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Guest george0099

So i am going through fear of becoming gay, some people who suffer same thing can't leave their house, avodiding contact with other men, suicidal but not me , i am all opposite. So i would say there are diffrent types of ocd intensity.

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In no way is every case of OCD on the same level when it comes to severity. The most widely used severity test in the world is the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Severity Index or Y-BOCS Index.

Y-BOCS asks the sufferer to rate a number of questions on a scale of 1 to 5. Questions asked include how much time is spent on obsessions and compulsions, how much control the sufferer has over obsessions and compulsions and others. The scale is from 0 to 40. It is a tool used by mental healthcare professionals to help determine how severe a case of OCD they are dealing with.

By its very nature, Y-BOCS rates severity. In other words, there are less severe cases of OCD and there are more severe cases of OCD. It is a guide only and is quite subjective, depending on the responses of the sufferers completing the scale.

Overall the scale tries to determine how much affect OCD has over any one person's life. Some people experience mild symptoms. Others moderate. It has been calculated that about 50 per cent of all sufferers are in the severe category. Then there is extreme.

Even a moderate case of OCD can be life changing. It can have fairly profound effects on a person's ability to lead a normal life and have a good quality of life.

I should add that when I completed Y-BOCS I was rated in the extreme range of things, which really surprised me. I had no idea at the time how much OCD affected my life. That said, I have met people on this forum who I believe are in far worse shape than I used to be.

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Guest jayjay89

The other consideration is that after treatment your severity 'rating' will probably be reduced for some time and then you might have a relapse so it would go back up.

So PB, you could be moderate now and be seeing stories of severe sufferers. But if you had seen the same stories when you were severe possibly you would have seen yourself in their situations or been better or worse off.

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Guest lucylia

I thought OCD was OCD regardless of the theme?? Isn't that what OCD uk try to get through to us?? So there is no specific TYPE of OCD .... It's OCD and that's it???

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Unless you have had been through every type of ocd and every situation you surely cannot say some are worse than others are you all better are you specialists in the field now lol if so please share lol

Why would mental healthcare professionals the world over use a scale of severity to rate their clients if there was no difference in severity between OCD sufferers?

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The other consideration is that after treatment your severity 'rating' will probably be reduced for some time and then you might have a relapse so it would go back up.

So PB, you could be moderate now and be seeing stories of severe sufferers. But if you had seen the same stories when you were severe possibly you would have seen yourself in their situations or been better or worse off.

You know, you're quite wise Jay.

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I personally do not believe the type of OCD is relevant to severity, every type of OCD is a personal hell and nightmare to the individual. What does vary is the impact OCD can have on a person's life, which varies over time too, or the impact we allow OCD to have on our life (that's another debate).

But, that said regardless of the impact on our life with the right support, some work and maybe some good fortune there is no reason we can't all meet at the same junction, a place where OCD no longer impacts on our life.

So let's stop arguing over unhelpful points and let's all work out ways we can meet at that junction, a place called OCD Freedom.

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My therapist told me every type of ocd is just as severe but obviously you know best

For the third time (fourth counting Ashley's response), OCD severity has nothing to do with the type of OCD a person has. It has to do with the impact OCD has on a person's life.

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Guest lucylia

My old neighbour was diagnosed with "mild OCD" and given 2mg a day of setraline and a course of cbt to which she took to very well first time. From

Her own mouth as a fellow sufferer when I told her the impact OCD had on my life he was taken aback she said herself "my OCD wasn't quite that bad" .....

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