- Username
- GingerMC
- Date posted
- 3y ago
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.
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
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
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.
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.
This is half a vent session, half me asking for advice but: My OCD symptoms started on april 2020, one month after the pandemic. that has led me to constantly question whether itās OCD or anxiety and of course i canāt really diagnose myself but it behaves very differently from anxiety. iāve also been doing research and reading about OCD for over a year and i honestly honestly think i have OCD because i fit basically all the symptoms? anyways, I finally brought it up to my therapist a few appointments ago and i felt like they kind of dismissed me? not sure if thatās normal. they told me itās could be because of heightened anxiety and to practice āthought stoppingā. that has made me feel sooo bad about myself because i start spiraling and believing my intrusive thoughts MUST be true because of what they said, and because it makes me feel like Iām just using the OCD label for āattentionā. iām not sure if i should bring it up again in a future appointment? or maybe find a new therapist? or maybe I donāt have OCD at all? I donāt know what to do
Can OCD calm down for no reason? Iāve always had pretty bad symptoms and itās usually quite overwhelming, but recently Iāve moved to uni and for some reason my symptoms are minor now, thereās still some there but I can cope with them? It seems like a good thing but at the same time I feel like Iāve been faking this whole time.
What should you do when OCD stops you from doing the things that you love the most, for instance, before OCD happened I used to be a huge fitness enthousiaste, going to the gym 4 times a week and now I can barely find the energy to do so, it's not the same how I was prior to OCD and I'm so scared that OCD would rob me of my life
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