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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
Gosh I hate that certain dreams could be hindered because of a disorder we can’t control. @T’Salek
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- 20w ago
I’m positive I have OCD I don’t think get too many compulsions but the obsessions are what mess with me. I’ve recently started medication for depression that is as a side effects supposed to treat ocd but I’m not noticing anything with the symptoms. Also who do I go to to try to get an actual diagnosis?
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- 17w ago
I've never seen a therapist or been diagnosed, so I went surfing through to find this community. I've seen a lot of OCD symptoms written online. Here is what I experience that I feel may be OCD. If any of you guys agrees, please let me know. I have only ever been able to call my mom by her first name. I have never been able to not do that. She tried to make me call her mom once as a kid but it felt so wrong that I started crying. Everytime I see a wet floor sign, I say "piso mojado" out loud. I have plenty of harsh intrusive thoughts, such as committing acts of violence when I see people not using their turn signals, interrupting performers at a concert. I make myself re-press on my phone alarms 10-12 times each day in the same rythym until it feels fully set to go off. Light switches get flicked off and on, I can't stand not doing it. I have to double-check everything and make myself re-look through the same drawers at work for hours. I love to write, but I never get far because I need approval from others. My head is also always filled to the brim with thoughts which has made writing and things like memory a lot harder. I can't use spoons. I can only use forks for almost everything. I can't stand them. That's all I can think of for right now. Please let me know what you guys think. Thanks!
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- 11w ago
Hello there. I’m new here and think I may have OCD I’ve struggled with anxiety my whole life. However, in my early teens, I started experiencing obsessive fears and engaging in compulsions because my brain convinced me that if I didn’t perform a certain action a specific number of times, it would “prove” that I wanted something terrible to happen. When I was 17, I began seeing a therapist and opened up to her about this. She diagnosed me with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and I accepted the diagnosis But last night, I became curious about whether people with GAD engage in compulsions and have specific fears, so I looked it up. I was shocked to learn that these are not typical characteristics of GAD Now, I would love to find a therapist who specializes in OCD so I can get a formal diagnosis and the appropriate treatment
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