Posted by Racer on October 25, 2005, at 23:06:59
In reply to is hearing voices only a symptom of ocd, posted by chand2407 on October 25, 2005, at 20:47:16
The way you've described them in your other posts on this subject, though, makes them sound less like voices, and more like intrusive thoughts. Those are probably related to something on the anxiety spectrum, or depression with psychotic features.
No one here can tell you your diagnosis. Only a trained professional who sees you face to face, generally over a couple of sessions, can tell you what your diagnosis is. Have you asked your doctor?
OCD is generally made up of obsessions and compulsions -- hence the name. ;-) The obsessions might be something like, "I'm going to put my eye out somehow." The compulsions are ways to reduce the anxiety that obsession creates, a sort of magical ritual to avoid that coming true. Another example would be checking the coffee pot a certain number of times before you can leave the house, because otherwise there's a chance the house will burn down. That really doesn't sound like what you're experiencing, does it? (Obviously, this is very simplified. One of my OC symptoms was cleaning the bathroom floor -- I had to get EVERY speck of dirt off of it, including the stuff that was caught in little crevices. I dang near scrubbed off the entire design. That wasn't to avert catastrophe, but I had this overwhelming dread around getting the bathrooms clean. Just no specifics about what would happen if I didn't, beyond me being a terrible person who wasn't even clean enough to be in polite society.)
I'm going to suggest -- strongly -- that you look up the criteria listings for OCD, panic disorder, anxiety disorders of various kinds, psychosis, and depression. There are a number of sites that have that sort of thing, the criteria are contained in a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Or, as we all know it and as google will recognize it, DSM-IV. Read over those criteria, and see what you think. Here's a link to one place that you can get some good information:
http://www.mentalhealth.com/whnjs.htmAlso, you've asked a lot of questions here that are pretty similar. While it's great to ask questions of others, remember to do some research on your own. While I like to think that I'm offering up brilliant wisdom, it might just as easily be total nonsense. Don't believe everything you read, here or anywhere. Just a reminder...
Good luck.
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