The following questions are related to ‘OCD’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I’m a 25-year-old Dutch female, and I’ve been suffering with what my psychiatrist called Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Hypochondriasis, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic attacks, and mild Depression for over a year now. I obsess over all of the symptoms that I have (along with many other things, like my love life, what the future [...]
Q: I have been diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The biggest obsessive thoughts I have involve a particular girl. I met her in 8th grade, and I became somewhat obsessed with her then (but never did anything because the thoughts I had I didn’t agree with). Now I’m going to be entering 11th grade, and [...]
Q: I have always known that I was different but haven’t been able to figure out exactly why. When I was in kindergarten, I wasn’t interested in other children. And even during the times I was interested, I didn’t know how to play with them. I also had some motor skills problems, so I wasn’t [...]
Q: I have come to believe that I suffer from some kind of disorder. I’ve thought it might be Asperger’s Disorder or perhaps Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I recently saw the film The Assassination of Richard Nixon, with Sean Penn. The film is about an unlucky, divorced man who gets obsessed with how rotten society is [...]
Q: I am a 22-year-old male and I’ve been going through a weird disorder of some kind that doesn’t seem to match the queries of others that I’ve found in this column. I’ve been in a good relationship with a girl for about 6 months. She seems a trustworthy person and has given me no [...]
Q: I was taking Prozac for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) for about 6 months. I was on a dose of 60 mg per day for about 3 months. However, I started having “brain shivers.” I have heard that such things can happen if you change your dose, but I wasn’t lowering my dose or raising it. [...]
Q: I am a 19-year-old male and I have been diagnosed with OCD and Major Depression. I’m not that convinced that medications (SSRIs, etc.) are the real answer because they probably don’t treat the “roots” of my problems. In a way, it seems like lying to myself to just take a pill to alleviate my [...]
