Ocd or health anxiety

[Anon123]

Basically I have been suffering with anxiety for a long time. I would always get thoughts about harm coming to my family and catsrophic event so would spend hours a day on the internet trying to find a way to protect them. I spent a long time in constant fear with these obsessional thoughts. My anxiety then changed into having to text family members to make sure they were not dead as I would have horrible images of them dying. Other example have been checking the weather as feat or being struck by lightning or the same with the news as I has images of my family being bombed so checked to make sure they would be okay. In the last year my anxiety has changed to health fears from autism to septisima and most recently luekemia . I spend hours a day on the internet researching, checking my hands to calm my anxiety ( irrational I know) or checking my body for rashes or bruises. I have panic attacks and have times that I completely break down in fear. Today I saw my therapist who says I have OCD but that they are not going to dignosis me as they don't want me to be labeled. I am now confused if I have OCD? Do my symptoms point towards it or was my therapist wrong?

[anthrokid]

Trust your therapist - they go through A LOT of training to be able to make diagnoses and treat people. From what you've said it sounds to me like you are suffering from OCD and anxiety - you can suffer from both together and OCD can influence your anxiety.

[RoseEve]

My therapists wouldn't label me as well. They said I have OCD traits but my obsessions aren't inferring with my life and I don't spend enough time thinking about them.