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Originally Posted by ItsTheTaste
@BlessedRhiannon: that's interesting to hear, that you were also very medication-aversive at first! But did you have an official OCD-diagnosis before you went to talk to that doctor? Cause I'm not sure whether I would dare walk into a psychiatrist's office and say "I pick my skin and I've self-diagnosed this as OCD. Now give me anxiety meds! *slaps handbag on table*"  Or is that how it goes?
And do you need to have other OCD symptoms as well, like locking and unlocking your door 5 times whenever you leave the house? (Hmmm I get the feeling I'm stuck with a rather prejudiced or untrue image of what OCD actually entails, though?)
Or do those meds also help for feeling anxious in general, like when you get verrrrry stressed out / scared / worried about tiny things, fret about them all the time and have huge amounts of stress? Because that's definitely something I do :-/ |
I did not have an "official" diagnosis of OCD when I went to see the psychiatrist. My therapist referred me and spoke with him before hand. During my initial appointment, we talked about what I'm dealing with and the severity. Honestly, in that first appointment, we focused more on the anxiety aspects more than anything else. He asked me lots of questions about when and how my anxiety manifests. I'd just met the man and wasn't able to say more than 'yes, I pick at my skin' and I didn't even bring it up, he asked me about it because my therapist had told him (I asked her to mention it as I knew I would struggle to bring it up).
In fact, I still don't have an official OCD diagnosis. Mine is generalized anxiety disorder. The OCD (for me) was a symptom of that anxiety. So, the medication I am on is for anxiety, with the added benefit that significantly reducing my anxiety made the need to pick at my skin significantly reduce as well.