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Mar 02, 2009, 02:35 PM
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Member Since: Nov 2008
Location: in the glitch inside my brain
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Originally Posted by Locust
Berries, those are really good points, but I wanted to comment on one thing. You said, "And do you feel any compulsions along with the thoughts. Do you feel pressured to act on them? Do you act on them." Actually, while OCD does have compulsive right in the name, I have had intrusive obsessions without compulsions and my T said they were also part of my OCD. Also, I finally found an article online describing that very thing and those people also said it was a form of OCD, but they weren't professionals. Yet, they said many OCD sufferers online were complaining of this. I also had OCD with compulsions and the two got worse in unison and got better in unison.
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Oh YES, you can definitely have OCD and JUST have obsessions and obsessive thoughts and NOT have compulsions at all. Thank you for pointing that out.
What I said was misleading. I did not mean to imply that you had to have both.
I personally have both. But you can still have the DX and just have the thought part. Or you can have a combo, like me--some of my OCD is germ phobia which is both obsessing and compulsive stuff.---some of my OCD is just intrusive thoughts, but I have do not feel compelled to act on them. They are just distressing and I can't get them out of my head.
So, thank you for pointing that out. 
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