My brain tends to tell me that i’m lying about my OCD for attention. Or thinking that i’m just using it to lie about my intrusive thoughts…but when I ask myself and others. I was diagnosed with OCD but my brain says it’s just attention. Is this normal?
Yes. Mine tells me I’m lying to myself about having it and that ERP won’t help and that I’m just an evil person.
YES. Everytime I get better I tell myself I never actually had OCD and I’m just making it up because I should be struggling with it more. It’s honestly harder to ignore than all my other symptoms. I’m glad I saw this post because I thought I was the only one.
@Kennedy B Thank you so much. You helped me and i’m glad I can help you feel less alone with this. We just have to be strong together! 🥰
Ocd is commonly known as the doubting disorder, and doubting your own diagnosis is a huge part of it. I’ve also gone through long phases of doubting my diagnosis and deciding I was a monster, and that’s just where more ERP comes in handy. You kind of just have to say to yourself, “I might not have it, I might be lying to everyone for attention, or I might actually have ocd. There is no way to know with 100% certainty, and thinking/worrying about it won’t get me any closer to knowing. I’ll find out when I find out, and I’ll cross that bridge when I get there.” It sucks and is so hard but it kind of stands up to the ocd and allows the doubts to be there, without taking them too seriously.
Yep ocd likes to convince me that I’m not gonna be mentally stable or I’m sick or I’m not in control or I’m an actual psychopath- it’s hard to tell myself no that’s not true especially with the urges but I know in my heart it’s ocd
@secretlyobsessed2012 This is interesting. Mine recently has been making me feel mentally “ill” which has made all the urges so much worse. If that makes sense.
It’s a doubting disorder. So it’ll do that
Just got diagnosed with OCD today. Now I’m doubting/wondering if I actually have it. Or maybe over embellished and am making all of it up for attention. Or maybe I’m not REALLY having intrusive thoughts, or not having them enough. Because I feel like maybe they dwindled down? Idk. What a wonderful loop this is 😂 I thought the diagnosis would help lol!
So I'm not sure if it's just me, but I've been diagnosed with OCD for a couple years, and I've had symptoms since as far as I can remember, but I still feel like maybe it's all in my head and I'm just imagining all the compulsions? I sometimes feel like maybe all the struggling from compulsions is just me trying to sub-conciously manipulate other people to do things for me out of pity. I don't like the pity, and I want to be able to easily do things for myself, so I know it makes no sense, but sometimes I just can't talk myself out of it. Any thoughts or recommendations?
My brain keeps saying what if it’s not OCD and you are in denial and you are just using OCD to cover it all up…
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