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- 3y
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- 3y
I totally understand what you mean. For me it's difficult to sometimes emotionally understand the ups and downs of OCD. Some days I feel so calm (I will still have intrusive thoughts) and I question whether I have OCD or not, but I'm not necessarily having an anxiety/panic attack and other days might be more difficult to manage. I asked this question on a Youtube NOCD live session one time and the therapist that was talking on the live session said there is no right or wrong time to seek therapy. If you have questions, worries or doubts you won't lose anything by talking to a professional to gain more perspective on the next step you could take. It ultimately goes back to your decision. For me even when I feel calm I still remind myself of the important skills that I need to learn in order to manage my intrusive thoughts because at the end of the day I still struggle to manage them in general. Even if I feel calm, I can still learn how to manage my intrusive thoughts in throughout my life in general. I hope this helps. Wishing you the best.
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- 3y
Itās great that you donāt have that much anxiety. Iāve heard that itās hard for some people to adjust to the lack of anxiety and feel a void. Is that you? I donāt think thatās me but Iāve been really good about controlling my ocd and think about this to though. But when I do have phases anxiety I wish I had a therapist who already understood me, or think that maybe I wouldnāt have had that phase if I did have one. I decided even if itās weird at first Iām going to get one. Iām looking right now
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- 3y
My anxiety waxes and wanes. Ok, so currently I have a lot of obsessions and compulsions surrounding the fear of my mother dying, but these fears do not feel as terrifying and torturous as my Pure O obsessions
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- Date posted
- 3y
My anxiety has also tended to wax and wane and that kept me from seeking therapy for years. When it was really bad, I'd tell myself I would start as soon as the anxiety felt manageable enough to engage. But of course when that happened, I would feel like maybe I did not need therapy or was close to recovering on my own. I'm a few weeks into therapy now and, fwiw, I wish I would have started years ago.
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- 3y
Lately, my OCD has been telling me "You don't deserve to be in treatment because your OCD is moderate. You should quit and let someone whose symptoms are more severe take your place.
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- 24w
This is kind of a weird question, but I recently increased my SSRI dosage and have experienced tremendous relief. It has quieted my intrusive thoughts so much and my compulsions are no longer as all-consuming. However, I donāt want to be on this high of a dosage forever and know that medication alone shouldnāt be my only fix. Iām seeing a new psychiatrist on Wednesday and am wondering if the recent decrease in frequency of my symptoms will be a bar to my getting ocd treatment? In other words, if in this present moment Iām doing better, but up until a few days ago my compulsions were taking up pretty much every moment of my waking day, will I still be classified as having ocd? I start getting worried when I feel better that I donāt actually have ocd and just use it as a defense mechanism to avoid consequences of my actions/Iām secretly a terrible person
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- 19w
So Iāve noticed that my OCD has calmed down, Iām getting less intrusive thoughts but I feel more uncertain than ever. Is this normal for recovery?
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- 15w
Ok, so first of all, Iām undiagnosed. However, Iāve been pretty certain for a while now that what Iāve been struggling with is OCD. My problem though is that itās 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 donāt need a diagnosis to start healing and working on these things, but I also donāt want to be āself diagnosingā the problem, because that makes me feel like a liar and an imposter. My other problem is that I fear my family doctor wonāt 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 āOCDā section, we asked one or two very generic questions that had nothing to do with my themes, and since I couldnāt relate, I just answered no to them. He then told me I was fine, that I was just a ātype A personalityā, 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 wonāt experience any symptoms for years. This makes me feel like I donāt actually have OCD or that itās not ābadā enough to be diagnosable.
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