Prove your OCD?

worried · Newbie User Joined: Mar 17, 2007 Posts: 1

I have suffered with severe OCD since childhood. I have been on clomipramine for the last ten years plus. My psychiatrist is wonderful. She is very supportive and helpful. I have a support worker who is also very good. I live on my own so I am glad to see her twice a week.

I have recently had a visit from an Occupational Therapist whom I had discussed with my psych that might be helpful for me coping coping with day to day tasks.

However, I was a bit taken aback with the OT (who I had never ever met before). She said right, I want you to prove to me that you have OCD. I told her that I have had it since childhood; my father had it and my grandfather. And that I was first clinically diagnosed in 1995 and then again in 2005 by two different pyschiartrists. And that I have been on medication for more than ten years. And that I also have a support worker on the reccomendation of my psyc. She said that maybe so, but I want you to prove that you have OCD to me. I told her that if she visited me daily and stayed for an hour or so she could observe me (even though it is stressful for me). She replied that she has not got neither the time nor the resources to visit me everyday. I thought to myself, I do not know how else that I am going to 'prove' it to her?

I have never been asked to prove my OCD before. I rang up my psych and she said that she knows nothing about it.

What do you people think?

midge · Newbie User Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Posts: 3

GEt rid of him/her. An OT is not knowledgeable about OCD. She had no right to say that to you. My daughter is going to school for Physical Therapy. She wouldn't have any expertise in a physcological area like this either. Who does she think she is?

saraz · Newbie User Joined: Apr 04, 2007 Posts: 8

I think she was trying to help. Perhaps she thought that by thinking about how to prove it that you would find the reason and therefore cure it. I don't think she was being unkind, just trying something that could possibly help.

Wonder · Newbie User Joined: Aug 18, 2007 Posts: 2

Hmmm... Maybe she was trying to help although scare tactics I don't think are very helpful... That thought will now come back to you, Which you probably don't need very much at all...

DietofWorms · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:53 am Post subject:

I think she was trying to help. However, I don't think she is very knowledgeable about OCD since she didn't seem to understand the kind of stress that kind of a question could cause an OCD sufferer.

My advice it to try to get someone else, but please don't feel obligated to.

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