What helped you seek OCD treatment? It's been over a year and half since extensive online research helped me conclude that it's very likely I have moderate/severe OCD. Despite the fact that it severally impacts my daily life, I'm struggling with reaching out for professional help. Held back by mounting fear, anxiety, and doubt I'm having a very difficult time getting help. So I'm just wondering what helped others take that first and speak to a professional.

When I first got this app, I started getting over my fear that having a therapist wasn’t a “normal” thing to do. I also have plenty of friends that had been in therapy and had a good experience. Noting others in this community that have thrived under professional help, I reached out to my doctor and was recommended a therapist. I’ve gone from moderate/severe OCD to minor OCD - the closest one can come to curing OCD, since there is no cure - and my life has much improved. I’ve completed my therapy course and see the decision to go in for professional help as one of the best decisions of my life. I think, if you feel that you’d benefit from it in even the slightest way, that it’s completely worth it. Good luck!

I just wanted to get better and the only way I could do that was to get help. Have a strong enough will to get better to at least go get diagnosed. It's really relieving once you do

What started me on this journey was that the OCD got so bad that I concocted a full on false memory saga that debilitated me. I put myself in the hospital with the belief that I was more or less turning myself in for a murder that I didnt know I had committed. I got there and that's the first time someone told me that they didnt think I was bi polar, but had OCD. I obsessively researched this condition and concluded that it all makes sense now, and with all of that research I read more and more about the only way out of OCD is therapy. I have a fear of medications as I was over-medicated throughout my adolescence for ailments that I didnt actually have. So yeah, I just wanted to get better and be able to enjoy my life for the first time ever.

Just do it! If you’ve made up your mind to do it, take the plunge. If you need some support to get started, schedule a time with someone who cares about you to sit down and make an appointment, even if it’s just a phone call. Good luck!