fm5
10-11-2003, 02:43 PM
I was out on disability because of ocd for about 1 1/2 years. It had affected me where I wasn't functioning that well on my job.
I asked my psychologist what are the statistics of people being totally disabled from obsessive compulsive disorder (to the point of going out on disability) and he said it was probably about 50% - with many ultimately returning to their jobs.
My question: has this disorder disabled you to the point of being out of work? If, yes, for how long? And were you eventually able to return to work?
Thanks guys for sharing!
[This message has been edited by fm5 (edited 10-11-2003).]
I asked my psychologist what are the statistics of people being totally disabled from obsessive compulsive disorder (to the point of going out on disability) and he said it was probably about 50% - with many ultimately returning to their jobs.
My question: has this disorder disabled you to the point of being out of work? If, yes, for how long? And were you eventually able to return to work?
Thanks guys for sharing!
[This message has been edited by fm5 (edited 10-11-2003).]
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joey2276
10-13-2003, 05:28 AM
Sorry I have not I am lucky; mine isnt that severe; but just wanted to post that I think it would be much easier to get now then anytime before for several reasons.....blockbuster movies with characters with OCD (Nicholson in As Good as it Gets) Nick Cage in Matchstick Men....also so much more is known and liek they know that about 1 in 40 or 50 people has it where's 25 yaers ago they thought it was one in 200.
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PauloSRS
10-14-2003, 03:29 AM
Im a lucky one, my OCD has just put me out of play for 3 years in a row whille i studdied and now it going to make a complete year since i worked for the last time...OCD makes wonders...
By the way...there are movies about OCD yes but have you seen them ? Try asking to someone who hasn't OCD what they think about As Good As It Gets...only one person in 50 understand the desease and see it like it is...it's just a comedy about a crazy man...it's Hollywood. Maybe if one of the Columbine students had OCD then it would open the eyes of the entire world. I've seen a documentary about OCD in a cable channel called Odissea here in Portugal that made a very exact idea of what OCD is...
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By the way...there are movies about OCD yes but have you seen them ? Try asking to someone who hasn't OCD what they think about As Good As It Gets...only one person in 50 understand the desease and see it like it is...it's just a comedy about a crazy man...it's Hollywood. Maybe if one of the Columbine students had OCD then it would open the eyes of the entire world. I've seen a documentary about OCD in a cable channel called Odissea here in Portugal that made a very exact idea of what OCD is...
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Trust me it's paradise...
fm5
10-14-2003, 01:01 PM
It's strange, but from what I have seen of this illness, it can affect certain areas of your life and not others.
If you have been been able to function at work, I consider you quite fortunate. I was not as fortunate.
If you have been been able to function at work, I consider you quite fortunate. I was not as fortunate.