[Khione]

My therapist isn't qualified to diagnose me but she can easily put me in touch with my psychiatrist.

She's mentioned OCD before but never fully and the symptoms that prompted her to mention it before, have gotten so much worse.

How can I bring it up to her again? I feel like I can't just say "my OCD stuff is back again". I've not been diagnosed, she just mentioned it and I really don't want to seem like I'm self-diagnosing.

[Nike007]

Hello. I just was recently diagnosed with OCD a month ago. What I did was just bring it up with my pdoc, but she knows I know a lot things about mental illness and stuff, but. Anyways, if you aren't comfortable, then when your therapist asks how are you, if they do, I would say that I have been thinking intrusive thoughts as an example a lot lately. Or at the beginning of the appointment, remind your therapist of the time when she mentioned OCD before. I do that sometimes too. Anyways, maybe my psychiatrist thinks I am self-diagnosing myself, but I find it that the more I am telling them what I am experiencing, the more that gets noticed and treated. Why not bring it up to your therapist when all it is going to do is either be pushed to the side or something will actually happen. I have told my pdoc about anything anxiety-related, but not depression-related so my pdoc doesn't know that I get depressive episodes and I get really depressed in the winter just because I don't tell her. I wish you luck though .

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[coyotee]

I was really worried about telling my psychologist about my OCD. I DID self diagnose, because it felt like an absolute match. So the first day, I told him I thought I had it and it went from there. I was nervous too, but I think he was pretty receptive to the fact that I understood my own issue. From there we worked on it.

I'm seeing a psychiatrist now, and for whatever reason I didn't talk about the OCD from day one. I just kind of talked about the anxiety part of it. I just recently mentioned I was getting stressed specifically from the OCD. He was sort of surprised I didn't talk about it before but it really wasn't a big deal.

If you need to talk about it. If you think talking about it/ working through it will help you -- Go for it. Get it off your chest. One less thing to stress about.