Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

Question

Can someone be so obsessed with the want for obsessive compulsive disorder that they convince themselves they really have it? And, if you convince yourself you really have OCD, would the doctor diagnose you as OCD? I mean, don't you just state your obsessions/compulsions, and the doctor compares it to the symptoms and diagnoses?

Answer 1

The obsessions of OCD usually have to do with contamination (or disease), disasterous events, personal transgressions (like, sin), that sort of thing.
The compulsions are the rituals that people with OCD use to keep the obsessions at bay.
What you're describing is really more akin to Factitious Disorder. Because the symptoms are only psychological, I suppose that there is no reason why a person couldn't fake or confabulate them, but they'd need a good knowledge of the condition to convince a mental health professional.

Answer 2

Hmmmmmm.... Sounds like a psychological hypochondriac. Maybe we call it "Psychochondriac". Obsessing by itself is not OCD and any half smart doctor would see right through it.