- Username
- Spiritsinmyhead
- Date posted
- 3y ago
You should go. If you are diagnosed with OCD then you will be able to get the help that you need to reduce the thoughts. Therapy is there to help you.
I had one therapist tell me it was GAD and another say it was OCD and I’m still doubting its either lol it’s tough and I feel for you. Trying to figure out if it is or isn’t ocd is exhausting. But now that we’re talking about it, my therapist says figuring it out IS ocd itself. Makes sense. And that the most important thing here is to learn how to stop ruminating. To broaden the gap between thought and action, and to then make a decision to not ruminate.
You should still go, therapy is meant to help you and you can change your therapist and decide what you should tell them and what you shouldn’t. You might not immediately get diagnosed, it took awhile for my therapist and I to see if I had OCD. At first we thought it was just a form of extreme anxiety disorder but as it worse over a couple months that when we realized it was OCD and I was able to get the right care I needed to treat my disorder. Therapy does help, trust me 😊
I agree with everyone else. You should go to therapy. I suggest getting a therapist through NOCD. Its perfectly normal to have mixed feelings when I got diagnosed. I felt relieved, sad, angry, and disappointed. I'm not going to lie to you ERP is crazy hard and uncomfortable. I've only done ERP a couple times. But I have already noticed a big difference. You don't have to keep letting OCD win. OCD recovery IS possible. You just have to work for it and trust the process
even though my therapist told me i have ocd i still feel like i’m not like “ocd” enough… especially cause some days it is better and some days it is worse 😔 and even though my therapist told me i have it i’m not diagnosed so i just stress about it ❌❌ i just want my brain to turn off i realized i have had a lot of ocd symptoms since i was a child so it just sucks and what if i don’t have ocd and there is nothing wrong and i’m just like this 🤔🤔🤔
I went to see a psychiatrist today. She was pretty nice, but even though I was listing ALL symptoms of OCD, all the obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, she was uncertain about it, as if she did not understand what was going on. She didn't rule out the possibility of me having OCD, but she didn't confirm it. I understand that doctors usually won't diagnose patients in their first visit, but goddamn... I'm so scared right now. I keep doubting that I have OCD myself, I identify with all the symptoms but I doubt it all the time and feel the need to reassure myself that I have the disorder. If I don't have OCD, my life is fucking over. She gave me a diagnosis for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and prescribed me some medication. I received that diagnosis because I shared some of the trouble I'm going through at work. But if I fear that I don't really have OCD if an actual mental health professional can't recognize that as OCD. All the relentless researching, rumination, mental checking/testing, spending hours doing these things to achieve a sense of certainty and avoiding things out of fear of getting triggered.
I dont know if I have ocd really but I think I do because I have the intrusive thoughts and I always try and do things to soothe the anxiety. I've been dealing with this for a few months and this is a debilitating cycle and I wish I wad normal. when I first spoke to my therapist about it, she said that people with ocd like to clean and count a certain amount of tiles and stuff like that. I really want to get tested because I want help but im scared that if they say I don't have ocd then that means my intrusive thoughts are true and that I'm the person that my mind makes me think I am and it scares me. I mostly deal with symptoms of pocd so I try my best to avoid kids and sometimes I won't even want to go in public because of it and I count in my head a lot and try and see if my body is reacting any kind of way. I also try and just push the thoughts a way and do research and sometimes it makes me feel better but in reality it's just a cycle and it's terrifying so can someone please comfort me or give me advice and tips to help me feel better because I really need it. I just want to get help and stop this cycle because it's slowly killing me. I don't want to be the person my head thinks I am but in my head it's just constant fear anxiety and uncertainty.
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