Getting an adult diagnosis for OCD

[Mindovermatter45]

Hi,

Does anyone know if a GP is going to be easy to deal with when it comes to getting a formal diagnosis of OCD as an adult?
My next of kin is unavoidably coming with me to an appointment for something else at the doctors surgery and I just fear they will try and bring up the ocd as they suspect I have this after talking to a distant relative.

I just struggle to let go of something bad that happened recently. It's a situation I try to understand there may never be any answers but giving me obtrusive/obstructive thoughts which I need to stop. The surgery before now have been reluctant to give anti depressants.

The GP didn’t diagnose me. I had (several!) MH problems, was already on AD and beta blockers, and was referred to psychiatry. I was diagnosed there as OCD.

Honestly, if could be hard. Even with a referral to psychology and regular therapy session through the NHS my sister still didn’t get a diagnosis. She saw a private psychiatrist in the end as she never believed she had ocd (a typical ocd trait not believing things are real) and the NHS were not interested in diagnosing her as she was being treated anyway.

Ah, thank you I did see a counsellor privately this morning who thinks it could be anxiety to be fair I was last treated for this in 2019. I don't know that I'm holding out much hope with the GP.

You need a psychiatry referral. Psychologists and counsellors do not diagnose.