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Ocd help

EuanF

Does anyone have any experience with OCD?

I've never really been very well informed about it but recently when reading up I have resonated with a lot of the OCD experience. I spoke with my therapist about it and he agrees a lot of the way I talk and describe the thoughts I have could suggest I have OCD. I can't really see many physical compulsions in my past or current behaviour but I can definitely recognise mental "checking" and compulsions, though not really sure if it's a compulsion. 

However, I keep doubting this (though I know doubt is often a part of ocd) I just always thought I was an anxious person and my experience was anxiety. I feel like I jsut think I might have OCD as an excuse for something? But maybe not. It's all so confusing and to be honest really scary.

Any advice people could give would be appreciated, even if it's just m your own experience with it.

 Thanks. 

  • in reply to Ben

    This is the trouble with medication, I hate being on it, but know that I need to order to function so I try and figure out (with my dr) which meds needs to take a preference! For me, medication has really helped some of the obsessive compulsions, I know that it wouldn’t be the same for everyone. 

    i think a lot of people go through so many diagnosis before hitting the right one for us. I’ve had so many that never fitted quite right, and ended up with a right cocktail of medication that didn’t work and then caused addiction issues. 

    yes.. I love that, I’m so much more aware of assumptions people make nowadays as I guess it affects me more now. I try my best to be really aware of this, to be understanding to others and how things affect them differently, but for sure could do better. 

    have a good day :) 

  • in reply to Sloan

    Sloan, I'm sorry to read of your OCD, it sounds much worse than mine. I have not sought medication as I am already on meds for another, completely unrelated (organic) condition, and don't want more if I can help it.

    For the decades before I was diagnosed ASC (aged 67), I was given a variety of anxiety disorder diagnoses culminating with GAD. During this time I had to deal with three 'addiction by prescription' situations...and I don't wish for a fourth.

    You are right that the general public make assumptions re OCD, just as they do about most conditions. We must learn from that and try not to make the same assumptions ourselves.  Just because something sounds familiar, it does NOT mean we are an expert on it. We are better than that.

    Ben

  • Euan, when I leave the house I have to check all the windows and doors are closed and locked, repeatedly. Also I have to check all the taps are turned off tightly, repeatedly...  I then check electrical items are unplugged, repeatedly.

    I have missed more buses and trains than you would believe.

    Ben

  • I have OCD. Massively struggle with it. I get a lot of obsessive thoughts and overthinking, as well as strict routines, counting things etc. it dominates a massive part of my life, although at time I struggle to see where the OCD ends and the autism starts. 

    I was diagnosed by my psychiatrist, is this perhaps something you could ask your therapist to be referred for? Just so you know one way or another. 

    I have mediation for my OCD, which has massively helped, so I think a formal diagnoses does open up things like that? Obviously I know that doesn’t work for some people and also some people are not interested in meds. But I think a diagnosis helps you figure things out more. 

    I think just like autism people have massive assumptions about OCD. I constantly hear people using their cleanliness as “a touch of OCD” or saying that they have OCD when actually they just hoover everyday. OCD massively impacts me, and it dominates my life in so many ways, I wish it was just that I liked to clean daily!