Posted by Jack Smith on May 16, 2003, at 16:35:18
In reply to Re: ARE YOU MY DOPPELGANGER?, posted by mills on May 16, 2003, at 14:25:19
> And, it's the "magnet" that pulls/compels my attention inward, the nagging, vague gnawing that demands my attention. Is that like yours? And have you felt like you didn't fit in because you couldn't show a "ritual" (i.e. compulsion) or an "intrusive thought" (e.g. "Oh No!! I think I ran over somebody!!, etc.) (i.e. "obsession")? It's been very frustrating to me not to be able to identify, much less "label", what is obviously a disorder of some kind.
I have never thought of myself as having OCD, and I still don't think I would fit into that category, specifically because I don't have any sort of ritualistic behavior.
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> So, the benzos help you? Is yours like a "feeling" of a "compulsion?" My problem is the compulsive urge itself, and I don't really have a choice of whether to look within or not; I've got to, i.e. what I think of as a "compulsion" in the first place, right?
>Same here. Just sort of the compulsive feeling of what's wrong with me? And it manifests itself in a tightness in my chest, etc.
> You and Matt are the only two people I have ever met that could even relate to this type of OCD. What do you say when people ask you what you have or what are you taking meds for, etc.? I say now an "anxiety disorder" but I even feel weird saying that.
Benzos definitely help me but I have never taken them long term. Though I am considering that. But I also clearly have classic signs of depression, mostly atypical symptoms--oversleeping, rejection sensitivity but no overeating.
The label I have always gone with is depression and GAD, I am surprised you were diagnosed with OCD and not GAD. It doesn't really matter what someone calls it because the treatments really overlap and what works for some doesn't work for others.
JACK
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