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While seeking appropriate treatment for your mental health needs is important, it is equally important to distinguish self-care from compulsive certainty seeking in OCD. What if my obsessive thoughts are not OCD, but rather signs of being a sociopath?.What if my false memories are delusions?.What if my racing thoughts are a symptom of another disorder which might ruin my life?.What if taking medication altered my brain permanently?.What if my obsessive thoughts are delusions and I am psychotic?.

What if my feelings of depersonalization are indicators of losing touch with reality?.

What if my feelings of sadness and frustration are a sign of clinical depression that could lead me to harm myself?.

What if my mood swings are evidence of having manic episodes during which I could lose control of myself?.

Here are some ways OCD uses hyperawareness to keep you on the lookout for signs of feared mental illnesses. In mental health anxiety, OCD manifests as hyperawareness of mental processes that keep you embroiled in anxiety about mental health. The sole purpose of the OCD hall monitor is to watch out for brain activity that might be an indicator of a potential danger which should be promptly evaluated. Having anxiety about mental health is like having an OCD hall monitor in your mind. OCD may trick you into believing that any shift in mood, thought, or perception may be an indicator of their descent to “losing their mind.” Stress (like a pandemic) or significant changes (like being isolated from family and friends) exacerbate OCD symptoms, and naturally lead to increased irritability and moodiness, which in turn may reinforce one’s fear that their mental health is declining. They worry that the content of their obsessive thoughts may be evidence of something additional going on, perhaps something more sinister that could possibly lead to harming someone.

They imagine what the loss of their mental faculties would look like, which often resembles things falsely and harmfully depicted in the movies. People I work with often tell me they are worried they are going “crazy.” When I ask clients what that looks like, they typically describe being permanently disassociated from reality along with a complete loss of dignity. Isn’t it hard enough to worry about getting cancer or HIV? But what about a psychiatric condition or just “losing your mind” (to use a colloquial phrase)? What is a person to do? What’s Wrong with Me? Just Tell Me! This fact can be scary for anyone, but if you have OCD it can be terrifying. While there are plenty of assessment tools and criteria to help determine a mental health diagnosis, there are no definitive tests that provide any measure of certainty about the overall status of one’s mental health. With mental health anxiety, one is excessively preoccupied with the status of their mental health, whereas in health anxiety one is preoccupied with the status of their physical health. Only I was thinking about mental health anxiety, a manifestation of health anxiety. Recently, I was thinking about the topic of health anxiety (not surprising considering we are navigating a worldwide health crisis). While there are specific themes that people with OCD tend to report (kind of like OCD’s greatest hits), there are no limits to what a person’s OCD can latch onto. It has been my observation both clinically and personally that those of us who have lived with OCD for a long time often have had the experience of OCD jumping from one theme to the next throughout our lifespan. Please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page.