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Guys, take it from someone who's recovered: keep looking for help, because a decent psychologist WILL help you a LOT.


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I realized like why you don't see people on this thread often who say they've gotten better. Like I used to have such bad OCD I'd want to kill myself often. But I finallyyyy like after years got help from a psychologist who was actually decent at treating OCD. And for some reason I started having this like natural seeming reaction not to check back on this forum, I don't know why, like I thought if I got better I would come back and give support, but I guess it just makes me sad to see people are still suffering from this and OCD is not extremely popular although it's pretty common like some psychologists don't even know how to treat it. But take it from me. I went through two psychologists who were just stupid no offence and made me angry - one was good but she pretty much gave up on me. Then a third psychologist I went to (technically, fourth, because I saw another one for one visit haha) was actually good at helping with OCD, and trust me, I got SOO much better. I also took medication. It's only been a few months so I'm still working on it of course, but it's really not black and white. Getting better with OCD can make you feel so much better that you can actually be happy (because the strength of your OCD symptoms is much smaller when your OCD is less). This is my advice:

keep looking for a psychologist

if your OCD is making you feel pretty much depressed, find a psychiatrist. even if you don't find a psychologist yet medication can make it a lot better. sometimes it takes a couple tries. for me my first medication ended up working for me.

Do it because I see the types of posts that usually seem to fill up the forum, and if you're on here, you need help, trust me. You deserve it a lot. Try to find help for yourself.

Also, if you want to talk or want to ask about my experiences, please just ask me anytime! :D I would love to help, or just talk about anything.

love,
svr

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ps: yes i did say "recovered" to get your attention but trust me, compared to how I was before I might as well be. it's not black and white. I'm happy* now. I can go out. do stuff. when I do have OCD symptoms they are mild in severity. I'm working on it of course, so it should get even better as I'm trying to make sure to find a job near my psychologist. I'm actually in a good place right now. (like metaphorically haha)

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I finally got help i needed from number 3 psycologist.i agree hang in there its hard,very hard but so worth it.just never knew what i had was ocd.think councellors should do a.course on what ocd is.once you know its ocd its 99℅ of the battle.spent years worrying i was spreading aids or disabilities.just never dreamed it was a condition.i actually got on councellor list initially for eating didorder.never dreamed of going to drs about stuff i just assumed was real.

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I agree with svr and ecomum.

i sacked my first private) therapist, even though he was an eminent CBT therapist and psychiatrist, because he was fixated on a process called "flooding" being right for me, and I was just as convinced that it wouldn't be.

My second therapist was good at the tea and sympathy, and this sympathy approach would eventually pull me out of episodes, but didn't tell me why my OCD worked like it did, or how i could influence it.

She left the practice and her replacement is brilliant. She is herself a recoveree from OCD - so, like our forum members, she had a real personal understanding of my problems, drew up a map of how my OCD works and manifests and maintains itself, and a relapse recovery blueprint.

So yes, if at first you don't find the right therapist, do try again.

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Absolutely agree. I've started CBT again recently and I'm very hopeful of my new therapist. She asked loads of questions and really seemed to get it. Then she came up with loads of ideas of how to tackle my OCD and set me several lots of homework. Compare that to my last therapist who just told me to look at a website.

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I don't know if brining up threads again is allowed here haha, but I just wanted to "bump" this one because I can't say this better. People who think they have OCD need to get help, and if someone they found doesn't help them, they should try again. And then if that happens again try again, because there ARE psychologists out there, in your area, who can help you. Some psychologist just don't know how to treat OCD which is very stupid because there are many people out there who suffer from OCD and it can be a real disability. Anyway, when I wrote this thread, I was better because I started seeing someone, but now I'm even* better haha. I'm still getting treatment with my psychologist, and my OCD symptoms bother me very little right now. Like 1% of what they did a year ago. I went from taking 4 hour showers once a week a year ago to probably half hour ones when I wrote this post to like 15-25 minute ones that don't even cause me distress, right now. Pleease search for help if you think you have OCD and it's making things hard. You don't have to take two hour showers to have OCD. OCD manifests itself in lots of different ways for different people.

Once again, if you want to talk or try to find out if you think you have OCD (which is probably YES if you already think so but I still can help you figure out why) please feel free to message me on here! :)

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