Lost-
- Date posted
- 1y
What if it was never OCD
Is anyone else scared to recover because that could mean that it isn’t OCD? 🙃🙂🙃🙂
NicaNica
- Date posted
- 1y
That doesn’t mean you don’t have OCD. You will ALWAYS have any mental illness. When you recover? That means it doesn’t affect your life.
IwanttobehappyIwanttobehappy
- Date posted
- 1y
Just because you recovered does not mean you never had OCD, you simply recovered from it or know how to deal with it.
Lost-Lost-
- Date posted
- 1y
@Iwanttobehappy No I absolutely want to recover, sometimes I just worry when I start to feel better, that maybe all of those thoughts were something other than OCD and maybe I’m just a terrible person and I’m just pretending to have OCD to reassure myself
IwanttobehappyIwanttobehappy
- Date posted
- 1y
Wouldn't you want to treat it?
FIMILIFIMILI
- Date posted
- 1y
I totally understand! My checking and other easy to notice compulsions are happening way less than a couple of years ago. So now my brain is questioning if it actually is OCD that I have..or maybe it's always been something else. Or I'll be thinking that whatever I'm experiencing maybe shouldn't require therapy anymore. Like..maybe I'm just lonely or something. So then I feel wrong for seeking therapy and like I'm wasting my therapist's time.
FIMILIFIMILI
- Date posted
- 1y
And if it's because I'm just lonely..I get scared to recover. If I'm recovered, then I for sure won't need therapy. And that means I won't have a therapist that I see weekly, and that would be even more lonely than I am now! Nonsense brain!
Lizzie Lizzie
- Date posted
- 1y
I think this is a very common fear with people with OCD. I think many people don’t do ERP because they are scared therapy will reveal the thoughts are true and that they don’t have OCD and have been in denial the whole time. This is a symptom of OCD. It likes to keep us trapped in a cycle of fear and make us miserable x
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- Date posted
- 19w
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- Date posted
- 17w
what if it’s not ocd
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spelamarela
- Date posted
- 12w
Is this happening to you?
Does anyone else ever feel like they don’t feel “bad enough” to have OCD, or that they don’t feel “the right way” for it? Or like they’re just saying they have OCD as an excuse? Because i was so much better for like 3 weeks now and now im on my period and i started doubting again. So because of that im scared that i was feeling to good and that my fear is actually true.
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