Has anyone else been diagnosed with anxiety and OCD traits?

If he does not specialize in OCD I personally wouldn't take too much of what he says to heart. If you feel like you need more therapy when he thinks you're fine, find a better therapist. My therapist told me I was fine and graduated me from the program I was in, but it was a program for people with borderline personality not OCD. They made my symptoms worse. Later i found a therapist who didnt specialize in OCD, however she recognized my symptoms and said i needed to see a specialist.

Me. I was originally diagnosed with GAD and panic disorder by a psychiatrist. Shortly after a really bad panic attack I started having harm obsessions. After some research I realized those are OCD symptoms. I think my anxiety and panic got so bad it eventually morphed into full blown OCD. Whatever the case, GAD and OCD are closely related and are treated very similarly.

Ocdboy55....I agree, I would see a specialist in ocd...reading a lot of your posts and talking to you on this app, I would say you have mental compulsions. Checking to see if you liked the thought, checking to see if people think you would do it, seeking reassurance, those are mental compulsions and since the person you spoke with doesn’t specialize in ocd he would just see this as a phobia.

Rbheaton and ocdboy55...... ocd is an anxiety disorder. So obviously, anxiety got so high that we started obsessing and either performing mental or physical compulsions. But once it enters into obsessions and compulsions, ocd must be treated differently than just anxiety with ocd traits.... OCD is an anxiety disorder. It will automatically have high volumes of anxiety. but obsessions and compulsions can only be treated through ocd treatment...once ocd obsessive tendencies are treated, anxiety can begin to be treated....

Dianna that makes sense, and I agree with you. Whether it's "compulsive and obsessive behavior" or OCD (and I'm with you, I think they're the same. I'm just telling you what a therapist told me but they could be wrong) it needs to be treated by an OCD professional.

Oh yeah totally!! Rbheaton I am not meaning to discount what you said I just hate it when people misdiagnose when it’s ocd...bc it won’t get treated unless you are diagnosed with ocd which is frustrating that some doctors don’t see that :(

I totally understand :)

There are so many not very good therapists out there that I would keep looking until you find someone who understands that your struggles are causing you distress and will work with you. We all deserve this, but I feel like it’s difficult to find this at times.

Yep

How are you coping?

You weren’t diagnosed with ocd? Bc ocd is an anxiety disorder, but if you have ocd traits...you have ocd...never heard of a correct diagnosis where someone has ocd obsessions and compulsions and just had bad anxiety with ocd traits...it would make more sense if you were diagnosed with ocd, bc ocd is an anxiety disorder

Dianaaa Supposedly you can have the compulsions and behaviours but not the OCD? I think its because certain anxieties can make you behave this way too? I'm not sure, but I was told this information from a therapist. OCDBoy55 I'm living with it. Some days are better than others. I've had it to where my obsessions took over my mind for months with only a few hours of a break in between. Recently I'll have it for weeks and then have a day or 2 of peace. So hopefully progress :) This app has really helped me though :)

Yeah I told my therapist everything and he said to me, you haven’t got OCD, you have OCD traits, but you have got anxiety with OCD traits

It may be because I don’t struggle with compulsions anymore

Just obsessions

I did that too but then my compulsions came back. Are you seeing a therapist?

I saw him once, but I told him everything and at one point he was talking about discharging me and then changed his mind and booked me in for therapy every week but I have to wait 9-12 months

He also told me that where I am on Sertraline and with the methods he gave me, I would slowly get better anyway so may not need the therapy

and to be fair to him, it was like 3 days ago now and I do feel like I am getting a bit better already just from having that chat but I do still get the thoughts and sometimes they stress me out

He said to me when I mentioned my OCD, he has worked in that field of mental health quite a lot

This is just me, but I would still get a second opinion. If you trust him and think he can help you then go for it :)

Tbh I don’t really know how to find a specialist in OCD, I just go to my GP and they got me that therapist. But he said he worked with OCD a lot and he seemed pretty knowledgable on it