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- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 3y ago
hey, i’m really sorry your mom wasn’t as supportive as she could’ve been :( just know that you’ve got a whole community here that cares about you and is here to help! i personally have also had a really hard time talking to my mom about my OCD, and it feels really shameful and almost wrong to talk about. the thing that’s helped me with this is writing down what i want to tell her so that i can explain it better without panicking or having emotions that would normally come from a face to face conversation
This community's great, it makes me feel less alone since I'm aware that there's others going through the same things I am :)
If you’re old enough, you should go for it regardless of what she says. This is your brain, your body and if you think medication will benefit you a lot! Do it. If you’re not 18+ to go to the doctor on your own then you should wait until then but ask to speak to someone because therapy will at least help you hang in there. You got this ! Dont ever let someone who cares about what others think, make you feel like that matters more than your mental health
Unfortunately since I'm not 18+, I'll have to wait awhile longer until I can go to the doctors in the meantime I'll search for someone I can speak to, tysm for the encouragement :)
Remind your mom that she is not a licensed psychiatrist and that you’d rather listen to their advice in regards to whether or not you should go on medication. I’m so sorry she’s not taking your symptoms and distress seriously. If she’s at least open to accepting this diagnosis, you could try to find a licensed ocd specialist now who could treat you for ocd with erp therapy. That will be the best treatment for you regardless of what else you do (in patient treatment, medication, etc).
Tysm, I'll try to find an OCD specialist I can speak to :)
i was in the car on the way home from my grandmas house talking to my mom about my anxiety and how my grandma had OCD but that me and my siblings never really had it (keep in mind I haven’t told my mom about my HOCD yet). i was talking to her about how I think I have some OCD in me, hoping that she would say something along the lines of “yes you probably do!” but instead she said, “you may, but you probably just have OCD tendencies”. apparently you can have just ocd tendencies without having full blown OCD?? anyway, now i’m getting all worried that I don’t actually have HOCD and that all this is just a “tendency” and that i’m actually gay. this sucks. i just wish she knew. i wish i could tell her. i want to tell her so bad but i’m just so scared that she won’t understand. i honestly might just wait until i graduate high school (i’m going to be a senior) and just get an OCD therapist wherever I go to college so that i won’t have to worry about my parents finding out about me going to a therapist ugh. i feel so bad for not telling them but i am just so scared
I have OCD and a while back I sent my mother an article explaining what OCD was like for people with OCD and she still doesn’t get it. Every time I have an off day she says I’m letting my OCD win or she will say that I should schedule my worrying for later. Sometimes she will even say that I like having OCD because I like feeling like a victim. I have told her time and time again that OCD doesn’t work like that but she keeps trying to relate it back to her as in she tries to say that she was anxious once too but then she just decided not to be anxious anymore and she got better. She is also the reason why my OCD got so bad before I decided to get help since she told me just to not be anxious anymore. It’s really hard because whenever I have off days she seems to make them worse.
My mom wont let me go on medication, I don’t know what to do. I just want my mind to go quiet, everyone hates me and my boyfriend is also annoyed and made fun of my OCD. I just feel so alone
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