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I think we all doubt we have ocd. If we believed we had ocd than the intrusive thoughts would have no power bc we know they’re just ocd and not real.
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I have the same fears. I feel like I don’t “perfectly” fit the OCD category and all my doctors are missing something. But that’s the nature of the disease - it makes you doubt EVERYTHING. Just a constant sense of unease with things. I wish I had something more encouraging, but just know I feel this way too!
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I can relate. There are times where I doubt my OCD diagnosis because I have symptoms that don’t “fit” into the OCD category. You’ve got this though, you were able to do it before and you can do it again :)
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Hi Ruth, I relate to that and am also often worried that it‘s not OCD, also with my harm theme. I would say: there is a standard pattern but each of us has individuality, so it never fits a standard pattern 100%, it‘s not possible cause we all are individuals with individual minds. Did your therapist relate to your sexual/ violent/ immoral thoughts or was he talking about other anxieties and after that you were doubting OCD?
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Thank you all. I just got unsettled when the therapist said that if it doesn’t fit into “harm” or “fear” then it doesn’t sound like ocd. Of course I feel afraid and distressed about some of my thoughts especially when they don’t feel like me, but I often doubt smaller things like my relationship, my abilities, my sanity haha... The idea that I’m wrong and wasting nhs time has upset me a little, but I’ll keep going x
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These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
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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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(21+ ONLY: TRIGGER WARNING) I have therapy today and I’m nervous. I just started going to therapy and I really like my therapist. She talked to me about doing ERP and I’m really nervous about it. I’m scared to tell her the extent of my OCD, and my themes. I’m scared to tell her about my false memory OCD, because I’m scared that what I did was real and I’m just excusing it as false memory, although I have no memory of it. I’m scared that I am truly a monster and I’m using OCD as an excuse—and that she’ll find out and distance herself. I’m just scared that my whole world is gonna fall apart, all around me.
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