Does having anxiety / OCD every single day for a year necessarily mean that you have GAD also? Also does chronic mean for the rest of ur life? Or chronic can mean for a long one ( ex a year then you become better)??

^ok so... I used to have ocd where I focused on my breathing a lot. I went to therapy and there I did a lot of ERP. I learned to let the thoughts come to be, and accept them as hard as it may be and not give into compulsions. Now I have ROCD but for a solid two years I didn’t really have that much intrusive thoughts at all to the point where I didn’t even consider myself OCD. But now I have ROCD so

@naeun, I would recommend going in and getting evaluated to see the diagnoses because that can very. You could do some reading on your own. I’ve had the diagnoses of GAD, with ocd tendencies, then rediagnosed with just ocd. So I’m sure they share lots of similarities, and either way if the same methods work to treat then awesome. So you could have both or one or the other who knows. Ocd has themes, had usually doesn’t have themes that I know of... I don’t know enough to advise further... @cat28, I mean this respectfully and I know you said that you aren’t a doctor but I would avoid telling someone what diagnosis they may or may not...

^ig that means you have GAD. I’m not a dr. For me personally though, my ocd does get better. At one point I didn’t consider myself OCD that’s how much better it got.

Two separate diagnosis, with many similarities in treatment. Chronic means that you will likely always be challenged by your OCD, but you can get to the point where it is an inconvenience, not a dominant force in your life.

@cat28 like some days are good and some days are bad I have been diagnosed with OCD but never GAD? So I was confused Please elaborate how did ur OCD become better?