Venting and need some advice

I really do want to go to therapy or psychiatrist to diagnosed my OCD and give me a treatment but it costs a lot. OCD ruins my life and consumes my mind I wish I can take a break from my own brain. Having OCD but undiagnosed feels like I’m crazy because people think I made that up but they don’t know how I’m struggling since I was a kid. So anyone have an advice for treat OCD especially checking OCD that doesn’t cost money? because I don’t work yet..🥲

rbaker247

Date posted: 14w

sounds like you could self-diagnose , you know what your issues are and if you've been struggling with it for a long time you can put all the evidence together and make a self-diagnosis , nothing wrong with that , you can't prescribe yourself medication but you can evaluate whether or not you need medication , but it's always good to have a outside perspective because often times we don't see or hear our own behaviors because they're so commonplace , and that third party perspective conclude you in and help you further refine your diagnosis and if needed you can take that diagnosis to the therapist and get a consultation and possibly get your medication prescribed if needed I am a huge proponent of no medication of any kind I did the MHMR shit I went to a lot of therapists and a lot of psychiatrists to try to overcome my issues and the stuff they prescribe actually made it worse and I don't like being a guinea pig trying different flavors of drugs to see which one's going to work and which ones going to cause a division in my consciousness just work on you there is nothing wrong with that if you've been suffering with it stand up to yourself and make the changes you know you need to make I know that's easier said than done but believe me after 55 years of fighting with myself I finally decided I had enough , prescriptions didn't help illegal drugs from the street didn't help I tried everything ultimately it came came down to making a decision and then standing by it no matter what my brain told me and no matter what my physiological response was , I had to establish that authority over myself that may sound crazy in y'all may not think it's possible but I'm telling you after 55 years of listening to therapists and listening to psychiatrists and taking all the bullshit they prescribed and then trying to legal substances in the same manner to alleviate the same problem when ultimately it came down to me making a decision and enforcing it upon myself . yes I still get intrusive thoughts , occasionally I'll have a physiological response , but I also know and I'm confident that physiological responsible pass and that's the intrusive thought is just random bullshit , and that I had the strength the ability and the wherewithal to ignore it and it took a while I'm telling you all it takes a while to build that up to where you're confident because believe me , what you're doing is overcoming a a part of yourself , and that part of you has been with you a good majority of your life so understand it's going to take a while to reprogram your thought patterns , but you can do it and you can do it without a prescription or without any kind of chemical substance ,

Anonymous

Date posted: 14w

@rbaker247 Thank you so much for your perspective

Hopeful58

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 14w

Prioritize your spending for your health right now. NOCD is reasonable and it will help you tremendously!!! You are worth it!

Rohannn

Date posted: 11w

I really need advice.

I'm 15 turning 16 soon and I'm 100 percent convinced I have ocd.. I have been having major symptoms since I was 13, the constant what ifs, rumination, compulsions, guilt, anxiety from intrusive thoughts. I tried to open up about it to my parents when i was 13 but they dismissed it cause they don't believe in mental health.. I really want to get better. My parents won't listen to me and I don't wanna tell a teacher at school cause that would make things worse as they would just tell my parents and obviously since I'm 15 I can't afford therapy.. I don't know what to do :(

Anonymous_co...

Date posted: 11w

My problems with being Undiagnosed

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.

PenguinB

Date posted: 10w

Getting through life when therapy is unaffordable

Hi everyone, I'm in a bit of a difficult situation and I wanted to ask for some advice. I recently finished my studies and I am living from my savings while I look for a job. However this process has turned out to be a lot more difficult and tedious than I expected. I suspect I have OCD as I relate to a lot of the experiences described here, in particular those corresponding to pure OCD. I have continuous intrusive thoughts about how what I'm currently doing is not enough, I constantly need to reassured that what I'm doing is right, with some magical thinking and concerns about my relationship sprinkled in. These intrusive thoughts have made it very difficult to make any significant progress in looking for something. Added to this I'm not even sure I have OCD as I don't have the money to afford therapy right now (my mind keeps telling me that it's silly to write this message because there's no way I have OCD). I live in Switzerland so as far as I understand my insurance won't cover sessions with NOCD. In conclusion I'm a bit stuck, therapy would help with finding a job but I need a job to get therapy. If any of you have had any similar experience and have some piece of advice it would be very welcome.

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