What causes OCD

[seajoy]

This is just my opinion, but i believe it is inherited. Alot of people (almost all) have anxiety disorders in my family. My mother has a form of OCD (where she is afraid she'll get sick) mine is contamination, cleaning, religious...

What you have said should help you to know you have an illness. You and God are fine.

 

[keryakos]

i think so too i want to ask a fair question without debating over it



SEA JOY


How did your dr. know for a certainty that you had OCD that is beyond the diagnostic manual they use . H0w did they actually know its a fair question

 

[seajoy]

i think so too i want to ask a fair question without debating over it



SEA JOY


How did your dr. know for a certainty that you had OCD that is beyond the diagnostic manual they use . H0w did they actually know its a fair question

Doctors look at symptoms....I had all the classic ones. Then they used the treatment for this illness and I got better. It's how I know it was ocd.

 

[Caty]

my dr really never said, you have ocd....she said "you clearly have some of the symptoms." so does that mean i officially have it??

 

[seajoy]

my dr really never said, you have ocd....she said "you clearly have some of the symptoms." so does that mean i officially have it??

It means you need to go back to that doctor and say you would like a diagnosis one way or the other..or get a different doctor to re-evaluate you. When a person is young, doctors don't always speak to you as they should, and if you don't ask questions, they think you have understood everything they said. Go back and ask more questions. You deserve an answer.

I am not a doctor - but you sound like a true ocd'er to me. Takes one to know one, as they say.

God bless.

 

[Caty]

im afraid to ask because i fear that i dont have it, and as long as i believe i have it a part of me says everything is okay, but if i find out i dont have it then i dont know what ill do?

 

[seajoy]

im afraid to ask because i fear that i dont have it, and as long as i believe i have it a part of me says everything is okay, but if i find out i dont have it then i dont know what ill do?

I'm so confident that you have ocd, I have no problem telling you to seek help from a doctor, because you have very classic symptoms.

The reason I know is because no amount of reassurance is helping you....or it helps for only a short time. Don't be afraid....God does not want us to live in a state of fear, but of confidence in our salvation. I know you are ok with God. I can tell that you love Him dearly. The Lord is the author and finisher of your faith. He chose you long ago. He knew you would be part of His Kingdom from the beginning of time.

 

[keryakos]

Doctors look at symptoms....I had all the classic ones. Then they used the treatment for this illness and I got better. It's how I know it was ocd.[/quote



yet not all recover wouldthat mean they did
nothave it

 

[seajoy]

yet not all recover wouldthat mean they did
nothave it

Not all choose to do traditional therapy for ocd, so yes, they could still have ocd and never recover.

 

[kaykay9.0]

my dr really never said, you have ocd....she said "you clearly have some of the symptoms." so does that mean i officially have it??

It means you need to go back to that doctor and say you would like a diagnosis one way or the other..or get a different doctor to re-evaluate you. When a person is young, doctors don't always speak to you as they should, and if you don't ask questions, they think you have understood everything they said. Go back and ask more questions. You deserve an answer.

I am not a doctor - but you sound like a true ocd'er to me. Takes one to know one, as they say.

God bless.

Yes, as I have said before on here, my psychiatrist said that in his opinion, OCD symptoms tended to be on a spectrum from very mild to very severe.

My particular psychiatrist said he understood religious OCD because he had seen it specifically manifested in his cousin.

 

[Savedsis]

my dr really never said, you have ocd....she said "you clearly have some of the symptoms." so does that mean i officially have it??

I wonder the same thing ctay...I know I have some of the symptoms, I have never talked to my doctor about it..

 

[SoldierOfSoul]

I wonder the same thing ctay...I know I have some of the symptoms, I have never talked to my doctor about it..

I have never been to a doctor about it, but I know that the obsessive compulsions I have are not what normal people do.

 

[Savedsis]

I diagnosed myself...

 

[annrobert]

Could OCD ever have a spiritual side to it?

 

[keryakos]

Could OCD ever have a spiritual side to it?

I think it could Ann but it is anathema to some even suggest such a thing
The reason being that it is believed to be simply a biological disease which requires biological treatment ..

There was a man who experienced heart failure he went to his Doctor an MD who discovered that the man had just lost his wife . the dr did not give him pills he gave him alternative therapies ..the man recovered ..

Now what he was experiencing was very biological ..it was a tested and confirmed illness that would likely have killed him .. but he didnt need drugs
he needed compassion , and an alternative approach ..which may have saved his life ..

 

[annrobert]

I think in some cases ocd may have a spiritual side to it as well.Or the devil may take advantage of some people who have it.

Now what he was experiencing was very biological ..it was a tested and confirmed illness that would likely have killed him .. but he didnt need drugs
he needed compassion , and an alternative approach ..which may have saved his life ..

This is a very good example here.Love conquers all.

 

[Caty]

i guess i kinda diagnosed myself also, i used to have the whole "touching things" & now I worry myself sick over religious things & what people think of me.