years ago i was told i have ocd. i speak with a mental health nurse weekly and he said i don't have ocd because i don't do rituals and now i feel like well what do i have then all my life i was told i have ocd and to be told this has made me feel weird 😢
Rituals do not have to be physical that you can actually see. Rituals can be mental Rituals which are associated with Pure O. I would seek a mental health professional that is well versed in OCD. Hope this helps. God bless
i think i do mental rituals like i'll tell myself i'm ok and keep saying it's just a thought is that rituals
i know exactly for many years that i have ocd. i’ve spent lots of years analysing everything, and have no doubt about it. but then i tried to explain my psychiatrist (he is not specialised on ocd) once that i had it i feel so awful. cause i couldn’t explain to him all that is happening inside my head. and he just was keeping asking me: what compulsion do you made??) i felt like he didn’t take me seriously and didn’t believe me. anyway my point is that therapists can mistake too. so don’t be afraid, if smn tells you that you don’t have ocd, it doesn’t mean that it’s true)) and if you want therapist, better to find smn specialised especially on ocd
When it comes to anything medical including mental health if you have the slightest inkling that what your therapist or doctor is telling you doesn't necessarily align with how you feel, it's ok to seek out a second opinion. OCD is very difficult to explain to begin with because it's based upon illogical thinking, so people without OCD and therapists not trained in OCD have a hard time understanding it.
thanks everyone i just feel abit down and anxious because it's made me think so i have ocd or do i have something else
im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.
TW. Also long post ahead . I’ve been dealing with OCD for the past 10 years. I’m 32 years old . I didn’t get diagnosed with OCD until this year. I was always diagnosed with GAD, panic disorder, and depression. I don’t have your typical compulsions. Mine are mostly all mental. Reassurance seeking, avoidance , repeating a prayer , etc . I have three main themes . Schizophrenia OCD, sexual orientation OCD, and HIV. Sometimes i deal with harm OCD and POCD but my main big three are the ones I listed first . I feel like the schizophrenic OCD is the most debilitating for me. For the last ten years I’ve been thinking I’m losing my mind . I thought once I got to a certain age the fear would go away but it hasn’t and is in full force . I’m constantly checking my surroundings, what I’m hearing, how I’m acting , questioning if things are real and so on . Now I do have times where this theme doesn’t bother me . It’s put on the back burner . I go through cycles . But when I’m focusing on this theme I feel like I’m hearing stuff . Most of the time I can’t make it out but recently I feel like I’ve been hearing a whisper saying “hey” . It mainly happens at night . It sends me into a complete panic and I feel like “this is it “ I’m seeing an OCD therapist and she recommended me to go to this psychiatric place in town to get meds to help my anxiety from the OCD. My last psychiatrist always pushed the newest medicine and was constantly changing up my regimen. I thought I would give it a try. WORST IDEA EVER . Keep in mind my therapist gave me a letter to give to her explaining I have been diagnosed with OCD and explaining it . She doesn't think I have OCD at all. She wanted to put me on an antipsychotic so me with my OCD brain . I asked her if she thought I was psychotic . She said I was nearing psychosis . She called me interesting . She feels like I have major depressive disorder . I'm just at a loss for words. It was honestly the strangest meeting I have had with a psychiatrist. It was very unprofessional. She has no idea the damage she has done nor do I think she cares. I just don't know what to Believe in anymore ... We met for approximately 45 minutes . First time ever meeting. I just want to cry and I’m freaking out 😢
I have constantly been feeling like if I hit one arm, I have to hit the other and if I set something down and it just didn’t look right or feel right I had to do it again or I had to move it to a different spot in my room I’ve had never been a clean freak, which is mainly what I get told is OCD And I don’t know if I should even have this app. I don’t know if I actually have it. I’m constantly worried that I did something in my past that harmed others and that’s why people don’t like me or I’m constantly worried People are constantly watching me and I don’t know if that’s OCD or if I have it so please tell me I will delete this app and never think of it again if I don’t I just really wanna know
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