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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?
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?
