Does anyone know anywhere I can at least get a free diagnosis? I feel so awful and terrified that I'm a bad person, I've been thinking about killing myself everyday. I just want to be normal again, and I feel like if I was officially diagnosed with OCD then I would feel better, even if it isn't by much. I don't know if this would be reassurance seeking but I honestly don't care amymore, I need to know for sure what's wrong with me
I do not know if there are places that offer free diagnosis testing, but there are places that offer low cost based on income.
there is a video called "diagnosis don't make the doubt go away" i think you should watch
I know wouldnt, but knowing i'm not a freak would least make me feel a bit better, even if it's only for a little while
@MushroomStew you're not a freak, i've been feeling the same way :)
@MushroomStew like, sometimes i cant live with the doubt if i am a bad person who is in denial or if im gonna end up doing something bad, but thats the core of ocd, nothing more than fear, what happens in your head stays in your head
@MushroomStew people who do those things dont spend months suffering with the doubt, they KNOW what they want, they crave and desire for it, they feel pleasure
@MushroomStew instead we feel doubt, we feel fear, our avoidance is nothing more than a false way to try to protect what is more important for us, ocd will always attach to what you care the most
@MushroomStew you are not your thoughts neither your feelings, we can go trough it, we can overcome it. we are still the same person who we where before this unfair illness
@kaio16 What if what happens in my head doesn't stay there? What if one day I'll snap and actually do something bad, and that by that time I wouldn't even be able to acknowledge it as bad because I'd already be too far gone? How can I live being uncertain about something like that?
@MushroomStew the thing about uncertainty is because reassurance never works for us, even with ALL our past PROOF that we wouldnt do such things, ocd will always ask for more, so living with uncertainty isnt accepting the bad future, is just giving up the "find out about this now" quest, we never get the asnwer, never
Kaio16 is making excellent points. You will doubt everything. Even if a world-class therapist "confirmed" that you weren't a pedophile after 2 years of working with you, your brain eventually seek to doubt yourself and the treatment, no matter what. This is the nature of OCD. I'm going to back up what is being said here with a video I suggest you watch called, "You Will Doubt Everything." He also explains how to put in the work on this channel. Really helpful for me, too. Please watch: https://youtu.be/UWmhFJXaLkY
For my diagnosis I made a checkup with my regular doc and ended up telling her about it and she referred me to the psych dept and there I was diagnosed officially. Got diagnosed when I was 18 on my own health insurance but I’ve had it my whole life. Some insurance plans let you contact the psychology dept directly and yoy can set up an appt with a psychiatrist to evaluate u
Can someone please tell me if there are any other similar diagnosis to OCD I am convinced that I was misdiagnosed or that I miss spoke to the extent that I have made the provider who did my psych evaluation misdiagnose me with OCD. I have intrusive thoughts of suicide constantly. I have intrusive thoughts that cause me intense distress and disgust. I am constantly ruminating for hours on different situations and even crying as I type this because I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I feel like I’m not aligned in a prescriptive way with what OCD is. I am extremely frustrated. I just want to know what is wrong with me And there are so many things that I see within the OCD community that align with my experiences, but I feel like from conversations I’m having maybe I’m just anxious or a flawed person and I’m not saying that for reassurance I really feel that way I don’t know what else to do. This is a recent diagnosis so anyone who has felt this way or has similar diagnosis to OCD it would be great to hear from you. Thanks.
Hey, so I've never actually been diagnosed with OCD. I did a little bit of research, I always thought OCD was organizing things. But I'm not normal, I have this thing where I feel something isn't right. I obsess over it or if I brush my hand over something correctly then it's fixed. Or I have to do this thing on stairs, I'll walk up a few or down them because something isn't right. I read this thing on memories. I know something happened, but then I doubt myself to the point I don't know if it happened. And I think too logically in relationships. I'll put statistics on things and if they might not work out I distance myself, there's other odd things I do. My family always told me I was fine but then said things like I was messed up, and said to just ignore what I felt. Like I was making it up. I don't know what to do, I don't have a doctor currently, I was never diognosed. Is there a way to be sure I have it? Or a way to stop everything? I just want to stop everything, please and thank you. Sorry for the long post. If anyone can help, I would be so thankful.
Ok, so first of all, I’m undiagnosed. However, I’ve been pretty certain for a while now that what I’ve been struggling with is OCD. My problem though is that it’s not easy to get diagnosed, and in some cases, it would require me to pay money. It frustrates me that I have to pay to deal with my mental health. Is it worth it for me to get diagnosed? I know I don’t need a diagnosis to start healing and working on these things, but I also don’t want to be “self diagnosing” the problem, because that makes me feel like a liar and an imposter. My other problem is that I fear my family doctor won’t properly diagnose me. I came to him about mental health related issues once before, and he read off a very generic list of mental health symptoms. when he got to what sounded like the ‘OCD’ section, we asked one or two very generic questions that had nothing to do with my themes, and since I couldn’t relate, I just answered no to them. He then told me I was fine, that I was just a “type A personality”, and that I was just being too hard on myself. I fear that my doctor might not be very knowledgeable or up to date on current information regarding OCD, and this might make it increasingly difficult for me to get diagnosed. Another problem is my symptoms seem to come and go. I often have an obsessive cycle that can last months at a time, and then it just goes away. Sometimes I won’t experience any symptoms for years. This makes me feel like I don’t actually have OCD or that it’s not ‘bad’ enough to be diagnosable.
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