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- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 24w ago
im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.
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- 19w ago
I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
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- 11w ago
This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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