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- 25w
Not ocd enough
I feel like I'm not ocd enough to deserve treatment . I don't feel as bad as other people do.
I feel like I'm not ocd enough to deserve treatment . I don't feel as bad as other people do.
I get that feeling, but it’s important to remember that OCD doesn’t follow a one-size-fits-all rule, and your experience is just as valid. The intensity of OCD isn’t a measure of who deserves help. Every struggle matters, and seeking treatment means valuing your well-being, regardless of how you compare yourself to others.
i know what you mean, i didn’t really let myself seek treatment for my OCD until my fear paralyzed me from going to work. i kept thinking it’s all in my head (my compulsions are pretty much all mental) and so many people have it worse, i probably don’t even have it at all. but if i sprained my wrist, i wouldn’t think “oh i don’t deserve to get any sort of treatment, because some people break their wrists.” doctors exist so people’s pain can be eased, regardless of how much pain it is. it’s not about deserving, it’s about healing, which everyone is entitled to. i hope this is even a little bit helpful ❤️
Just because your OCD isn't necessarily "bad" right now doesn't mean that it won't be in the future. It's good to have the tools to be able to deal with it when it does get really bad. Everyone deserves treatment so they don't have to suffer as much. There's times where I feel pretty good and the OCD is still there, but manageable. There's other times though where I feel the most awful I've ever felt because of OCD, so I would do the treatment or learn coping skills to help. It can get bad out of no where.
I struggle with this too! But at the end of the day, treatment is for yourself. It isn't to prove to anyone how sick you are or to get some kind of official designation. It's just about what you can do to make your life better. And if treatment will make your life better, then you deserve it and should do it.
We ebb and flow. Work with a therapist and do what’s right for you
Thank you guys this really helps
Ive had an epilepsy diagnoses for a year now, and have started getting intrusive thoughts relating to it. I havent had a mal grand seizure since last year, and have been seizure free for a few months now. Because most of my seizures werent visible I convinced myself I didnt have epilepsy. I even secretly stayed off my meds. I feel like Im tricking everyone into thinking I have it, even though theres medical proof. I think my diagnosis is invalid because Im not struggling like most people with epilepsy. If anyone also has a chronic illness how do you deal with feeling like youre not sick enough
I never heard about people with OCD who have messy living conditions. Maybe this is why it took so long to accept my diagnosis. Although I really dont like how OCD is percieved at by the majority of people, I feel like Im weird or something because I dont fit into that stereotype. I understand that a lot of people with OCD have this issue, but why do I feel so different? If anybody else has/had this belief, what helps with feeling more comfortable? Everytime my mom points out my room, and how its messy- Its like I feel so lazy and useless. So then I often plan out everything I was going to do, step by step, always having a reasoning behind everything, because logic always comforts me. When I start tidying up my room, I go full out (Sheets, Laundry, Clorox, Candles, Vaccuming, Then I start going through the guinea pigs cage to rearranging all of their stuff) Yet always somewhere after doing a few things, I start feeling disgusting and almost shameful of myself. 99% of the time I end up laying on my floor sobbing, noting every little thing about my room. How my furiniture doesnt match, how i would rather have solid floor like hardwood or vinyl instead of the carpet, usually things i cant change… and then barely anything gets done in my room. I start to have a meltdown and often dont take care of myself even more afterwards. A piece of me feels like my thoughts are just me being a spoiled brat and wanting everything i dont have- meanwhile others dont even have a roof over their head. The other piece of me is just tired, just emotionally exaughsted. Please comment any thoughts or recomendations to maybe improve motovation and attitude towards doing long tasks.
Ok, so first of all, I’m undiagnosed. However, I’ve been pretty certain for a while now that what I’ve been struggling with is OCD. My problem though is that it’s not easy to get diagnosed, and in some cases, it would require me to pay money. It frustrates me that I have to pay to deal with my mental health. Is it worth it for me to get diagnosed? I know I don’t need a diagnosis to start healing and working on these things, but I also don’t want to be “self diagnosing” the problem, because that makes me feel like a liar and an imposter. My other problem is that I fear my family doctor won’t properly diagnose me. I came to him about mental health related issues once before, and he read off a very generic list of mental health symptoms. when he got to what sounded like the ‘OCD’ section, we asked one or two very generic questions that had nothing to do with my themes, and since I couldn’t relate, I just answered no to them. He then told me I was fine, that I was just a “type A personality”, and that I was just being too hard on myself. I fear that my doctor might not be very knowledgeable or up to date on current information regarding OCD, and this might make it increasingly difficult for me to get diagnosed. Another problem is my symptoms seem to come and go. I often have an obsessive cycle that can last months at a time, and then it just goes away. Sometimes I won’t experience any symptoms for years. This makes me feel like I don’t actually have OCD or that it’s not ‘bad’ enough to be diagnosable.
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