ocd attacks the things we love the most to make us feel crazy its because you live your family and love your cat very very much that ocd chooses to ruin them for you you need to sit with the ocd and try to listen to your own voice instead of the ocd get your true feeling out as for psychologists wouldnt be bad to tell them thats you are afraid they might misdiagnose you im sure they can help you with that ocd is putting up walls for you to be afraid of help or scared of it so youll still stay stuck my therapist says ocd is used as a distraction from what is really stressing us out in real life i would go buy yourself a nice journal and write down how you feel then write after a line space â€œi completely love and accept myselfâ€ then expand again on your feelings and write the line again if you feel like you need help you can use an online thesaurus to help you pinpoint how you feel remember the things you feel are unrelated to these ocd thoughts you have to think hard about things going on in your life for example if you lost your job or a friend stopped talking to you or you are worried about money etc for example if you write i am feeling upset then type upset in the thesaurus â€œupsetâ€ and it will give you more words to pick from like distressed hurt which will take you to more words and write these down you may need to do it 20 times i know i did the first time i did it but it needed to be done