Status Updates From OCD: A Guide for the Newly ...

I had a job coach once who got mad at me because when I called out sick I didn't ALSO call her to tell her I'd called out sick.

Hated her

Yeah so the "negative coping mechanisms" section was literally just about substance abuse and then talked about comorbid conditions for a little bit for some reason

ADD is no longer a diagnosis

If his "unhealthy coping mechanisms" chapter only talks about substance abuse I'm going to lose my shit

He's describing OCPD instead of OCD again lads

Why is he now lecturing me about refined sugar 😭

This is really the most victim blamey self help book I've ever seen

Like fully blaming people with OCD for their symptoms it's kinda gross

It's very weird how much this book keeps talking about how to get an evaluation and how to seek treatment when its title calls it a guide for newly diagnosed people

Who presumably have already been evaluated and are seeing someone about their ocd. Because that's how you get diagnosed.

I don't think it's bad if a therapist is unwilling to prescribe you meds for ocd given that most therapists are not psychiatrists and thus cannot prescribe medication actually

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DO we do brain surgery for ocd?? That doesn't SOUND correct

Okay so we actually don't typically prescribe rispiridone for OCD. We don't even like to give rispiridone to people with active psychosis because it's so harsh on the body.

See calling Taboo OCD intrusive thoughts "normal intrusive thoughts that everyone has" doesn't ring true for me because if that were the case people without ocd wouldn't get to fucking freaked out when people with ocd talk about our taboo intrusive thoughts

Okay it is but it's a specific kind of CBT, specifically ERP

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Am like 90% sure that CBT is not the gold standard for OCD actually hold on

It's kinda weird that a guide aimed at newly diagnosed people is now talking as though the reader has yet to be diagnosed

Just a very weird definition of symptom thank you

This was published in 2012 so idk why he's citing papers from the 80s

Again, man, if I tell someone without ocd about my intrusive thoughts they say shit like "wow you're really fucked up" so I don't think they're that common or being misinterpreted as bad actually

Oh my gd it's still 2.3%

What the fuck

Hold on the paper he's citing is from 1988 let me see if there's updated numbers