- 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.
I've been going through every single OCD almost I noticed, and harm OCD always bothers me I have urges but I don't act on them and they scare me. I'm just scared they are gonna assume I'm a bad person that I want to hurt someone. I don't but my thoughts keep arguing and it freaks me out.
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