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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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- 7y
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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- 7y
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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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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- 7y
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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- 23w
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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- 16w
Ok, so first of all, I’m undiagnosed. However, I’ve been pretty certain for a while now that what I’ve been struggling with is OCD. My problem though is that it’s not easy to get diagnosed, and in some cases, it would require me to pay money. It frustrates me that I have to pay to deal with my mental health. Is it worth it for me to get diagnosed? I know I don’t need a diagnosis to start healing and working on these things, but I also don’t want to be “self diagnosing” the problem, because that makes me feel like a liar and an imposter. My other problem is that I fear my family doctor won’t properly diagnose me. I came to him about mental health related issues once before, and he read off a very generic list of mental health symptoms. when he got to what sounded like the ‘OCD’ section, we asked one or two very generic questions that had nothing to do with my themes, and since I couldn’t relate, I just answered no to them. He then told me I was fine, that I was just a “type A personality”, and that I was just being too hard on myself. I fear that my doctor might not be very knowledgeable or up to date on current information regarding OCD, and this might make it increasingly difficult for me to get diagnosed. Another problem is my symptoms seem to come and go. I often have an obsessive cycle that can last months at a time, and then it just goes away. Sometimes I won’t experience any symptoms for years. This makes me feel like I don’t actually have OCD or that it’s not ‘bad’ enough to be diagnosable.
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- 12w
I'll start by saying, I have not been clinically diagnosed, as I do not have the funds to see therapists or psychiatrists in my current situation. Once I'm in a better spot, I very much intend to. That to say; after months and months of having issues with anxiety, specifically health related, my partner was the one that mentioned OCD. I did have some somewhat OCD related behaviors in my youth, though those likely could be explained by potentially undiagnosed ASD (as my mother is on the spectrum as well as a sibling, both diagnosed.) But I never considered OCD taking form in a health sense. I posted earlier about how I've had 4 days of pretty minimal anxiety and intrusive thoughts, and it has led me to doubt the OCD label I've been working at treating? I don't want to be the person that identifies themselves with a disorder they don't have, which is why I hesitate to self diagnose with OCD or ASD or anything else. At the same time, I've read that a lot of even clinically diagnosed people with OCD doubt their diagnosis. It makes me wonder if I will always have this doubt, and if that means it is worth it or not to get tested? I know that if I do, they can actually do ERP (whereas I've been self taught and self guided so far) so that would be worth it...
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