Cant believe how many mental health 'professionals' and the crisis team don't know what harm ocd is. Tell me they've never heard of it. Dismiss everything ive told them. Makes me feel so alone and so stupid. Calling a crisis team is meant to help. But it's made me feel 100x times worse.

FernandoV

Date posted: 5y ago

I hear you. There is so much ignorance about OCD. Even psychologist who are not properly trained don't understand it very well.

madaraa

Date posted: 5y ago

i feel you , its gonna be ok . you can buy books on harm ocd

Curls.90

Date posted: 5y ago

I've got a book on harm ocd It is a good book. But today, despite feeling positive last night I woke up feeling really anxious, so anxious it was making me dizzy. The crisis team in the UK are meant to be there for pepple when they need to talk urgently. The guy was rude quite frankly, didn't listen to me interrupted almost everything I said. He was very sarcastic and said I've never heard of harm ocd, don't call it that call it ocd. I'm gonna put in a complaint about him he asked me if I was taking meds to which I answered no cos I have a fear of taking them due to bad past experiences and he basically said well we can't help you if you don't take meds. Basically saying they only help people on medication. He was just so rude and sarcastic. Made me feel really shit about myself. ?Why are people so uneducated about ocd. These are mental health professionals ffs. I'm sorry guys I'm just so upset.

Nickyngo

Date posted: 5y ago

That’s the same thing happened to me. I tried to get professional help from a psychologist and she looked at me like I was crazy saying the things I’m dealing with is normal and everyone struggles with it. I really feels stupid for seeking professional help.

Curls.90

Date posted: 5y ago

I'm sorry to hear that ? seems like a lot of people are in the same boat. What does it take for us sufferers to be heard and taken seriously? I've put in a complaint about this man because he has made me feel so much worse aswell as making me feel stupid. In the UK the crisis team are there for people to talk too in times of crisis. So to be told they aren't and can't help me if I don't take meds is just ridiculous. Well I'm gonna start taking them tomorrow although I've got very little faith In them He said oh other people take them and I said yes but with meds they don't work for everyone it's not one size fits all.! Stupid uncaring man

Sage._

Date posted: 14w ago

I don't think I can handle my ocd anymore

I can't stop thinking about ending my life. I feel like I'm not even living, I'm just surviving. Everyone is capable of being a person and functioning and I'm just stuck here avoiding everything. My psychiatrist said my ocd is severe and it will all take time and I'll start erp and I'm already on medication but I just feel so depressed and like I won't be able to handle erp and it's already too late for me. I feel inhuman, it's debilitating. My major theme is just fear or contamination, I can't even make myself a meal I can't touch anything in the kitchen. I get stuck in the shower for 2 hours and when I don't shower because I'm depressed I feel like a walking germ. My hands are a mess, my school work is shit, I avoid and avoid and I'm just so tired of "living" like this. My psychiatrist said they don't have any therapists available right now like.... excuse me? What do you mean u don't have any 😭 I honestly don't even know why I'm typing this becuase nothing helps, nothing ever will. I'm so deep into this I can't get out, my room looks like shit, I can't live in this body anymore, I really can't. I let everyone down, I am and will be such a dissapointment. I don't have any dreams or goals or passions I just wasn't made to be here. I don't know how or who to ask for help like there's nothing anyone can do, I'm already on meds. I can't keep being like this, seeing everyone judge me for acting insane.

Gato0z

Date posted: 10w ago

Help

Told my close friend about how I think I have harm ocd and showed a video describing her experience with it so I wouldn’t have to share mine. Told him how when I see the number 22 I get paranoid that I’ll harm someone, and he gave me advice to go to a psychiatrist then left me on read after we were having a conversation prior. I’m so scared to open up to people about it and now I don’t think I will again.

Brian :)

Date posted: 8w ago

My mental health is declining due to ocd. It’s like a huge mix between ocd episode and depression wave. I feel weak and hopeless. I wanna cry. I’m exhausted . I feel like I’ve lost myself again.

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Cant believe how many mental health 'professionals' and the crisis team don't know what harm ocd is. Tell me they've never heard of it. Dismiss everything ive told them. Makes me feel so alone and so stupid. Calling a crisis team is meant to help. But it's made me feel 100x times worse.

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