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- 6y
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- 6y
As someone who lived with OCD for 9 years before getting a diagnosis, I understand how you feel. This is just what I did, but what you can do is talk to your doctor once again and explain what’s been happening, and if you have access to one, I recommend trying to find a psychologist or a psychiatrist. For me, I see my doctor who prescribes my anti-anxiety medications, and then I see my psychologist for cognitive behavioral therapy. As for the medication you’re currently on, if you haven’t been on it for that long you most likely won’t feel the full effects for a little while, or you may just need a different dosage or a different medication altogether. Just know that even though you feel lost, there are plenty of us with OCD who understand what you’re feeling. This was a very long message, but I hope that you have a nice day!
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- 6y
Same here, I had weird thoughts as a kid but as I got older they caused so much distress to the point where i really believed my only hope was to turn myself into the authorities. My relief came when i realized millions suffer from ocd.My best advice is to see an ocd therapist
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- 6y
yeah go see a professional, i thought ocd was just being neat as well! remember googling my symptoms and i did not want ocd at all so i just ignored it and didn’t accept it. dumb move which probably made my ocd worse because it was never treated until now.
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- 6y
Yeah I’m the same I’ve not been to a doctors as I’ve always been scared (I’m not sure if I’m scared of being on meds or actually being told I have it by a doctor idk)! Every test I do says I should go to a doctor and I have spoken to a mental health first aid trainer and she thinks I should go too! Kind of realising I had ocd made me feel a bit better I would get these compulsive urges and strange thoughts and ocd gave me an explanation!! I currently live abroad so when I’m home I’m actually going to go to a doctor!
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- 6y
I understand the frustration. I was 12 when I was diagnosed. Before that I felt so confused as to why I was feeling the way I was. All of my fears were so obscure and irrational. I never had the privilege to say that I was stressed because of school and mean it. Go see a psychiatrist! Preferably see someone who specialises in CBT or OCD! A diagnosis brings so much relief!
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- 25w
I've never been diagnosed with OCD, but have thought for a long time that I do have it. I've tried to bring it up in therapy but have been shot down as "OCD tendencies". Luckily I'm with a new therapist and am planning to bring it up again. Especially after reading a lot of your posts, I'm really resonating with them. Especially my anxieties and obsessions with my health. God forbid I feel any weird pain or ache, I instantly think I'm dying. Sometimes I get a weird pain in my head and think it's a stroke or aneurysm. Ill go as far as the perform the stroke FAST test. This happens multiple times a day. I also have HUGE anxieties about death and my mortality. If I think about it too much, I get this deep cold pit in my stomach and spiral. Even talking about it causes me sooo much distress. I'm just worried I'll be dismissed or told I'm just self diagnosing because I related to a post online. But if any of this sounds accurate, please let me know. I'd love to be reassured of my obsessions rather than just dismissed as being anxious.
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- 20w
Hello there. I’m new here and think I may have OCD I’ve struggled with anxiety my whole life. However, in my early teens, I started experiencing obsessive fears and engaging in compulsions because my brain convinced me that if I didn’t perform a certain action a specific number of times, it would “prove” that I wanted something terrible to happen. When I was 17, I began seeing a therapist and opened up to her about this. She diagnosed me with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and I accepted the diagnosis But last night, I became curious about whether people with GAD engage in compulsions and have specific fears, so I looked it up. I was shocked to learn that these are not typical characteristics of GAD Now, I would love to find a therapist who specializes in OCD so I can get a formal diagnosis and the appropriate treatment
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- 20w
i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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