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You need to go to a therapist who specializes in OCD and ERP therapy. Unfortunately generalized therapy is not tuned in enough to work for OCD. And with therapists who focus more on psychoanalytics and connecting every thought and dream to secret wants and desires , you can see why this would be a terrible fit. Sometimes you might get lucky and find a therapist that is well aware of ocd, but a lot of the time therapists that help with "anything and everything " will not have the knowledge you seek. Find help with ocd therapists specifically
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I went to a therapist who told me I didn’t have OCD when I suspected I did. I stopped doing therapy with her and started with NOCD the next week and was officially diagnosed that first session. I was in therapy for five years and never got better because my non-OCD therapists would just engage in rumination with me and reassure me. When I started coming to NOCD I actually started getting better. Like the comment above, I highly suggest going to a specialized therapist.
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I recommend OCD specialists, they will 10000% understand NO MATTER the theme :)
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You have to see a therapist who specializes in OCD.
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But also an OCD therapist is likely going to tell try to get you to accept that you may or may not have OCD and your theme may or may not be true
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I had my second session with a therapist and they told me they don’t think I have OCD. They think that I have just intrusive thoughts. They also said they don’t do diagnosis. I also noticed they did not ask me questions about my different themes.This has made me so confused. Even though I had a terrible fear that a therapist will tell that I don’t have it, (which is the main reason why I had not gone to one) I did suspect I had it because I identify with many of the symptoms. On the website it says that they treat it but I don’t think they are like a specialist. On the first session they described OCD mainly as needing to have things symmetrical and fear of contamination. I have a feeling that they don’t know much about it. I also didn’t mentioned all the themes I think I have because I’m scared to be misunderstood. I am not sure what to do. I can’t afford seeing an OCD therapist at NOCD. Can anyone give an insight, has something similar happened to you? Thank you!
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just been to therapy and i was explaining my contamination ocd and says i don’t diagnose ocd but this doesn’t seem severe enough? so now im spiralling am i just lying to myself and im just a freak. does she mean my other ocds aren’t real either? i’m just honestly so upset. need advice please im just spiralling so much i take medication for ocd and basically have every symptom and subtype of ocd:(
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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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