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Originally Posted by Crypts_Of_The_Mind
Wow... "Those of us on this forum"...
Am I now not a member of this forum bc I thanked you for your clarification? That is truly what I did. I asked you a question. You responded. I simplified your response and thanked you. You responded to that with something that comes off as sounding as though you somehow consider me less than you or maybe not wanting to help him.
Did you not notice I responded to him before you did?
There are in fact several reasons a person can have obsessive thinking apart from OCD, which was why I asked for clarification. There is also the possibility he used the word "obsession" but was not intending it in the way a psychologist would. I also asked because many on this forum do seem to try to diagnose others, without ever being asked nor having any previous background of the person nor even possessing a medical degree or knowledge to make said diagnosis. Making diagnosis under those circumstances I find both wrong in general and insulting to the person "given" the diagnosis.
I didn't want to accuse you without asking, and even after asking I didn't want to attack you ... but you came at me, so there you go, now you have your full response.
Oh, in case you are wondering....
PTSD
depression
anxiety
bipolar
Those are a few of the others that can have obsessive thinking as a symptom
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I did not come at you or attack you in any way. I interpreted your response to me as rude, but I still responded politely by explaining that my intention was to be helpful to the OP. I was only going by the language he used, and if that is not what he meant by the phrase "obsessive behaviors" then I would not have used the term OCD. I was not diagnosing him myself (as you still say I am doing); I thought that he was describing his own behaviors that way. I'm also not unfamiliar with diagnoses or medical terms (I have a PhD in the field) but I didn't even mention that because I didn't want to seem arrogant or to imply that I could diagnose someone over the internet (which I cannot). I just thought that since this is a psychotherapy forum, and he was using that terminology, that is what he was referring to. I was not attacking you or him. My only intention was to try and suggest something that *might* be helpful for the symptoms he was describing. I still don't understand why you are attacking my attempt to be helpful. Even if my suggestion wasn't helpful, it was made with good intentions and I cared enough to listen and to *try* to help.