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- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
hi, this is random but how did the whole diagnosing process go? i haven’t been professionally diagnosed yet so i’m a bit nervous and not sure how it works
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- 6y ago
Well for me, my therapist simply asked me questions (about 25) and then I got a score. I got 24/40 which is moderate. I would definitely recommend talking to someone about the ocd. I remember I was hesitant to tell my therapist, but when I did I felt an instant relief. I was in a VERY dark time before I told her.
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- 5y ago
I’ve struggled with trichitillomania off and on since I was 7yrs old. I’m now 38 and struggle with scalp picking. I absolutely feel where I need to pick or pull or scratch. After lots of research, people with trich/dermatillomania DO have an increased sense of interoception. These behaviors are called Body Focused Repetetive behaviors. It’s been lumped under OCD, but it’s treatment is still debatable. It’s anxiety related, sensory processing related, habit related, impulse control related, etc etc. you aren’t alone. More people have it than you may realize. We just gotta work thru it.
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- 2y ago
I also have a sensation of needing to twirl my hair until it breaks. I don’t know if you would call it trich, because I don’t necessarily pull directly from the scalp, but sometimes when a strand twirls around it pulls out at the root. Gross. Anyways, I also get that feeling in my scalp where I have to do that to feel better. I know it’s gotten bad because my hair is so short now, I guess from the breakage, that people are asking if I got a haircut. I haven’t gotten a haircut in years. This is why I got on this site.
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- 25w ago
I am really struggling with harm ocd. ( The fear of hurting others) My ocd is very tough to combat at the minute. I feel like i’m having intrusive thoughts every minute of every single day. Except from when Im distracted. I feel guilty and foul for the thoughts. I have this strong intrusive feeling that feels impulsive, as if i’m about to act on a thought. It almost feels like I want to. But I really don’t and i’m so scared this isn’t normal. I keep thinking. “What if this isn’t OCD” “What if i did that” and it’s really worrying me as it feels relentless and as if I’m about to do it. In my head chest wrists. I feel tired of this. I don’t know much about compulsions etc but i find myself - Asking my bf if he gets intrusive thoughts like me. Asking him if he actually does and asking repeatedly. - I ask him over and over again and check if he definitely does. - I will literally try to fight the thoughts by kind of saying “ as if i’m not that type of person” Then saying everything will be okay to myself. Please can someone tell me if this is normal. Yes I may be looking for reassurance but i need to know if it is, Im scared, i’m crying. Please tell me if you’ve had this feeling of as if you’re about to do it!
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- 25w ago
im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.
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- 22w ago
I have constantly been feeling like if I hit one arm, I have to hit the other and if I set something down and it just didn’t look right or feel right I had to do it again or I had to move it to a different spot in my room I’ve had never been a clean freak, which is mainly what I get told is OCD And I don’t know if I should even have this app. I don’t know if I actually have it. I’m constantly worried that I did something in my past that harmed others and that’s why people don’t like me or I’m constantly worried People are constantly watching me and I don’t know if that’s OCD or if I have it so please tell me I will delete this app and never think of it again if I don’t I just really wanna know
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