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A Few Words about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

A Few Words about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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Robert Lindsay
Jul 02, 2024
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As a peer counselor I worked with countless people with OCD for years. People came from all over the world to work with me. There was one obvious thing about any of them, even those who were really out there and I had a hard time diagnosing.

That was that they were painfully aware of how nuts they are, and they thought the symptoms were ridiculous and preposterous, but they still couldn’t shut them off.

It’s as if there was something in their head that was trying to force them to think and believe odd things or in many cases, trying to force them to believe the worst possible thing.

They were also quite desperate to get better. Sadly, all people with a psychosis have no idea that they are nuts, and they typically refuse all efforts to medicate them because they can’t see anything wrong with themselves.

That’s because when you are truly nuts, you think there’s nothing wrong with you! he problem is that when OCD is bad, people who have it appear psychotic. Emphasis on appear. But they’r…

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