Are we considered 'mentally ill'?

letsgo

Date posted: 6y

OCD is a mental illness yes. However, it’s one of the more treatable mental illnesses. Although there is no cure, it can be treated to not be noticeable at all, or barely noticeable. Don’t let the label of Mental Illness scare you.

Elina

Date posted: 6y

I’m not sure how the psychological community views it but in the medical and nursing model it is not considered a mental illness but a disorder, from what I studied. Mental Illnesses are considered those that are basically completely dependant on medications for the safety of the patient: such as schizophrenia for example. This doesn’t mean that medications can’t help OCD - but people can improve without them. Another idea to explain the difference between mental illness and a mental disorder is that all people naturally have some anxiety, obsessions, irrational unwanted thoughts, compulsions, preoccupation with food or weight, depression.....and people can shift up and down the spectrum in their lives or in and out of a “disordered state”. They are in the “disorder” category when the symptoms (that can otherwise be normal) interfere with normal life functioning as self assessed by the person themselves. People don’t naturally have hallucinations or delusions (such as in schizophrenia) unless something adversely physical is happening to them (an adverse reaction to a medication or a severe concussion) -so in that case people with schizophrenia or similar mental illness are said to have a mental illness rather than a disorder.

null

Date posted: 6y

It doesn't scare me. I only wondered where we stood on the spectrum. Thank you!

LivvyK

Date posted: 6y

OCD is considered a mental illness. HOWEVER, you are not labeled as “Mentally Ill.” You are a strong, capable, beautiful person who also struggles with a mental illness. Terminology makes all the difference

KayaMarie5

Date posted: 6y

I’m not sure about what the above comment said, but from the psychological community and even from those I’ve asked in the medical, we view this as a mental illness. It does not have to be treatable with medication to be an illness. Many mental illnesses are not curable with medication. In fact, most aren’t. They require both medication and therapy for the most success in overcoming them. Also, just because OCD is a mental illness doesn’t mean you have to let that hold you back. It’s just something we have, but it’s not who we are.

I_am_kiwi_08

Date posted: 23w

Are we mentally disabled?

I know that sounds a bit harsh, but people with OCD think very differently then everyone else and we do strange things. I used to think OCD was just that we overthink to much and have compulsions to fix it, but its kinda alot more than that i realise. Like peoples lives are legit debilitated from this thing. Thats serious and i dont think others realise that. Mabye im concerned too much idk.

pollydol

Date posted: 21w

I kill people with my mind

I don't know what this is, I don't know enough about OCD, my psychiatrist put me on a medication and told me I have OCD and a mood disorder but I didn't ask any questions because I didn't want to be annoying. I have "evidence" that every year, when I think about death, the world kills someone I love, and it always happens twice. I have nothing to help change that, like, I don't do anything with my thoughts or anything numbers or ritually, so I wasn't sure if it even was OCD, but I do move my hands in certain ways to make my friends happy or improve their lives. Also I cant turn off my fan or something SA related will happen (i dont know how) I think that the world is threatening me, and that if I do something wrong or involve myself with certain things, the world will punish me and the people around me, so all I can do is apologize I've tried looking into the different types of OCD, and all of them are things that I've been anxious about before, but I haven't really been so anxious about any one of them in particular or held onto it for so long, or done any rituals, that I would probably not even say I have OCD. Like, I worry that I'm a nazi, I worry that I like kids, I worry that I killed my friend, I worry that I have schizophrenia or am somehow giving myself it, I worry that I'm going to abuse someone, I worry that I've already abused someone, I worry that somehow I might die, I worry people can hear my thoughts, I worry about ignoring my friend when he cried out for help, I worry that God has already rejected me from heaven, I worry that I like women, I worry that if I don't hit the hammer 9 times on the wall when Im using it that just something bad will happen that I dont know what and I don't know why, and I feel like I don't have a single compulsion that can even "fix" or bring relief to any of these things besides saying sorry, because if I say sorry at least people know that I am apologetic for the crimes I've committed, but saying sorry doesn't fix anything except my own guilt so I'm just a bad person looking for sympathy or seeking attention I don't know enough about OCD, and I don't know how to seek help for my condition because I don't even know if that's really what I have, if I'm not just simply anxious, or possibly schizophrenic Does any of this seem familiar to anyone? Can it be this varied and unfocused? Does this really sound like OCD, or can it be anything else, because I don't want to bark up the wrong tree when I could just be taking medication for something else.

isa_

Date posted: 13w

When did you get diagnosed

When did you get diagnosed and what was the reason you knew that wasn't,,normal,, behavior and how did you handle the diagnosed and felt after you got it? I got diagnosed with I think 12/13? And it's bcuz I would arrange tables and my mum found it annoying. But for me the diagnosed was somehow relieving bcuz I knew I wasn't a freak ,but on the other hand I was sad getting the diagnosed bcuz it was written on paper that I am mentally ill

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