Posted by Sigismund on July 15, 2009, at 19:47:53
In reply to meeting new pdoc - some advice please, posted by g_g_g_unit on July 15, 2009, at 0:53:24
>so would it be some kind of breach to omit the fact that i have OCD, and just present my symptoms as they currently affect my life? for what it's worth, i've never officially been diagnosed with OCD. it's always just something i've assumed i had .. one guy once contested it thinking i had GAD instead. as my therapist understands it, i'm a perfectionist; is that a classification in its own right? i see a lot of similar traits in my friend with ADHD. i'm not really after an armchair diagnosis here .. just wondering if 'perfectionism' can overlap with ADHD AND OCD, or if it's more often a product of one or the other ..?
There's no reason to mention the OCD. It hasn't existed forever. It's not real in the sense of stones or trees; it's a concept created in a particular time. Just present your symptoms.
Perfectionism doesn't have to have anything to do with OCD. Autistic and Aspergers people often have perfectionist traits, but that relates to the difficulty they have in interpreting the world, and that feels a little different to me.
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