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OCD
hi im 16/f & i have mild ocd. i wouldn't say its too extreme. i have to count things, touch things a certain number of times, do rituals, fix things, etc. i'm not sure what to do exactly. my parents offered taking me to a doctor but i don't think they'd understand. i'm really not that bad, but idk i have to do certain rituals, the same every day. i feel anxious of i don't do them or worried that something will go wrong. does anyone have OCD or know anything about the doctors?? i just want extra information & what they did or just good suggestions/ideas.
thanks!!
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The best thing to do is go to a doctor, they will also probably be able to give you some info on support groups so you can exchange info and experiences on how to cope
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i've been diagnosed with depression, anxiety disorder, & three different types of ocd. i'm a mess. lol. anyway...i went to a psychiatrist & got counseled for three days. he did such things as described below with the desk. on the third day he prescribed me medicine for anxiety/ocd. it helps tremedously. if you're really bothered by your ocd i recommend going to a psychiatrist. they can really help a lot. [:
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You should deff. go to a doctor. My junior year i did my paper of OCD and any case of OCD can get alot worse. You want to treat it before it gets uncontrollable.
The doctors will
example: Say you have to touch the right corner of a desk 10 times before you can leave a room or you feel wierd. The doctor will put a desk in a room and he will not let you touch the desk.
I know it sounds like something that you have no interest in doing because hes not going to let you do what you want to do but it will make you feel alot better.
hope this helps
kim:)
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i would go to the doctors.. what seems mild to you may turn into something major and require alot of help if you don't do something now.
Also the anxiety may be caused my depression that often goes along with ocd.. i would say better safe than sorry
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One of the treatments is what they call a behavior treatment. How does it work? Well lets say that if you closed a door for example, one ritual could be that you would have to go back to check it was closed or locked. Well in the behavior treatment they let you close the door, but they make you walk away without checking. That is just a rough sketch of how they could help you (over time).
Basically once you are exposed to the anxiety of not doing the rituals or anything else over and over and over and over and over again, you psychologically start to realize that you can overcome it. It's almost like your mind/body says 'hey I didn't do it but that wasn't so bad after all'. In most cases the anxiety and OCD of having to perform the rituals and have things a certain way will lessen and diminish. I would consult a doctor, they are trained to deal with this. Don't be afraid - it's what drives OCD the most. Hope that helped and good luck.
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If you want to overcome it, then force yourself to stop. I know alot about OCD and how hard it is to cope with if you have it bad enough. Whenever you wake up in the morning don't do what you normally do. No matter how hard it is. Just make yourself do different things each day. If you go to a doctor they're going to do the same thing. Say you're afraid of needles because of it. Well they might make you touch one or hold one. Get it? Whatever you can't do or have to do it everyday.. work around it and train yourself not to. It'll be hard at first but you're the only one that can make yourself do it if you really want to! And then again you might not be able to fix it depending the level of your OCD but you can always try new things.
=] Evy
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