I have OCD. I want to share with you.?

Question

I have been a long time member of this community (Yahoo Q&A). I changed my nickname because I want this post to be completely anonymous and untraceable to my person. I am in my 20's and suffer from OCD. I am sure people like I have plenty of stories about their psychiatrists and therapists. I'll share one with you and hope you will share one with me.

My first therapist was a psycoanalyst who knew absolutely nothing about OCD. She saw everything as related to the penis and penetration. If you have had a psycoanalyst as a therapist you know what I am talking about. A particularly nasty symptom of OCD are the obsessions about homosexuality. You are bombarded with mental images of people of your same sex having homosexual sex with you, or you being sodomized, and are unable to turn it off and think of anything else. Your level of anxiety increases tenfold and you just want to off yourself. If you haven't been diagnosed, then you are not aware this is part of the disease and you may be

questioning your sexual preferences. When I began to tell my therapist about it, she quickly rose to the conclusion that I was gay and so she told me. I told her she was an *** and changed my therapist. My new therapist taught me that what I was experiencing was one of many symptoms of OCD. I do have so many of the other symptoms. I limited my post to only this one to point out that many people who seek for the services of a mental health professional have had encountered a "professional" who hurt you instead of helping you. I know many of you have been screwed by the person who you trusted with your mental health. I invite those who share my diagnosis to open up and share your stories about your experiences with bad professionals. Share with me and change your nickname if you must, I know how much we value our privacy.

For acomplete lists of symptoms, enter OCD in Wikipedia. I read the article and it is very accurate.

I wish Liar Liar reread my post and if she had any of the stories that I am asking for she would be as kind as to post one.

Answer 1

I have OCD too, but I don't have obsessions with homosexuality. Everyone has different obsessions. You don't necessarily have to have thoughts related to any certain subject. I worry obsessively over illnesses. Specifically cancer. But not about myself developing it, but my husband. I drive him insane with my crying and worrying and researching on the net whenever he has the slightest little anything crop up on his body! I worry that even a little scratch could be a sign of cancer growing! I ship him off to the doctors constantly for check-ups. I am very surprised he hasn't left me. I am a huge handful and not worth the air I breathe. So I understand what you're going through, and the SEVERE level of anxiety you mention. Unless you have OCD you have NO idea of the living hell it is! It's so severe in fact that the center of disease control rated OCD as one of the top 10 most disabling conditions to live with.


I agree.


One last thought.....
Why do you feel the need to be completely anonymous? As if OCD is so shameful that we must hide out and remain cloaked in darkness. I disagree. I am not ashamed of who I am. I didn't ask for this disease and it's not my fault if people don't understand what OCD is all about. If you ever want any serious help, you need to get out there and share your story with a caring psychiatrist!

Answer 2

- If I see the mirrored image of the vehicle in a window i've got have been given to work out 4 greater reflections until now i'm chuffed back. Makes applying down some streets extremely troublesome. - now and back once I force to artwork, i've got have been given to count extensive sort those little marker posts down the twin carriageway in 5's as they bypass the windscreen pillar. slightly risky at 80mph. - I do countless programming at artwork and each little thing interior the code ought to be coated up precisely. It has no effect on the code working, yet while a line dares pass i'm getting annoyed with it. i've got additionally spent hours readjusting indents as a sparkling line grew to become into too long. - some years in the past I used to do a piece wherein I had to blink 5x with my good eye, 5x left, 5x good and then repeat this with my palms. nonetheless no theory what it achieved. - uncertain if that's OCD, yet for twenty years i've got had left / good weeks which controls many stuff from which arm I bathe first to which shoe is going on first, to which section controls jogging or maybe which iPod earphone is going in first. I somewhat have tried to surrender, however the "people in my head" shop threatening me with a undesirable day if I do and that i'm afraid of having a undesirable day.

Answer 3

Obsessions with homosexuality is not a symptom shared by all people with OCD.

Recurrent unwanted thoughts are a symptom, what those thoughts are may include preoccupation for homosexuality for certain people with OCD but not all of them. Different people have different unwanted thoughts.

Yes, that's what psychoanalysts did. Fortunately, there aren't very many of them left anymore. It was an experimental form of treatment that was used before we had effective medications.

This "generic nickname" thing strikes me as a bit silly, but whatever works for you, fine.

Answer 4

Thank you for sharing.

I just don't understand what your sexuality got to do with your OCD.