Anyone wanna help me with a little fact-checking? I had a horrible appointment with my family doctor today. She basically told me that my anxiety around my relationship and sex was not OCD, but a cry for help because I’m not in the right relationship. She said these things to me AFTER telling me she doesn’t know much about OCD and AFTER I told her I loved my fiancé and did not want to leave him. She pressured me to leave him to “find myself.” Honestly, she sounded like OCD personified. She also said that OCD is not an external force working against me, but a manifestation of thoughts and feelings I already have. Basically she said OCD is a way for me to express what I’m scared of feeling and that it’s a way to help me realize what I really feel. She said OCD doesn’t work against me from an external perspective, that it doesn’t “happen” to me and affect the way I feel and respond, but that it just brings those things to light. She said all that to say that my anxiety about my relationship with my fiancé and anxiety around my sexual orientation isn’t OCD, just anxiety because I’m in the wrong relationship and need to leave him. Any thoughts? The conversation truly sent me spiraling, and I will not be going back to her.

Listening to and trusting a family doctor's opinion on OCD is like listening to and trusting a podiatrist's opinion on a gynecological problem. They know NOTHING about things outside of their fields.

It would terrify me too. I am diagnosed as well but I am not so convinced that means it's true. What about your feelings about possibly be attracted towards the same sex makes you think that it's ocd and not the truth?

Family doctors are known to not be educated on ocd. If you don’t believe her then take what she said with a grain of salt

How do you claim to not know about OCD and proceed to speak about it???? Seems like she was trying to get to where your OCD started... But we all know it doesnt matter when it started just how deal with it in anoositive way (erp).... Also she dumb.... And kinda pisses me off you had to sit there and be lectured on your own mental disorder by that doctor... Goes to show having a degree doesnt always mean you know what you talking about that... But like you said shes ocd in living flesh and just like ocd no matter how much it picks at us and brings doubt we just let be there let it say what it wants and push through with all the strength you u have.

The absolute worst thing she could ever say…. She just doesn’t understand. I am so sorry you had this experience. I would spiral for sure.

Do you believe her? Did she bring up and objective points that would contradict you having OCD?

I went to a therapist for a long time that did not specialize in OCD. In retrospect, she was just doing her job, but a lot of the things she said sent me spiraling. She even said she could me my source for reassurance if that’s what I needed when it came to my ROCD. If you’ve learned anything about OCD, you’ll know that reassurance is what we actually need to AVOID! It just goes to show how little some therapists know about OCD. That being said, I don’t know if your therapist is right or not, and nothing anyone here can say will uncover the truth. But I definitely recommend looking for an OCD specialist or doing therapy through this app. I’ve been to a few therapists in my life, but my experience so far (about a month) with NOCD has been the best for my OCD brain. I finally feel a light at the end of the tunnel. Stay strong💜