RYL Forums - View Single Post

sherlock holmes · 27-06-2015, 08:46 AM

Hi Rosie,

It's good you talked it over with your psychiatrist. I think in the meantime try not to get too worried about if it's OCD or not. The more you worry the more you may start to get convinced you have it.

With something like OCD and anxiety medication can be a helpful tool, but alongside it you really need some therapy like CBT which will challenge your negative and obsessive thoughts and give you ways to manage those thoughts without carry out compulsions, or developing compulsions.

Can you go back to your doctor and ask about therapy?

Even if you are in the early stages of developing OCD (or you may not be) it's so early that it can be treated quickly.

27-06-2015, 08:46 AM	#2
sherlock holmes do you like my potato? Join Date: Mar 2004	Hi Rosie, It's good you talked it over with your psychiatrist. I think in the meantime try not to get too worried about if it's OCD or not. The more you worry the more you may start to get convinced you have it. With something like OCD and anxiety medication can be a helpful tool, but alongside it you really need some therapy like CBT which will challenge your negative and obsessive thoughts and give you ways to manage those thoughts without carry out compulsions, or developing compulsions. Can you go back to your doctor and ask about therapy? Even if you are in the early stages of developing OCD (or you may not be) it's so early that it can be treated quickly.
	Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different… you once called your brain a hard drive, well say hello to the virus.