[PhotoFreak123]

Okay, so here's the run down;
I'm 16 years old and was diagnosed with OCD and Tourette's in early-mid elementary school...can't even remember what age, but a long time ago. I have been to many therapists/psychs and taken numberous medications, to no avail.
I had just given up on finding any relief, and decided I was just going to have to live with it. I have gotten much better at hiding things and trying to act 'normal' so that most people only question my 'habits' or 'tics' irregularly. (And when they do I just deny it or say it's a habit and shrug it off or something. Hey, I've been saying that since 3rd grade. Why stop now?)
Anyways... I joined here a while ago... maybe a year?? A few months? Well, my OCD (Tourette's too???) was getting real bad, and I just wanted to find a good support place to talk to people with the same issues as me, and I was surprised to see that there were many. (I know OCD is a common issue, but I never considered myself a very typical-Obsessive-Compulsive person. I never do the hand-washing or cleaning rituals. More of the touching objects [even people], triple-checking things, stuff not "feeling right." Even as I'm typing this I have hit the backspace and space bar button way more times than I have needed to, haha.)

But I hadn't been on here in a while, since things have calmed down a tad (or maybe I'm just too busy to notice as much) But it's baaaack.
Of course. It always comes back raging.

Another thing that always confuses me to no end, is that i was diagnosed with OCD/Tourettes/Anxiety by multiple doctors, but I always told the doctors I didn't think I had Tourettes. They shrugged it off and said I did have it when I couldn't explain exactly WHY. I didn't really know how, I was what... 10 years old at the last evaluation?? Maybe 11?

When I was young I thought everyone had the same thoughts, same eye-blinking, same angering and frustrating things that popped into my head, and when I was told they were not "normal" I was embaressed and did not want to talk to some strange doctor about the thoughts that had been bottled up in my brain ever since I could remember.
So I have always wondered if they mis-diagnosed my Tourettes.
I have no doubt in my mind SOMETHING is wrong with me.. I just don't know what it is.
I think it's partial OCD... but still no one really understands my issues, even people WITH OCD.

So basically, my question here, is how am I supposed to get HELP for what's wrong with me, if I don't even know! (And I've already had multiple diagnoses, so should I/CAN I get another one???)
SORRY for the lot of writing.. I'm just trying to put out as much detail as possible. If you need more ask for it, and I'll try my best.

[KUREHA]

Hi,

Maybe see another doctor - see what they think.
My psychiatrist wants me to, but with him still there - just for like a fresh view.

It might be best if you can find someone that knows a lot about OCD - maybe the tourettes stuff is just an OCD thing.

I would see another doctor though

[PhotoFreak123]

Thanks. Yeah, the human brain is confusing. xP

[dancingbear]

OCD acting up, try having control. When you touch objects, think about it. Make a touch satisfing, slow your reaction down. Talk to your self about it, works for me. I'm
been doing this for forty years.

[dancingbear]

OCD acting up, try having control. When you touch objects, think about it.
Make touch satisfing, slow your reaction down. Talk to your self about it, works for me. I'm been doing this for forty years.