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Not necessarily damaging but more difficult because ocd needs a special type of therapy
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Exactly this.
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Get a different therapist. They are ignorant. I meet with an OCD specialist on here and received wonderful counseling.
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What if he’s right
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@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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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This might be asking for reassurance but I’m at a point I’m not sure if this is ocd and who better to ask than you guys. Also want to mention I have been to a psychologist who diagnosed me with ocd and I’ve tried to seek therapy through NOCD but had a bad experience so I’m just looking for an opinion I’ll take with a grain of salt. I’ve been through bouts of pocd that I got through but now it’s morphed into something that feels so different. It’s like harm ocd and pocd together and it revolves around my daughter. Before this happened I was a loving mother who valued my kid more than anything. Now this is happening and it feels so sinister. I’m getting urges to do something bad and I get these feelings like I want to do that and it’s like my brain gets foggy and my values slip away and I feel like I could do it. But then I get a moment of clarity and I’m like wait a minute I’ve never hurt anyone in my life nor have I ever thought about it and this is my child what is happening. But then I get that foggy brain again and it’s like I can’t see her as my child. I try to sit with it and it’s like I get this adrenaline rush and feel like I have to do it. But I know I don’t want to do that, but then it’s like trying to make me want to want to. I’m not sure if I’m just lacking insight and clarity because I’m overwhelmed with the groinals, urges, thoughts and feelings but I just keep obsessing over the fact that death is my only way out. I don’t understand what happened to me. It feels like this demonic oppression and I don’t know how to get through this one or if this is still something I can get through because it might not be ocd. I try to go with the thoughts and feelings and say yeah maybe, maybe not, or yeah I’m going to do that but it seems to fuel the feelings. I feel like I’m teetering between the person I was and this evil awful person who has no regard for others. I don’t want to be around my daughter and I’m just angry all the time. The fear and anxiety used to be something I relied on and I feel none of that now. I used to be able to say “well no matter what I feel or think I can control my actions” and now it feels like I cannot control my actions but I’ve never hurt anyone before. Someone please give it to me straight and tell me if you think this might not be ocd.
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It feels like I used to get so many intrusive thoughts in the beginning but now it’s less it’s only thoughts like what if I’m a p what if I’m a p what if I’m lying to myself what if I’m in dentist truly in all this and it was all fake like I’m an imposter, now it’s just feelings and noticing :/ and I hate he feelings that come with it I’m really scared I am one I feel so alone :( I’m taking therapy but my therapist is not specialized in ocd and I don’t think she understands and I don’t want to bring it up bc I brought up a fear that what if I turn into my stepdad and she said “are you attracted to children?” And I said no but it was just an irrational thought that came after I started realizing the trauma that happened to me as a kid, and idk I’m scared to Start with a therapists here bc what if all this just makes it worse and it turns out I am what I fear all along.? :(
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- 6w ago
Told my close friend about how I think I have harm ocd and showed a video describing her experience with it so I wouldn’t have to share mine. Told him how when I see the number 22 I get paranoid that I’ll harm someone, and he gave me advice to go to a psychiatrist then left me on read after we were having a conversation prior. I’m so scared to open up to people about it and now I don’t think I will again.
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