- Username
- mlem
- Date posted
- 4y ago
stick with the meds, it seems u do have ocd. i just had a breakdown but doing better. it takes time
I hope you're feeling better. Relapsing is completely normal but please reach out if you have someone close to you. Thanks for the comment as well. I'm here also if u need to talk
It takes a few tries to find the right treatment sometimes. Some doctors are more informed than others, some may not be a good fit. Also I know for me being absolute certain that I have OCD and not something “worse” is part of my OCD and I know that’s pretty common, so you may also be experiencing that right now on top of the external invalidation and I would imagine that could be quite triggering
Thank you! I feel that doctors that aren't a good fit sometimes make you discourage treatment, but some are amazing. I relate to the feeling of doubt with the illness itself, it sucks :(
It’s awful to be invalidated by a mental health professional. Keep in mind they’re people too and get things wrong. Especially if they don’t specialize in OCD, they might not know as much about it as they should. This person sounds like a “thinks it’s about cleaning” person. This guy has one talk with you, he doesn’t know you. Your main psychiatrist knows you better and is who you should listen to.
viibryd look into it, been amazing for me :) I do hear good things about zoloft
Well, what you describe is fully related with OCD. I think you should search for a third medic opinion. P.s at 18 I remember sleeping with my parents in a situation resembling yours
Yea! My main psychiatrist is specialized on ocd. Out of four doctors I've seen he's been the only that said I don't, oh well. Just weird bc he works in a hospital. Also thanks for letting me know, it's good to know someone shares the same experience. :)
This is long but I’m hurting and need practical advice on what to do. My OCD is convincing me I’m psychotic. It doesn’t help that I was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and had an ill informed therapist tell me for 8 months that my intrusive thoughts were hallucinations and delusions. I just quit lithium a week ago after being on it for 4 months after a psychiatric nurse who I no longer am seeing told me it was safe to do so. I don’t exactly trust her though since she accused me of being a liar, impulsive, having a personality disorder, and told me I had to take antipsychotics or she would walk away, when I had legitimate questions about the bipolar diagnosis (hence no longer being in her care). My anxiety and intrusive thoughts are spiking worse than ever. My main theme is harm so I’m terrified of becoming manic and psychotic and believing my intrusive thoughts are correct, even though my non-OCD self is positive I’m not bipolar. I’m starting to doubt I have OCD and am asking myself what if I am actually delusional and in denial about my situation and am actually a danger to myself and others. I got approved for a PHP in the OCD and anxiety disorder program at Rogers but I don’t start for another 3 weeks. Has anyone been through anything like this (misdiagnosis, wrong medication making you worse, lithium withdrawal, questioning if your OCD is actually psychosis, etc) and has some advice with how to deal with this? I’m feeling so hopeless and dejected after being tossed around the mental health field like this only to find out I have OCD and could have started treatment 8 months ago and not gotten to this point if my doctors were more aware of this condition
I think I’ve been misdiagnosed. I went to go and get an assessment done with a therapist because I’ve been stuffering from sexual intrusive thoughts and anxiety for about 10 months now. He gave me a few questionnaires to answer and then he said he doesn’t think I have ocd but he thinks I may have clinical depression. I’ve told him that I have these thoughts all day everyday and they make me anxious and miserable but he still doesn’t think I have ocd. Maybe it’s because I don’t have any physical compulsions and I don’t want to argue or doubt a professional but I really think this is more than just depression. I’m not sure what to do now and it’s scaring me because a if a professional says I don’t have ocd then maybe this really isn’t ocd and I am acually the monster the thoughts make me feel I am.
This is half a vent session, half me asking for advice but: My OCD symptoms started on april 2020, one month after the pandemic. that has led me to constantly question whether it’s OCD or anxiety and of course i can’t really diagnose myself but it behaves very differently from anxiety. i’ve also been doing research and reading about OCD for over a year and i honestly honestly think i have OCD because i fit basically all the symptoms? anyways, I finally brought it up to my therapist a few appointments ago and i felt like they kind of dismissed me? not sure if that’s normal. they told me it’s could be because of heightened anxiety and to practice “thought stopping”. that has made me feel sooo bad about myself because i start spiraling and believing my intrusive thoughts MUST be true because of what they said, and because it makes me feel like I’m just using the OCD label for “attention”. i’m not sure if i should bring it up again in a future appointment? or maybe find a new therapist? or maybe I don’t have OCD at all? I don’t know what to do
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