- Date posted
- 5y ago
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ;)
- 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.
- 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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- 14w ago
I feel really scared and worried that the therapist I find on NOCD might not be effective, and instead of getting better, I might end up feeling worse. I’m afraid that if I don’t feel any progress, I’ll want to switch therapists, but my mom might get impatient with me. I worry that she’ll lose faith in therapy, stop paying for it, and think it’s a waste of time and money. I know therapy takes time and it’s not a quick fix, but I’m scared that things won’t go the way I hope. What if I don’t connect with the therapist? What if they don’t understand my OCD as well as I need them to? I’ve already been struggling so much, and the thought of going through another disappointment is exhausting. I’m only 14, and I feel stuck because I can’t manage this on my own. I need help, but I also need my mom to stay patient and supportive through this process. I’m scared that if things don’t improve fast enough, she’ll give up on paying for therapy. I don’t know what to do, and it’s making me feel really anxious. I just want to get better, but what if nothing works out?
- Date posted
- 11w ago
So, I know my capacity to get fixated on things. And it's normally something that's relatively remote but, my latest issue is really getting to me and I was wondering if people have any advice. I'm avoiding getting too into specifics, as I don't want this to get reassurance-y but, in essence.. I came to the realisation recently that people who I'd been "friends" (feels like the wrong term now) when I was younger were not very nice people, and normalized a lot of very unpleasant behaviour towards other members of the group. They really normalized it, sold themselves as figures of authority, as older and more responsible and grown-up than others, and looking back, they acted horribly. And coming to this realisation, that I'd been manipulated into just accepting their behaviour has just... broken me. My OCD has latched onto it and I can't stop feeling irreversibly tainted by it. I've talked to others about it, and they've reassured me, told me it's not a big deal and that I hold myself to too high a standard, but none of that sticks. I feel better for a bit, then think 'Maybe when you told them you were skewing it to make yourself look better' or 'Did you leave out a crucial detail'. I keep ruminating over and over, trying to remember exactly how everything played out, trying to figure out if I fed into the behaviour, if I did something bad myself (because y'know, I feel like I was accepting of it at the time, so what does it say about my own values?). I know I need to stop doing all this if I want to improve, but then some part of me keeps saying 'So, you're just going to let yourself off the hook then?' Normally, I can rationalize my own fears to some degree, assure myself something won't happen, but the realness of the situation, and the fact I only came to understand the reality of it because the thought had been bothering me means it feels so much more all-encompassing. I know confessing in itself is a compulsion, but I keep feeling that if I'm not I'm somehow concealing what I 'really am' from others around me, and any positive interactions are me deceiving them in some way. I feel like I can't enjoy anything in life right now, and a good part of me feels I should not enjoy it ever again. If anybody has any advice on it, I'm all ears. Or even hearing if you relate to these feelings, I might appreciate the solidarity at least.
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- Therapist
- Date posted
- 8w ago
So you got to ask me anything… Now I’d like to ask you something! I’ve heard from Members that they were so scared coming to their first ERP session. They were terrified that I would think they were crazy, that I would tell them their worst fears were true. That I would confirm they are some form of a terrible person or have them hauled off to prison for their thoughts. I’ve also had Members share how they’re very scared to begin ERP treatment because they’ve researched enough to know it means facing the fear, without the compulsions that have kept them feeling safe (but not really safe) this entire time. They struggled to see how they could be capable of doing this, while simultaneously acknowledging that they did not want to live like this anymore. If you have had your first session, what were your thoughts before? Did you have any hesitations or fears going into it? How did it turn out? If you haven’t yet begun to work with an ERP specialist, what is holding you back?
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