OCD - do you have it? I just took a test online

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and I think it is telling me that I have it.

It's here

I scored 82.

I recognised the behaviours as things I used to do much, much more seriously as a child and have since grown out of gradually but still carry on.

I think my answers when I was 9 or 11 would have been off the scale.

Also my mother had OCD and it was diagnosed - she isn't so bad now.

Is there a treatment or anything I can do about it? I am already waiting for some psychotherapy but have never addressed this issue before, it has always been about depression.

TIA

I scored 43. as didn't expect that score. Maybe there is something else wrong and not OCD.

It's funny because although my mother had it very badly, I believed it was as a result of a very abusive childhood.

However I had a pretty normal, if rather unhappy, childhood. Nowhere near what she went through. And I still seem to have it!

I don't know really RR. I know I have got better with age and learning to deal with things. I reckons a lot of it is from insecurity in childhood.

I am actually starting to feel quite angry now - that my obvious symptoms when I was at primary school were not dealt with better. it was a recognised condition back then and people should have done something to help, instead of telling me it was all my fault and I needed to sort myself out

I actually remember being really keen to see someone (like an edu psych) about it but when it came down to it, my mother didn't think I needed any help

I could really have done with some help actually! Maybe she was afraid I'd be labelled or something. I just wanted a reason for why I felt so blooming awful.

RR - it doesn't really tend to work as conveniently as that though (working to someone's advantage)- because of the anxiety levels involved in the OCD thoughts and rituals to counteract them.

It is possible to have subclinical OCD though, that doesn't affect your quality of life.