OCD?

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Well my psych told me that most people with AS can get diagnosised with OCD by itself. Well my obsession has been a particular people. I have a strong fixated interest but no rituals. I will get obessed with a person( can be romantically or non-romantically). And so I get really fustrated if I cant be around that person or if that person isnt responding to my calls or messages. I will obsess so deeply that I just cant put it down. Its been pretty bothersome for years. This started happening when I was 17 or 18 and I wondered if I had OCD. But the OCD symptoms I read off of websites was so different then what I was happening so I was like this cant be OCD. I used to be really embarressed to discuss these obesssions so no psych never really knew. Its only been recent that I've started coming to terms with my obessions and I discussed with my psych for the first time and he said it was OCD which amazed me. Does anyone else have OCD that is just so different then normal OCD? I dont know how to cope with these strong obsessions. They often drive me to do or say things that I shouldnt. I feel like my diagnosis keep accumilating. AS, depression, anxiety, now OCD. What next? gosh...

You should get a little vest and put commemorative pins on it for each diagnosis. kind of like the Girl Scouts of Psychiatric Disorders. Don't let the names and labels change you

Your psych was wrong, that is not OCD.

I have described OCD here...
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt125646.html

and towards the end of this thread here...

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt130841.html


I'm still quite horrified as to the ignorance of a very basic, fairly common, well understood disorder like OCD in the mental health community.

i dont really know much about all the technical terms but to me it sounds like something that is perhaps related to, but still separate from ocd

To me it sounds more like "obsessive love" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive_love , quite common amongst teenagers but usually disappearing when you become older.

And I guess ( but that's only my opinion) that it may be related to parental issues. Kind of: giving the unconditional love you didn't recieved?

Sorry if you feel that I'm going to far. At the moment I tend to hyper-rationnalize everything - probably due to all that mess around my diagnosis. (And the fact that I don't speak english fluently doesn't help )

Oh crap....I read the Obsessive Love thing and sadly I fit a lot of it. The problem being: I dont know how to control it and stop the onset. Often times I can easily go from person to person. Its crazy.

Does my openness about my special interests seem to be more related to OCD, or just a very strong case of AS?

I read more into it and it does seem that a lot of Obsessive Love roots from a lack of love from parents. But Im pretty certain mine dosent. For the most part my parents provided a loving enviorenment I think? The cause is probably cause I was selectivly mute for 9 yrs of my childhood and I had no friends. So there was probably some developmental issues there. So I was missing some form of love. But on the otherhand...Im sure many aspies have gone w/out friends for extended pd of time?