- Username
- Clarrisa
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Not necessarily damaging but more difficult because ocd needs a special type of therapy
Exactly this.
Get a different therapist. They are ignorant. I meet with an OCD specialist on here and received wonderful counseling.
What if he’s right
@Clarrisa What if he is right? Sit with that discomfort without giving into compulsions like reassure or posting on this app. That is the only way to overcome OCD.
Absolutelt wrong what your therapist said. You should really really meet with a therapist on here. I felt really awful about some of my thoughts and behaviors but having my therapist say “this is typical for ocd” helped make me feel less alone.... and he’s also wrong cause ocd does tell you things that aren’t true/make you think certain things and then u play games with your mind. So your therapist obviously doesn’t know enough about ocd. See a therapist on here. It’s also cheaper.
Seeing a regular therapist may be damaging because they may provide you with reassurance without knowing it or make you feel bad about yourself (like yours did) because they aren’t specialized in all the different types of ocd. They’re tons of people on here with similar thoughts and concerns. You’re not abnormal
Hey there, yes definitely need to see someone who understands all subtypes. Believe me when I say your thoughts can't be any worse than mine believe me. 50 dollars a week is all u have to pay if NOCD doesn't take your insurance.
i experienced something very similar. got diagnosed by a psychiatrist who said that my symptoms were too acute to be ocd and that i was a danger to others. was super disheartening and made me feel like a basketcase. you should switch therapists bud
Yes. I agree. New therapist. Just because someone claims to be familiar with ocd and its thoughts or psychology in general doesn’t mean they specialize in subtypes or know anything about ocd at all. I had a psychiatrist upon me talking to her for 20 mins tell me I had schizo affective disorder and no OCD. I did explain to her my thought process and my ruminating and the thoughts won’t leave. Idk how she got me as being schizo affected. My therapist was telling me that Therapist/ psychologist will grasp on to what they know and understand. So I would talk to someone else.
Hey so my therapist doesn’t know a lot about ocd and I think I might get a new one but she told me that during this time it’s normal to question “my morals” and now I’m scared I’m actually questioning my morals. I haven’t actually thought any questioning thoughts and now I’m scared that I am. I’m scared that I’m going to be okay with harming people, pedophilia, rape, etc. not to ask for reassurance but this is really hard. I’m constantly scared that I’m going to all of the sudden think those things are okay.
just a couple days ago i experienced this for the first time from watching the new DAHMER series. Im having intrusive images and thoughts of me harming or killing my loved ones and its so scary because i would never do it. It has me questioning if im crazy and im having severe panic attacks over 3 times a day. Im mentally and physically drained, i’ve told my mom about it and we are going to see a therapist tomorrow. Im scared to because idk if they specialize in OCD and if i tell them my thoughts they are gonna put me in the mental hospital or say im crazy and don’t have OCD, can any therapists on here or fellow people with Harm OCD let me know if you think im showing signs of it, i just want it to go away and to be able to sleep at night without severe overthinking.
TW: taking human rights away, people misunderstanding your OCD - - Note: this wasn’t anyone at NOCD It was very hard and I’m worried that they’ll do something like lock me away just in case my thoughts are real or something like that. They did reassure me that they’ve heard thoughts like that from people before and they made it clear they understood what OCD and intrusive thoughts are… but they also ‘had to’ (their words) ask if I have ever acted on my thoughts etc (which I of course said no) but it still triggered me to feel doubt and like maybe I was lying to them. And also, since I’ve got to this stage of telling professionals, I feel a diagnosis may come soon and I’m worried about what if I’m not actually OCD. If I’m not I don’t know what I’d do (do as in figuratively, I’m not saying I might do something)… Can the intrusive thoughts still be not real if they’re not OCD? Also though, I told them about my mental compulsions but after they still asked if I do anything like have a physical routine I have to do (no) which makes me worried maybe they’re not familiar with mental compulsions being a thing.
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