Hi there. Suffered from OCD and anxiety for about 10 years...misdiagnosed before as depressed and given wrong meds (remeron). Finally found a dr who I think can help me and I start seeing her tomorrow.
I work full time in a stressful field, have a great 3 year old kid and a fiance who makes my OCD worse...markedly.
My OCD centers around contamination of food, locking doors and general phobia of food (opening it, if it spoiled or not refridgerated, if things are moved, etc). It makes it hard to function. My fiance is an idiot who leaves doors unlocked, gave himself food poisoning a few weeks ago and was basically dying for 48 hours...(that didnt help my fear of food!). If it werent for peanut butter sandwiches and oatmeal, I'd die. Oh, and luna bars.
Anyhow, I am happy to have found a group of people who can relate. From the posts I have read you all seem varied in your type of OCD but everyone seems to be in the same place - trying to find help, function, find answers and some comfort from people who can understand. I hope I can join your group as I start on this journey. I need to get this under control :(
yes ocd is a varried illness just like hair and skin tones.
i can relate to someone makin it worse, and yes it does get to a lvl where u can function, but like everything else in life its all about learnin how to change behaviour, key strateries and seems to b forever before it happens
mean while im glad u are reachin out to us and will wait to see what form yours takes, my daughter has a clean compulsion rather hard since shes got a four year old boy to make plenty of mess :D
domestic - thanks for the comment back. appt went well. I think this dr has her sh&t together. She seems to really get OCD. We meet again in 2 weeks to finish the intake an start on some exposure/challanges...we'll see.