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I haven’t been formally diagnosed with OCD (yet). I do have OCD though. Not being formally diagnosed doesn’t make me more prone to questioning if I have OCD or not. I do know what you mean though. Times when obsessions/compulsions aren’t as bad may lead to question whether you really have OCD or not. It’s being OCD about your OCD. This is a very common obsession; I think whether someone has been diagnosed or not shouldn’t make them more prone to this obsession in my opinion. After all OCD is completely irrational.
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- 7y
Also I am just curious, what do you mean if your therapist has told you that you have OCD, but you haven’t been “formally diagnosed”?
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Oh okay I understand you. It sounds like you have been diagnosed but I’ll admit I don’t know that much about it because I haven’t been to see a therapist yet.
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Ask for a copy of your diagnostic assessment (it is usually needed in order to bill insurances) if they are not billing insurance they might not have done an assessment. An assessment needs to be done in order to officially diagnose you with it.
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- 7y
I have never been diagnosed because I keep my thoughts usually to myself. But I do have all the symptoms of OCD and struggle with it everyday. Just because you aren’t diagnosed doesn’t mean you don’t struggle with it.
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I went to a counselor at my college but he can’t formally diagnose me for some reason. I’m not sure why since he has a PHD in counseling but I don’t know how all that works. He encouraged me to go to a doctor though and I was given medicine for anxiety and ocd but I’ve never received anything in writing or anything like that saying that I have OCD. I’m not sure if people usually receive something like that or not
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- 7y
Gosh I hate that certain dreams could be hindered because of a disorder we can’t control. @T’Salek
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- 24w
OCD is so much more than just being 'neat' or 'organized'—it’s relentless, exhausting, and often deeply misunderstood. The intrusive thoughts, the compulsions, the anxiety—it can feel like a never-ending cycle that others just don’t seem to get. Many of us have had experiences where even therapists didn’t fully grasp the depth of our struggles. I myself faced difficulty being misdiagnosed and my talk therapist not understanding the full extent of what I was going through until I found NOCD. So many prior therapists wrote off my symptoms as general anxiety, not realizing it was actually OCD all along. If you could sit down with a therapist who truly wanted to understand, what do you wish they knew about OCD?
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Can someone please tell me if there are any other similar diagnosis to OCD I am convinced that I was misdiagnosed or that I miss spoke to the extent that I have made the provider who did my psych evaluation misdiagnose me with OCD. I have intrusive thoughts of suicide constantly. I have intrusive thoughts that cause me intense distress and disgust. I am constantly ruminating for hours on different situations and even crying as I type this because I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I feel like I’m not aligned in a prescriptive way with what OCD is. I am extremely frustrated. I just want to know what is wrong with me And there are so many things that I see within the OCD community that align with my experiences, but I feel like from conversations I’m having maybe I’m just anxious or a flawed person and I’m not saying that for reassurance I really feel that way I don’t know what else to do. This is a recent diagnosis so anyone who has felt this way or has similar diagnosis to OCD it would be great to hear from you. Thanks.
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Hey, so I've never actually been diagnosed with OCD. I did a little bit of research, I always thought OCD was organizing things. But I'm not normal, I have this thing where I feel something isn't right. I obsess over it or if I brush my hand over something correctly then it's fixed. Or I have to do this thing on stairs, I'll walk up a few or down them because something isn't right. I read this thing on memories. I know something happened, but then I doubt myself to the point I don't know if it happened. And I think too logically in relationships. I'll put statistics on things and if they might not work out I distance myself, there's other odd things I do. My family always told me I was fine but then said things like I was messed up, and said to just ignore what I felt. Like I was making it up. I don't know what to do, I don't have a doctor currently, I was never diognosed. Is there a way to be sure I have it? Or a way to stop everything? I just want to stop everything, please and thank you. Sorry for the long post. If anyone can help, I would be so thankful.
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