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- OCDumb >:(
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- 3y ago
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- StormOCDStormOCD
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- 3y ago
I disagree with your sister. I’m going to school to become a therapist and I have OCD. I have through the ups and downs of it and currently going back to the struggling but I digress. I think by having experience with mental illness you can understand and empathize with people more. Crazy is such bad term for those who are still trying to get control of their mental illnesses. You are not alone, we are in the same group as you. Don’t let what your sister says stop you from achieving your goals.
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- OCDumb >:(OCDumb >:(
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- 3y ago
💛 thank you so much. This made me so happy.
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- OCDuser04OCDuser04
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- 3y ago
I strongly disagree. Having ocd will be an advantage to you because you can accept and understand your future psychiatry patients who struggle with it <3
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- OCDumb >:(OCDumb >:(
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- 3y ago
That was my thought process. I really just want to help people like me get better and live a happy, normal life.
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- Sully4 Sully4
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- 3y ago
I like to think of it as we’re unique :)
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- OCDumb >:(OCDumb >:(
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- 3y ago
That’s a really nice way of putting it :)
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- bunniesncheesecakebunniesnchee...
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- 3y ago
That sounds so hurtful and painful to hear. I'm so sorry your feelings were hurt or if that generated another spiral of self-conscious thoughts or worries. OCD wants you to think that you are out of control or crazy; a big part of OCD's tricks I know is that it wants to convince you that you WILL lose control no matter what your better, grounded judgement knows. OCD is a separate current attached to your brain but not a usual function of your brain; it's an anxiety disorder because it is NOT natural. You HAVE OCD with you, but you are NOT your OCD thoughts. It's really cool that you are getting some the help that you need. And I think it's super awesome you want to be a psychiatrist. Oh my gosh!! You will improve so many people's lives and give them hope when they feel desperate or scared. I guess a past therapist told me to "get mad at my OCD" for the LIES that it tells me about everything that I care about!!!! I know you know that if something is really valuable to you, then OCD is going to sabotage your thoughts about this thing. If you want to be a psychiatrist but are triggered by what your sister said and are now enduring a wave of scared thoughts and feelings, I do not know for certain of course, but maybe your OCD is attacking there. I hope you know how powerful and capable your mind is. You can do so much wonder. I hope you're doing okay.
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- OCDumb >:(OCDumb >:(
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- 3y ago
Thank you so much. This was so sweet 💛💛💛
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- beautifully
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- 6y ago
Need to vent... I was at a family event earlier (husband’s family) and my bitch of a sister in law asked me for a Tylenol. I didnt think about it and I told her just grab it out of my purse pocket, the same place I keep my Prozac. Instead of pulling out the Tylenol she pulled out my Prozac and asked me- IN FRONT IF EVERYONE-why I took prozac. She jokingly said “ohhhh these are your crazy pills” i said no I have OCD. She looked at my husband and said “lucky you, most men would love a wife who obsessively cleans and keeps things organized” I was humiliated because I didnt want to sit there and explain the severity of my mental illness to all my in laws, but my sister in law made it look like I take pills because I like to clean too much. She just brushed it off like it was a quirk I was taking medicine for... my husband just stood there not knowing what to say because he knows the depth of my struggles but knew I didnt want him to say anything...
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- o: O: Devon ...
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- 5y ago
I’m having a rough time rn. My parents both told me that they don’t think I could or should be a dr (I’m going to be a sr in college this year). They said that I have too many and too intense of problems to be one - I’ve got OCD, depression, and dermotillomania (skin picking). Normally, I brush things ppl say off pretty easily, but not w my parents. I love them and really care about their opinion. But it’s making me even more depressed, as one of the last things I was holding onto was the thought that I would be able to use my experiences to be an even better dr than I would have been before getting these things. I’ve been suicidal for a long time but I always told myself that I was going to get through this and use it to help ppl. But it’s tearing away my last shreds knowing that not even the ppl I care about the most think I can achieve my dreams. ?
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- Clarrisa
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- 4y ago
My therapist who isn’t familiar with all the types of OCD said that there’s something wrong with me and that this isn’t ocd. He said ocd shouldn’t tell you to do things like hurt people. I’m scared.
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