OCD can be a really life wrecking illness. I think that is why some people wonder if they have something more going on. OCD is not really seen as severe mental illness and doesn't get the attention illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar do. But in fact, I think OCD is one of the worst mental illnesses there are.

OCD alone can interfere with every aspect of your life. The right therapy can sure help. A person who had a lot of OCD symptoms is always at risk of developing more symptoms, that is why it is so important to look for help again if one is slipping.

A lot of my OCD is gone, but it will never totally disappear. I still have a lot of OCD in my dreams when I sleep.

When I had the illness at its worst I wondered if I was psychotic. Because OCD is sort of the psychosis of feelings. Your feelings tell you things that are not true at all. What makes it not a psychosis is that you still know the feelings are incorrect. But after a long battle with those feelings, one can be so exhausted, that one almost get a tad feeling that maybe this is really true. But it is basically just the feelings being so intense leaving you really no room to breathe. So of course you will ask yourself why you have all those feelings if there is nothing to them. When you are really in the grip of the illness, you will obey the feelings, even if you know they are not telling the truth. So it causes a very confusing divide, that we do things we know we don't need to. But at the same time, we know we must do them.

I don't think any other mental illness has this divide this clearly. So sometimes when reasoning is weak because the intense brain fatigue from thinking about this always, we can feel like we're psychotic. But, no, we're not.