Posted by Dinah on December 25, 2003, at 12:51:48
In reply to cyclothymic OCD anybody?/info on a newer article, posted by madison88 on December 24, 2003, at 23:46:01
Those are my two diagnoses, cyclothymia and OCD. But I haven't been able to pin down a correlation between the mood cycles and severity of OCD. have you noticed that there are certain moods where you have more trouble with OCD?
I *have* noticed that when I'm not really in touch with my feelings my OCD tends to flare up a lot more. And I'm almost positive (in the face of physiological evidence to the contrary, I'll admit) that OCD can be a defense mechanism against intolerable feelings. So that maybe people with mood disorders would be more likely to get OCD if they try to distance themselves from the bad feelings.
Just my own crackpot idea.
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