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I've had ocd since I was a young child, but only got officially diagnosed when I was 23. I know the wait can be agonizing. But if it helps, mental health professionals use the same criterion you can find online. Identifying with what you've researched is already very valid!
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Thanks for the info it really calms me down🥲💜
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It’s better to get help now than wait it out. Trust me. I wish I had gotten help way sooner. My parents and partner are terribly worried about me because I haven’t gotten help and my ocd has gotten so bad. Get help and get it under control now. The therapists are so talented and kind. Plus once you start feeling better your life will get so much better. School, friendships, etc Take care of yourself :)
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Thxx I'll seek help once I'm able to find and afford one😂 i live in a quite conservative country so therapy isnt common here plus i just checked nocd and found out its not available here (sadly)
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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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