Sorry this is going to be a bit cryptic as I really don't want to be outed in RL...
I suffer depression/anxiety and had to spend some time on a ward a few years ago where OCD was mentioned but quickly dropped and never included in my diagnosis
If your still with me... Iv just read another thread on MN that struck me as spookily similar to what I experienced that time but that MN'er is diagnosed with OCD.
I'm just wondering if anyone can help me with what would make them decide I couldn't have OCD, what symptom/s would I have needed present or missing to avoid an OCD diagnosis?
It just would have made far more sense of what was happening if OCD had been the label... I was going along fine so everyone thought but then realised I had made a mistake (that was irrational/a non issue to everybody else) and fell apart to being completely devastated and not coping. When I say I made a mistake - I broke my own "rules" that id started living by for that period of my life.
I had completely obsessive thoughts for months, I couldn't even speak at the time other than briefly about having made this mistake.
I still secretly obsess over that mistake but the guilt isn't so consuming now I have the evidence in front of my eyes that it really was just all in my head that my mistake had ruined lives. And I definitely still regularly create "rules" that I have to keep for things to be OK...
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Why wasn't I diagnosed with OCD?
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Choochootrain1 · 21/08/2014 23:31
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