my therapist has me doing a OCD diagnosis test to see if i have it.. and i’m scared to check off some of this stuff.. i don’t want a van to be waiting outside for me from being vulnerable.. she isn’t an NOCD therapist or she isn’t all things OCD.. she’s a regular therapist with some experience.. i don’t wanna be in grippy socks omg
Before you do it, ask a lot of questions. Does she use ERP? What type of exposures does she use? How much experience does she have treating it? etc. I don’t think anything bad is going to happen to you, but it’s important to see a specialist bc a regular therapist may cause more harm than good in your recovery process.
@blazed I agree! thank you so much!!
The woman I originally saw for therapy was a “trauma specialist”. Which I didn’t actually know right away. She traumatized the heck out of me. You don’t want your therapist saying “oh you were just groomed, what else you got!!??” I’m still pissed, 2 years after firing her. I now have an OCD specialist and found on this app. Nothing shocks him and I trust him with my mental health. I’m skeptical of therapists with their own agenda. When I took the test I was scared I didn’t have ocd. Then I’d have to start all over somewhere else. I feel like my last therapist weaponized my ocd. Be really careful please.
@Ghostdog omg i’m so sorry that happened to you.. thank you for sharing! i’m happy you found a therapist who actually listens and understands!
The only thing I would shy away from is an indication of having "plans" if you struggle with ideation. That and being a danger to others are really the only flags that a provider would probably jump to thinking someone needed that type of intervention. Otherwise, it's best to just be honest. They may be evaluating your YBOCS among other things and properly knowing how severe it is for you is important. If you go through with the screening and do need OCD treatment, I'd recommend finding a specialist. Even if you are seeing both, I can't recommend having one enough. It's a totally different ball game.
@messengervl Right, but i don’t think people who struggle with OCD have plans of doing that.. it’s just a theme that makes them afraid that they might. So you’re saying don’t check those themes off?
@FunkyFred No! If it's a theme, do it for sure. I'm talking about true, desperate ideation where you've made plans or arrangements. Those two things are very different. When it's a theme, there's an underlying rejection of that, even when it doesn't feel like that. True ideation is much deeper and thus something that needs to be dealt with as an immediate concern of safety.
@messengervl Gotcha! thank you so much!
My therapist who isn’t familiar with all the types of OCD said that there’s something wrong with me and that this isn’t ocd. He said ocd shouldn’t tell you to do things like hurt people. I’m scared.
I’m scared of the exposures I’m going to be asked to do with NOCD therapy.
Hey so my therapist doesn’t know a lot about ocd and I think I might get a new one but she told me that during this time it’s normal to question “my morals” and now I’m scared I’m actually questioning my morals. I haven’t actually thought any questioning thoughts and now I’m scared that I am. I’m scared that I’m going to be okay with harming people, pedophilia, rape, etc. not to ask for reassurance but this is really hard. I’m constantly scared that I’m going to all of the sudden think those things are okay.
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