helplessness and hopelessness that can be involved in the process of getting help.⁠

I had been diagnosed with OCD for 15 years, but in 2013, my new therapist diagnosed my with another mental health issue, he clearly had no idea about OCD, he asked me who thought me my compulsions (like really). When I told him, that I check, but don't trust my senses, so I have to check repeatedly, he said I suffer from scizotypical disorder. When I insisted, that I suffer from OCD, he told me, he double checked with his son, who also is a psychiatrist, and that they agree on me suffering from scizotypical disorder, I started to get worse. For one week, I stayed in bed and took tavor for a week. Medical professionals who are uneducated, when it comes to OCD are actually dangerous for their patients...

Completely agree. I didn't get help for the longest time, because I thought therapists were just there to talk with you and help you analyze better. The thing is, I know I'm already pretty good at analyzing... and it doesn't work. ERP is great for OCD treatment, because you start giving into your fears and learn to deal with them, as opposed to futilely fighting them with compulsions.

by friends and family. they might be well-meaning but they've asked me if maybe the thoughts are what I'm really thinking. or minimized it. I've been afraid to open up about it for so long for fear my disorder will be mistaken for something genuinely harmful to others.

I totally agree with this. I was diagnosed with major depression, anxiety, and ADHD for almost 20 years until I found a Dr who advised me that most my problems seemed from OCD. Although I still had all the other mental illnesses ocd was at the root of it. I would have saved a lot of time and money if I'd know that!

Felt victimized by a priest for confessing my thoughts, he said I needed to repent.

Absolutely hate getting hugs or touched intentionally because people think they’re funny they need to grow up and realize they can’t force exposures.

Not by medical professionals but have had a few coworkers do things. One used to come by and put her hands in the running water while I was trying to wash my hands, and at an earlier job one girl poured some kind of oil all over my work station. She was suspended for a few days but I was also forced into treatment for me to keep my job because they thought it was disrupting my ability to work although mostly I just wiped down the area when I first got to the front desk and would even get there early to do this.

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A therapist recently told me he was scared of women who have a post partum mood diagnosis…because he’s seen that sh1+ never go away…and people have to have electric shock therapy, etc…like wtf dude??? I was telling him I had it in the past and it exacerbated my ocd…not sure how in the world he felt those comments would be helpful, and not make me feel defective, incurable or broken