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For it to be classified as a disorder it honestly depends on the severity of it. How much distress it causes you, interference with your daily life, etc. I don’t think OCD would ever be considered just as part of anxiety. OCD is not just anxiety. OCD doesn’t usually just go away on its own once you have it... so I don’t think the time frame necessarily matters for this disorder. It’s also worth mentioning that most people with this disorder don’t get help for a considerable amount of time after they start experiencing symptoms.
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i have GAD and OCD, it’s possible to have both.
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- 6y ago
Agreed with Pineapple... I was misdiagnosed a few times with GAD... because it’s often misunderstood and/or we hide it well. When I suffered from pocd symptoms, I didn’t feel I could share those thoughts. One of the big separations of ocd and anxiety is, while ocd can cause anxiety, there are obsessions and typically compulsions involved as well. Repetitive thoughts, feeling urges to do something in order to relieve or avoid those thoughts, there are many symptoms... I suggest going to iocdf.org to learn more and see if you can relate... good luck!
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I was diagnosed with severe GAD with ocd tendencies when I was a child. Idk if that was right then or not I think maybe I had difficulty conveying how I felt. Now diagnosed with OCD (not tendencies) and depression, though I still have anxiety that isn’t directly related to ocd.
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^^^ same ?
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- 20w ago
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)
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Can OCD mimic depression? With this theme I’m always wondering if I have OCD or depression. It first started out as harm OCD and now this. Today I told myself if I did have depression then it’s treatable and I would work on it. Then I started to feel depressed and emotional and like had an urge to google the difference. When I did this I just broke down because I felt like I related to them, it made me worse. However when I look up OCD symptoms it makes me feel better. So now I’m unsure. Almost like OCD wants me to believe it’s depression
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i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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