- Username
- kat53x
- Date posted
- 144d ago
- Order & Symmetry OCD
- Perfectionism OCD
How and should tell my therapist I might have OCD?
I’m in high school seeing someone for anxiety and panic attacks. I’ve suspected I have OCD for a couple years now but never said anything. My best friend whom I shared almost every school day with at the time and has close family with OCD told me I might it. I always needed stuff on my desk to be perfect or else it upset me. I kinda brushed it off but in the next couple months someone else mentioned it as well. I started looking into it and slowly discovered I’d been having mild symptoms of many types for years. It wasn’t causing me major distress at the time but going into grade 9 I was very stressed and it became worse, nobody could touch things in my room or even enter it without making my stomach upset or cause me panic attacks about something might have been moved. It was harder to get ready because everything had to be aligned and I had to walk a certain way to feel balanced. This also came with having to do something or stay somewhere or else something would hurt my family. Also numbers and times feel cursed and I hoard things. I also might have sexual orientation, religion and relationship ocd but I’m not too sure. I’m still able to do everything in my day so I don’t feel like it affects me too much but I have lost sleep, been late and had many panic attacks do to it. I’ve been seeing a therapist for about a month and haven’t told her about any of this. I know one of her specialties is OCD but I don’t wanna raise any concern about it because I’m scared of being dramatic or wrong about it and it’s also a very anxiety inducing topic so I don’t know how to say it aloud. Should I bring this up and how?