The obsession behind “Do I really have OCD?”

"What if I'm just making this all up? What if I don't really have OCD and I've been lying to myself this entire time?" Many people with OCD experience doubts like these, and there’s a name for them: meta OCD—a subtype of OCD that involves obsessing over whether you’re obsessing. Meta OCD can make you question everything from your diagnosis to whether you’re doing treatment correctly, leaving you desperate for answers. Just like other OCD themes, meta OCD loses its power when you practice accepting uncertainty—one of the core skills taught in exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy. Over time, you can learn to let these doubts pass by without engaging, and keep moving forward with your life. Read more about meta OCD, how it’s treated, and why these doubts don’t have to hold power over you.

Sheepshrum

Date posted: 9d

I do this every time a OCD flare up ends or during a OCD flare up. My OCD kinda sounds like a separate person talking to so it sounds something like "your faking a disorder" or "your lying to yourself and everyone"

Anonymous

Date posted: 8d

Yes it feels like I'm constantly fighting this voice telling me I'm wrong.

🎀🧸🩷🤍

Date posted: 7d

I wonder if it also comes with a fear of the stereotype because people tend to see ocd only as being organized when I have ocd myself and I ain't organized for shit. So like maybe we feel like we don't actually have ocd sometimes because a lot of the times people just see ocd as "being organized" but it's really not. Ocd has different subtypes/themes and it gets way darker than you think. So we're not crazy we're not making it up it's just people who don't understand and our disorder making us feel like we're going crazy.

imanna

Date posted: 5d

I am so disorganized. It is so nice to see someone else with "messy" OCD.

NickP95

Date posted: 7d

Not me literally thinking this as this article pops up onto my feed 💀 thank you NOCD for being ever so comically relevant

caramayo913

Date posted: 6d

I wonder because I thought I had been dealing with it well enough up until this point, so if I’ve survived and I’m not suffering ALL the time it must mean I don’t really have OCD. I’m not debilitated enough. Of course, I’ve also put a lot of work and effort into hiding my OCD spirals and always thought it was just really anxiety.

Anonymous

Date posted: 7d

So relevant! I wonder if I have OCD or if the trauma of working in medicine has just screwed up my brain

murray05train

Date posted: 8d

If there was something “life changing”, this would absolutely happen. It happened when I discovered being Ace, it happened when I would express boundaries, it happened when I broke up with my boyfriend… It happens so much it hurts.

Infinite

Date posted: 5d

If you’re asking the question that way, then you already know the answer……

Anony mouse ❤️

Date posted: 4d

This is literally me every day since finally getting help for OCD. I didn’t know the term meta. Thank you 🫶

savannahframe19

Date posted: 4d

def struggled with this before

buggyladyxo

Date posted: Yesterday

Have this currently with both my ocd and autism, makes me question my entire being

Mommomdd

Date posted: 15h

I thought I was just this horrible person mom and grandma wife Everything I thought in my mind is scary feel like I’m trapped in my own head somewhere something triggers me these. Thought r real but I don’t act on them but why r these thoughts constantly happening the hardest thing is afraid I’ll lose control of myself it has to be severe ocd I’m a newbie but it’s really hard

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