#WellnessWednesday: I'm looking for an OCD therapist but can't find the right one?

[BethIOCDF]

People with OCD often get the wrong initial diagnosis from mental health professionals and may wind up seeing many doctors and therapists over the course of several years before finally getting the right diagnosis. so here are some five (5) simple questions you can ask when looking for an OCD therapist?

1. What techniques do you use to treat OCD?

2. What is your training and background in treating OCD?

3. How much of your practice currently involves OCD?

4. Do you include families in any of the treatment?

5. Do you have experience treating people who look/identify like me?

Do you have any tips on what to look for in an OCD therapist?

For more tips on finding the right therapist, please click the link below.

iocdf.org/ocd-finding-help/...

[Sallyskins]

I had a referral to a therapist in my 20s. He insisted on my spilling out stuff about my childhood but didn't actually give me a diagnosis. All I got from him were some half-baked notions that appeared to have some basis in Freudianism, and he would sit there in his cowboy shirt smoking and drinking coffee, and occasionally asking a question while I talked - not exactly professional behaviour!

I only found out I had OCD because my mother bought me a book - Isaac Marks's book Living with Fear. Now my condition had a name, and a treatment - a treatment that hadn't been offered to me by this therapist.

I got so cross with him for not telling me what was wrong with me! I've since had some therapists who did know what they were doing!