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OCD

The-red-centaurSenior Contributor

OCD

So today my psychiatrist diagnosed me with OCD. No longer saying my primary diagnosis is bpd and DID. Um. Idk what to say. I feel weird.

I know I'm the same person. But all my life they've labelled me as borderline and though I never agreed with it, it all they ever said about me. OCD makes sense, I thought that years ago but no one listened then.

My obsession and compulsions aren't what people think as normally an ocd thing but it's ruined my life. I have no life.

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KrishnaSenior Contributor

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@The-red-centaur ❤️ Hope you’re okay this evening. This new diagnosis must have sent you off kilter a tad but maybe see it as a starting point to make a new life for yourself, like reinvent.

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tymeModerator

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Hi @The-red-centaur ,

I'm hearing you. I have BPD and I had OCD as a young person. I have to say that neither is necessarily a life sentence.

As someone who has been on the brink of death many times, suffered from crippling anxiety and depression, I'm still here to tell the story.

Don't let a label dictate your life. Use it to get the support you need, then run with it to embrace the world before you.

I've done it, and I trust others can too.

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ArraDreamingSenior Contributor

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