"I got a diagnosis for anxiety recently and I'm convinced it's wrong. I've been so concerned that I'm not anxious enough, I've been looking up the condition over and over: blogs, forums, youtube, you name it. I feel like maybe I focused on the wrong things or I exaggerated, because I don't experience the physical symptoms of anxiety, I'm just a bit of a worrier. I went to the doctors' with a kind of self-diagnosed OCD"
If I'm understanding you correctly, you are saying that you think you have OCD because your anxiety is not severe. Is this what you were trying to say?
I can tell you from personal experience that OCD sufferers experience severe anxiety just like a person with Generalized Anxiety Disorder would. The severity of the anxiety should not be a tool to distinguish one from the other.
Have you heard of Somatic Symptom Disorder? Please research it. And you may just have an obsessive personality -- FOR NOW. Bad brain habits can manifest an obsessive personality into full-blown OCD. Also, it is not good to obsess over and look too much into disorders, especially one such as OCD. Leonardo DiCaprio has OCD now after he played a character in a movie who had it. He researched it for months on end which had something to do with it along with repeating obsessive behaviors for the movie.
I would listen to your doctor's diagnosis and let him worry about the fancy titles. Just let him know what hinders you as a person, and he can help you create a plan to be the best version of yourself. If deep down you don't have faith in your doctor, find a new one.
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