So I was recently diagnosed with ocd and I have always been told since I was little that I have ocd tendencies but I worry that I am not ocd enough. Like what if I don’t have enough like things to address. Sometimes I worry that I’m faking it but I can’t tell the difference between what’s fake and what real
I can’t speak for you, but for me Personally, I was so focused on the major theme that was terrorizing me that I couldn’t see all the other themes I have and all the other ways OCD was weaved into my life. I also doubted at first.
Also there is no such thing as being “a little OCD”. You have OCD or you do not.
I can relate, as I think many other OCD sufferers can, as it is quite common to at least sometimes doubt your diagnosis when you have OCD. It’s nothing to worry about. OCD varies in severity from person to person, and even across time for each person. You don’t need to be in the worst possible state in order to “qualify” for your diagnosis. You have OCD, whether you’re having a good or a bad day with it.
Does anyone else ever get obsessions where you worry that your OCD isn’t real or isn’t bad enough to be OCD?
I just got diagnosed today and am feeling unsure about it, like I fed my therapist information to incline her to diagnose me. Everything I said was true, but somehow I feel like I’m misrepresenting myself. Life is not debilitating and I don’t ever have panic attacks or major breakdowns, so what if I’m just a little neurotic and do not have OCD? I felt like I was self-reporting and in my mind it would only be legit if I accidentally divulged my symptoms instead of reading off the list I made. I felt like I was trying to manipulate her into believing me.
Do any of you ever convince yourself that you are faking your OCD in its entirety, I am uneducated on what ocd even truly means even tho I have been told I have it by my psychiatrist that I do in fact have OCD. Because I’m uneducated on the disorder tho, that means that I can’t tell if a lot of the things I think and feel are normal or not, and whenever I think it’s OCD there’s this loudd voice in my head that tells me I am faking it completely
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond
