low insight ocd
Question:
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 18:27:19 -0500, yuckfou wrote: > I wonder if anyone here have been wronfully diagnoses with schizophrenia > or other thought disorder, because they seem to lack insight to their > ocd obsessions. Ive experienced this several times, but I think I only > have ocd, since I for instance never heard woices. I used to talk to > myself outloud but that was more of a defence to distance myself from > instrusive sickening thoughts. Anyone got any experience with this?
Yes, I have had a situation like that. I have the "pure obsessional" type of OCD.It took me many years to get to that diagnosis, which, by the way, fits well. When I was in my early twenties, I was seeing an outpatient counselor and I saw a paper on her desk referring to me as a schizophrenic. In the early nineties, I saw a psychologist who declared that I had "schizo-typal" thoughts. In 1994, I was seeing another psychologist who diagnosed me correctly, and my life has improved 200 percent since that diagnosis, behavioral therapy, and Zoloft. I think it is common for OCDers to be misdiagnosed, especially years ago, when there was relatively little knowledge about OCD.
Response:
Tell me about it. I wonder sometimes if my OCD is really just some kind of coverup for something more deeply wrong. "Lain" <l…@wired.net> wrote in message
news:rQ24a.10878$863.34736@news-server.bigpond.net.au… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I too wonder where OCD stops and becomes something worse… > Lain > "yuckfou" <yuck…@start.no> wrote in message > news:5ddbfa45.0302161527.11983e71@posting.google.com… > > I wonder if anyone here have been wronfully diagnoses with schizophrenia > > or other thought disorder, because they seem to lack insight to their > > ocd obsessions. Ive experienced this several times, but I think > > I only have ocd, since I for instance never heard woices. I used to > > talk to myself outloud but that was more of a defence to distance > > myself from instrusive sickening thoughts. Anyone got any experience with > > this?
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I too wonder where OCD stops and becomes something worse… Lain "yuckfou" <yuck…@start.no> wrote in message
news:5ddbfa45.0302161527.11983e71@posting.google.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I wonder if anyone here have been wronfully diagnoses with schizophrenia > or other thought disorder, because they seem to lack insight to their > ocd obsessions. Ive experienced this several times, but I think > I only have ocd, since I for instance never heard woices. I used to > talk to myself outloud but that was more of a defence to distance > myself from instrusive sickening thoughts. Anyone got any experience with > this?
Response:
I wonder if anyone here have been wronfully diagnoses with schizophrenia or other thought disorder, because they seem to lack insight to their ocd obsessions. Ive experienced this several times, but I think I only have ocd, since I for instance never heard woices. I used to talk to myself outloud but that was more of a defence to distance myself from instrusive sickening thoughts. Anyone got any experience with this?
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