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Please refrain from using HOCD, ROCD and POCD acronyms.


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This interests me too as there does seem to be a blur between the two. Like you say, I think people with gad tend to worry a lot about things that are quite rational, so the degree of worry is unusual but the type of worry isn't. Whereas the type of ocd worry usually has an irrational element and an obsessive need for certainty which transcends normal worry. If that makes sense?

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I think there's so much overlap between all of them. OCD makes you very anxious, then you become anxious because your fear the anxiety, then someone develops social anxiety because they feel anxious.......Loverly Innit?

The thing is they're all anxiety conditions and the principles of treatment are very similar, CBT & ERP so you should try to use the methods for all types of anxiety. Also, when the OCD is under better control, the generalised anxiety tends to improve.

Maybe we shouldn't take on board all the different labels and just work at getting all anxiety under control

Caramoole :)

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I agree that the acronyms are unhelpful, also because they divide people with OCD into distinct groups and discourage us from relating to each other unless our OCD manifests in the same ways. For example, I have never quite believed that I really had OCD, or that my OCD was as important as other people's, partly because it hasn't fitted into one of the usual categories or 'flavours'. I find it hard to use the forums sometimes because I can't relate to fears of contamination or homosexuality, for example, but I keep telling myself, 'it's all OCD', and I would need others to do the same for me if my thoughts/behaviours didn't ring any bells for them...

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I googled what cbt stands for and got 98 different meanings from computer based training to critical business testing with one very naughty meaning in between.I'm only being awkward though.I think we all know what cbt should really mean.

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Guest busybee

This is so true. You can end up developing an obsession for something that same time last year you would never have thought you'd become obsessed with.

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I feel like I am not allowed to say pocd in this forum and makes me think I don't have a right to say what I want , iam a pocd suffere and I now leading a good life . It has never stopped me from getting better In fact it has helped me put it into place . If someone wishes and it helps them use pocd . Why take away that right , we should all have the freedom to choose how we label their ocd as it is personal to them . If someone doesn't understand that label , it is only a matter off googling or asking someone on here , it's really easy to find out .

Please can I have the right to choose my own label for my personal ocd

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I've been away from this forum for a while, this thread is a very welcome one. The propensity among some to 'label' their disorder is invariably counter productive. Re the poster above - perhaps in your case labeling the disorder has helped, I have to assume you know your situation, but for many it's a floundering hindrance.

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Guest legend

glad you are better fee x. On your suggestion I googled pocd and it came up with a multi-tude of answers

which reiterates the original post

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I have certainly experienced OCD operating in the way Admin describes. At one time it is contamination at another it is excessive feelings for responsibility;even the contamination is connected with excessive responsibility so that one feels one needs to die in order to become a non-contaminant! I'm sure there is a COMMON root to OCD in the brain , maybe an early trauma that creates the opening for OCD.

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I too dislike the added acronyms. It seems many people use them to describe their own symptoms as if they have a totally different disorder. I've seen posters ask for specific help for this ocd or that ocd, when it's all ocd.

HOCD really gets me. It stands for 'homosexual ocd' (which ocd-uk uses). It's not about homosexuality. A homosexual can just as easily have intrusive thoughts about being straight. It should be renamed OCD with sexual orientation obsessions.

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I understand both sides,i can see how it could be an obsticle as you are just concentrating on one theme,and as we all know a theme can change in a day,however there is a comfort in knowing someones dealing with the same theme as you dont feel isolated.

Also different themes have different pressures from we perceave the outside world perseaves of us,a homasexual for instance is thankfully accepted in many parts of the world wereas an active pedephile is not accepted anywere and nor should they be,so although the pain and structure of ocd is the same the ways to deal with it differ subtly,for instance exposure therapy for hocd would have to be approached in a different angle to pocd for obvious reasons,therefore I could see how someone could want advice from someone on the same channel for their recovery.

As for the original post,it seemed written with quite a bit of anger,personaly if someone wants to write it so what,it realy doesnt bother me or affect my recovery in a negative way atall

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Guest chitownkid

am I allowed to actually be specific and say harm ocd, relationship ocd etc instead of the acronyms? sorry im new.

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Guest legend

am I allowed to actually be specific and say harm ocd, relationship ocd etc instead of the acronyms? sorry im new.

no probs with that , and hi from me :)

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Just glancing at the thread directly below this - it doesn't seem to be working! I do agree totally about the use of acronyms, but it appears to be a losing battle...

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I have apologied as soon as I saw the thread above and explained I never intended to offend anyone! Before I came on the forum I had never heard of any of them but soon learned and began to use them. Apologies once more and I won't do it again!!

No apology needed at all. The acronyms themselves are not offensive, but it is our belief that they can be unhelpful to use for several reasons, one example partly why I re-pinned the thread is last week someone emailed to ask if I could help them find a specialist in ROCD because they had been struggling to find someone for a long time, which of course they would as there is no such thing. So really had they searched for an OCD specialist chances are they would have found someone and their treatment could well already be happening, not delayed because of acronym use.

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Hi Ashley

Very useful thread indeed. The specifications are rather useless. I have only been aware of my ocd for about two years now. But over the years I have had many many obsessions about all sorts of things. It's always OCD, only the topic changes.

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I would like to repeat what I said earlier in the thread.

In my business acronyms could only be used if earlier on in a document their full meaning had immediately followed their use e.g. in brackets afterwards.

I think people fall behind their use as they don't want to spell out the full name of the genre as they are uncomfortable with their theme.

If the mods say don't use it then we must follow.

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Guest eden1616

i agree with taurean i think acronyms could be ok if used on a post so that the person doesnt have to type out the full name of the theme

eg. i am having problems with ocd around my relationship which for this post i will now refer to as ROCD and only for this post so that i dont have to type the whole thing.

i think that sort of thing is ok but it isnt my decision.

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