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- 6y
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- 6y
Questioning whether its ocd or not is a downward spiral. You cant be sure when your ocd about ocd. Its an insidious problem. But eventually you have to accept it might or might not be ocd. Eventually you can learn when its most likely ocd and you have to do exposures and treatment for it. But when your deep in it you have to take risk it migjt or might be. Otherwisd itll just drive you nuts forever. Youll be googling symptoms questioning everything. Its a rabbit hole.
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- 6y
Trying to figure out if its ocd or not is a compulsion that makes ocd stronger. I was diagnosed for the second time and I still questioned it for months and months and it just got worse and worse. I developed new compulsions and more anxiety. Its a rabbit hole with no answer. I try to ask myself what difference does it make if this ocd thought or not? I dont find an answer but I find its better then spending days, weeks on end wondering. When you can do that you can at least focus on treatment of the other compulsions and start to feel a little better about it. When you see so e changes you start to feel a bit better. If your feeling better and acceoting thoughts might or might nit be ocd what are you losing? Your only losing certainty you cant have. I still question it by the way. So I say this as someone who is not over that fear. I just know it leads nowhere.
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- 6y
I guess it's like perfectionism. With relationships, grades, and just how I live my life. But idek honeslty my brain is seriously messy.
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- 6y
What's the obsession?
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- 6y
I have the same issue. I cant distinguish. When things that I fear come true, it ruins my ability to ignore the complusion.
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- 6y
I really struggle with this too. Unfortunately I feel I have to know for certain it’s OCD or I struggle to get passed it. You’re not alone.
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- 22w
I was diagnosed with OCD around the age of 6, subtype- contamination primarily. It calmed down as I got older and I assumed it had gone away, but also didn’t realize it can show up in other ways, and it still had been effecting me which I know now. I’m not 31 and I’ve been in therapy for a year and it’s helped a lot, although I sometimes get thoughts that what if some of the stuff I’m dealing with isn’t ocd and I’m exaggerating. I feel like thoughts will feel sticky and I’ll do certain compulsions but then the thought eventually vanishes if I do it a few times which makes me think maybe it’s not OCD since other people/friends I know would probably do the exact same thing. Not sure if I’m making sense, but I guess my question is if that thought comes up with anyone else? Just being unsure if something you’re doing actually is ocd or not.
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- 20w
Hi! It’s pretty difficult for me to get the courage to post this but I’m really struggling to figure out if what I’m experiencing is OCD or Anxiety or neither. I think I have the “pure O” type of OCD where most of my compulsions take the form of ruminating and trying to figure out something all in my head. When I hear this talked about in forums or online the intrusive thoughts don’t really match mine- I worry often about things that seem more “grounded” if that makes sense. A common one for me is my own identity- i will spend long amounts of time stuck in my head trying to figure out my feelings (often sadness or other real emotions I have and patterns I have) and why I feel that way and what in my life caused that and how it’s impacting other things in my life. I also think often about which parts of my personality are the real me and which aren’t. Sometimes this takes the form of strictly ruminating and sometimes I have fake conversations with people I know. It’s intense and I feel I have to figure it out but with no specific intrusive thought that says something like “you have to figure this out or all of your loved ones will die” but it’s very intense. I think also often of all of the decisions I need to make in the future and how they’re going to affect those I love and care about as well as how much I’ll regret them. I imagine all of the ways I think my actions will emotionally hurt others and how to make the least harmful decision, but to me this feels like a valid concern but go over and over and never come to a conclusion. I often just get scared and never make any move because I don’t see an option that doesn’t hurt someone somehow. But again I’m having a hard time identifying the intrusive thought behind it. But I also don’t choose to think about these things most of the time. This is almost all decisions but especially big life decisions. It’s such a struggle because they are things I eventually do have to make decisions about. There is so much more to it that would take too long to explain but in general a lot of my fears revolve around pleasing others/ understanding others emotions to ensure they’re okay, my own identity and personality, and work/school performance. Someone mentioned OCD to me because in my head it feels like I have to solve these things and will go over and over them but I seriously can’t figure out if it’s anxiety, OCD, or none of the above. It’s all very disruptive to my life. I am never not thinking or not trying to figure something out and I feel as if I have no control over it Anyone have any insight?
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- 17w
Ok basically I’ve had OCD symptoms since I can remember but now that I’m thinking about it maybe I don’t have OCD what if I believe it so much I have the symptoms I’m not sure and I’m so confused I guess. And I wanna get tested or therapy but I don’t even know if I have it so I’m scared to and I have to remind myself of the time I had a symptom before finding out about it so I can confirm it I don’t know how to explain what I mean I wanna get help but don’t know if I have it
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