I feel like real event Ocd is hardly talked about on here now. Just wanted to say you’re not alone if this is your theme. I’m struggling with this today.

It’s no different from any other ocd theme. The theme isn’t really important. I have about 3/4 themes that vary. Any ocd symptoms are potentially signs of ocd. I got diagnosed this year. And by the test that ocd therapist do

No it doesn’t make sense. They only treat people who have ocd and if you don’t have ocd they will recommend a therapist for you that’s not on the app. They would be wasting your time and theirs if they told you you have ocd if you don’t

Thank you. You too! You can do this. Therapy helps if you can afford it

Yeah they will just make ocd much worse

@Justmesadly What do you mean?

@allitta They don’t know what they are doing in regards to ocd and they will make ocd 10x worse. I experienced this for 10 months

@Justmesadly Ok. Do you mean you did 10 months ERP and it didn’t help but made it worse?

@allitta No … we are talking about non ocd therapist.

@Justmesadly I see. It makes the difference, isn’t it? I used non-ocd therapists, they couldn’t diagnose or see my ocd, and technically I didn’t have any ocd help until now. It didn’t get better, it was staining my life all the way for past 25 years. Do you do OCD therapy? Does it help?

@allitta Non ocd therapist cannot diagnose ocd… that is why I said it makes a difference and to not see them because they make ocd worse. Yes ocd therapy helps

@Justmesadly Thank you. I can’t believe how much time I wasted and was in pain without understanding that I had not very obvious ocd - real event ocd which was and is ocd to various stressful life events or relationships tensions. It has been exhausting and life spoiling. I was working really hard to figure out what it was, and I knew it was anxiety related thing, but could not pin down it. I had multi year-two year long themes and obsessions. Could not understand what was wrong with me.

@allitta My therapists also did not see it. Yes, now I started OCD therapy for the first time in my life and believe it is what I need

@allitta That’s how it is for most people. It took me almost a year to figure it out

@Justmesadly Good for you! I am 44! 🤦🏻‍♀️

@allitta Your age doesn’t matter. People develop it and discover it at all sorts of ages. I’m almost 25

@Justmesadly I think my OCD started at 22-23 years old. It just has been plenty of suffering from OCD without knowing what it was. 20 years until the diagnosis, a lot of lost time