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- whaletuune
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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- Edu108Edu108
- Date posted
- 5y ago
You should try to research especialists and professionals specifically in the theme of OCD, if you don't you're gonna get wrong diagnoses all the time.
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- Curls.90Curls.90
- Date posted
- 5y ago
During my search for a private therapist who specialises in ocd, I talking to a lady who mentioned possibly schizophrenia which really scared me, despite knowing I don't have it. . It proved to me she didn't know enough about ocd or schizophrenia for that matter.
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- DulceDulce
- Date posted
- 5y ago
HAVE FAITH. I know it is very hard. OCD is at the end of the day the sickness of the doubt right. I understand you want to think "but what if" he is wrong and i dont have this or the other. Sometimes we just have to believe it and stop thinking about and fall in a circle. Im not sure how to do it exactly myself either to be honest. But we need to try our best. At the end of the day, we have a better chance with a specialist than all by yourself right? Cause we didnt study medicine. You got this my friend ;)
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- MaeGreeneMaeGreene
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yes I do. Around two years ago I was diagnosed with ocd, while i do have ocd I was not diagnosed with the correct ocd. My therapist decided that since I have a routine in cleanliness it must mean I have ocd but he never thought that it could be pure o. Now I’m terrified of going to the therapist because I always wonder if they’re just going to tell me pure o doesn’t exist and ocd is just about wanting things clean.
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- Curls.90Curls.90
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yes definitely. I have a hard time trusting any mental health professional. I have quite a good doctor but unfortunately he doesn't know enough about ocd especially harm ocd. Im seeing a psychiatrist next week and still on a long waiting list for therapy. I'm so scared of seeing the psychiatrist I feel like I won't be taken seriously or get a diagnosis but I know for sure it's harm ocd I suffer with 100%. I worry he won't listen to me or try to say its something else..?
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- birdlady
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Has anyone else had therapy with someone who just isn’t working for you?
- Username
- Lera
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I’ve been diagnosed with OCD (strongest HOCD) and have worked on it with a therapist for the past 5 years. It got better, while not completely going away. But now that I have a boyfriend and the stakes seem to be much higher in my mind, my HOCD and ROCD have big time flared up. I went to a psychiatrist to consider options of medication to someone who said he treats OCD. HE HAD NO IDEA WHAT HOCD OR ROCD OR ANYTHING WAS and told me that I may be bi-sexual etc. etc. etc. My therapist told me that this happens so often due to lack of understanding. Has anyone had a similar experience with someone misdiagnosing you and saying your intrusive thoughts might actually be true?
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- Courtney
- Date posted
- 4y ago
This is long but I’m hurting and need practical advice on what to do. My OCD is convincing me I’m psychotic. It doesn’t help that I was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and had an ill informed therapist tell me for 8 months that my intrusive thoughts were hallucinations and delusions. I just quit lithium a week ago after being on it for 4 months after a psychiatric nurse who I no longer am seeing told me it was safe to do so. I don’t exactly trust her though since she accused me of being a liar, impulsive, having a personality disorder, and told me I had to take antipsychotics or she would walk away, when I had legitimate questions about the bipolar diagnosis (hence no longer being in her care). My anxiety and intrusive thoughts are spiking worse than ever. My main theme is harm so I’m terrified of becoming manic and psychotic and believing my intrusive thoughts are correct, even though my non-OCD self is positive I’m not bipolar. I’m starting to doubt I have OCD and am asking myself what if I am actually delusional and in denial about my situation and am actually a danger to myself and others. I got approved for a PHP in the OCD and anxiety disorder program at Rogers but I don’t start for another 3 weeks. Has anyone been through anything like this (misdiagnosis, wrong medication making you worse, lithium withdrawal, questioning if your OCD is actually psychosis, etc) and has some advice with how to deal with this? I’m feeling so hopeless and dejected after being tossed around the mental health field like this only to find out I have OCD and could have started treatment 8 months ago and not gotten to this point if my doctors were more aware of this condition
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