Does anyone else feel like they’ve really just convinced themselves they have OCD just to feel better about the thoughts and feelings they have? Sometimes I feel like a liar or a fraud. I’m undiagnosed and sometimes I feel like an imposter on this app. I worry that I’ve just convinced myself of having OCD as an excuse for my thoughts and feelings, so I can feel better.
Yes I be having one too! Don’t worry your not alone, all you need is to pray but u know it’s hard to deal with it but I promised you god is on our side and never leave us and he will always be with us! Just know your not alone, and I have question do u be having anxiety too?
@iH3artjeus I thank you for the encouragement 🫶 think I usually do experience feelings of anxiety along with the obsessive thoughts yes, I don’t know if I would actually be given a separate anxiety diagnosis though. I feel like OCD is a type of anxiety disorder.
@Anonymous_confessions Yeah of course, just know I’m always here to help, and we both are human and exact the same anxiety and everything what we felt! May god bless you! Know we all are blessed and okay!
Yes it's call meta ocd and it's really annoying, it's makes me feel like a imposter
All the time, I want to get therapy/help but worry they will tell me it's not OCD and my thoughts are true. I am undiagnosed too although OCD has been mentioned to me quite a few times. Sometimes I wonder if an official diagnosis would help me fight it.
Even with a diagnosis, my OCD Brain still wants more evidence to be "100% sure". OCD can never have enough certainty. It's just not possible.
Yes, I 100% can relate to this. Even with my recent diagnosis, I still have these thoughts. I question, "What if I really don't have OCD and I'm just faking it?" I don't want to give reassurance since it's good to be able to try to lean into the uncertainty. My therapist told me that these thoughts sound like Meta OCD. She referred me to this article. https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/obsessing-about-obsessing-is-this-really-ocd
I completely feel this, especially when I first started believing I had OCD. I particularly have scrupulosity OCD, so I would think: “It’s not OCD, you’re just coming up with excuses to not listen to what God is telling you, how ungrateful!” But, watching so many videos and relating to them so severely, and it probably helped that I had a mini episode? Break down? The day I discovered I had OCD. It probably also helped I wrote down all my thoughts and compulsions and sent them to my friend and he agreed, not really agree, because i hadn’t mentioned I thought I had OCD, worried it would stray his opinion if I had, but he said it very obvious I had OCD. But since then, whenever I doubt my OCD, I just remember all my last compulsions AND my current habits and compulsions. It still feels v obvious if I just think about it for a while, but I know people still struggle with that.
@GoldenArgentavis I’m glad you’ve been able to work through it and come to some clarity. Sometimes it’s good to look at the big picture, not just the moment, because I know I have moments when I seriously doubt whether I have OCD because of how I’m feeling in the moment, but if I take a step back and look at all the experiences I’ve had with different obsessions and compulsions over the years it becomes more clear to me.
hey, i totally get how confusing and tough it can feel, especially when you're undiagnosed and trying to make sense of everything going on in your head. feeling like an imposter is actually pretty common, but it doesn't make your experiences any less valid or real. 💙 by the way, have you heard about this new AI-powered OCD therapy tool called 'unstuck'? when i was in a similar spot, what really helped me was this free AI OCD therapy tool called "unstuck" (unstuckmyocd.com/try) that my NOCD therapist recommended to me. i think it'll be especially helpful for you because it's designed to provide support that's tailored to your specific situation, helping you understand and work through your thoughts and feelings without feeling like you're just making excuses. the AI offers personalized, step-by-step support just like an OCD therapist would, which can be super helpful when things get tough. i hate when people promote stuff, but i really think it can help you because it's changed my life. lmk if you have Qs or just want to talk more! <3
I have this :(
my biggest fear is what if i don't actually have ocd and get exposed as a fraud. im afraid i might have been living a lie the whole time. i keep thinking that im not as ill as others here. i feel like i don't deserve attention, it's like im unconsciously invalidating myself all the time and j can't help but think that im an impostor in disguise. that im just doing this for attention. that i just want to be mentally ill to feel like i fit in somewhere. when i show a new ocd symptom im afraid that oh im probably just copying something that i saw off this app here because i want to feel like i truly do have ocd. i know i most likely have it but im so stuck in this loop of doubt. my ocd isn't as severe as it was in the beginning so that makes me feel even more invalid and i have developed impostor syndrome over the years.
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?
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
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