Posted by bookgurl99 on June 11, 2003, at 21:58:05
In reply to Why am I so obsessed with a label?, posted by Dinah on May 30, 2003, at 8:51:34
i understand. yesterday i went to the pdoc, and he said that he's tentatively dxing me with OCD. i was taken aback, as i _did_ used to have ocd symptoms before my thyroid treatment that abated with treatment THREE years ago. i no longer have 'rituals', and while 'obsessive,' i'm more in the realm of normal (severe) anxiety.
i asked why the ocd dx, and he said because of what was in my history, not the present day. he also said that it was tentative.
it just really bothered me because my life was really horrid when i had ocd and a long-time partner left me over it. this happened in conjunction with several other bad things (got hit by a car,etc.) that further heightened my anxiety at the time. it was overall a nightmarish year that i would rather not repeat. just the label can conjure all that up for me. should i let the pdoc know this?
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your case also reminds me of before i was dx'd with complicated migraines. i had spells of confusion and feeling lost, but no explanation for it. so many tests were done. i knew it wasn't epilepsy; i knew it wasn't a stroke; i knew it wasn't m.s. like DID, on some level it's a dx of exclusion. i knew it wasn't a lot of things. but until i knew what it _was_, there was really no knowing how to treat it. maybe you just want to know what beast you're dealing with.
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