I recently received my OCD diagnosis and am wondering if folks have disclosed this to their employer. Any tips or watch outs? I’m in a very corporate / competitive environment.
I don’t see any reason to disclose your HIPPA information to any employer.
Why do you feel like disclosing it?
@r.m.1 I guess I’m wondering if it effects my work sometimes should I be upfront so it doesn’t come back to bite me in a review or something down the road 🤷🏼♂️
@Anonymous You know your bosses and co workers so I think you know what is best for you specifically. I personally wouldn’t want other people to look down upon me for not understanding or feel the need to change my workload compared to my co-workers. Every person, regardless of having OCD or not has inconsistent motivation and performance at work. If you make a big deal out of it, then they could to. Just my thoughts
Personally I would not disclose , it is a personal matter. On one hand there is ADA in the USA on the other hand employers can pick and choose who works for them , most states are “ at will “. So only the most blatant proven discrimination might help a person keep their job if it can be proven after hiring and paying for an attorney.
No one at My works now about my ocd I don't see any reason to tell them
I had a really bad OCD flare up that was affecting my productivity, so I wound up telling my boss about my diagnosis when she asked what was up. It actually wound up taking some of the pressure off of that particular episode, and turned out really helpful!
I honestly tell everyone. I am part of the mental health group at work and they actually asked me to come speak on their panel about my experience with OCD. I have also feared about sharing but I want to change how we handle ourselves at work. We are more than just the work we are doing. We are humans with problems. I try to be open with it because I hope it can help at least one other person. I totally get not wanting to share. It really isn’t anyone’s business. But I’ve shared and many people have come to me thanking me for speaking out.
I feel like in some ways receiving a diagnosis for OCD has in some ways made things worse. I’ve always had what I called “phases” throughout life, which I now know were ocd episodes, but I didn’t really make too much of them and even if it was over several long difficult months, they’d always seem to kind of just pass. Recently I’ve begun my worse flare up in the last few years and now that I’m older I seemed professional help which led to my diagnosis. This all sounds great of course but I can’t actually afford therapy right now so I kinda just have the diagnosis but not the support so now that I realize these phases are actually this incurable mental illness I just feel like I’ve lost all hope that I’ll ever be happy and I feel like I basically obsess about obsessing at this point and it just sucks. Has anyone else had this or a similar experience?
Im 21 years old, I had ocd seen I was 14 when it started it stopped me from telling anyone I have it. It was really bad at the time and I had no clue how to deal with it I even was able to kill myself at one point but decided to have hope it would get better. In time it did got better but I had no clue what was wrong with me and I didn't want to tell anyone. Until this year I finally found out what it was and my ocd started getting bad again but I'm doing better now. Is been 7 years but I really want my mom to know what I been through but I feel like if I tell her it hurt her and I feel bad for not telling her when it started. I just need same help getting the courage to tell her.
Hey friends, I hope you all are well. I just wanted to check in and ask people's experiences about being on medication. I have had OCD pretty much my whole life, just got recently diagnosed 4 months ago and my therapist recommended that I get on meds for it so I have a psychiatrist appointment set up. I'm a little apprehensive about getting on them, but I've realized that I do have some sort of chemical imbalance in my brain that plays a part in my OCD and anxiety. I would love to hear anyones experiences or words of encouragement. Thank you, I hope you all are well.
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