"Medical personnel communication"

For the last few years, I've been a patient at the Next Step Drug and Alcohol clinic in Perth WA and I've first-hand seen and suffered how I believe the staff I have seen in this community treats the "lowest of the low", who in my opinion may not have the wherewithal to do something about it, the cognitive processing and communication skills to stand up to themselves; how are they to articulate it?

In my opinion, medical decisions being made for absolutely no medical reason, uneducated staff taking out their life's frustrations on poor patients etc...

I felt like a nurse attacked me once during a session for daring to suggest that I might have OCD-like symptoms.

As soon as I said that, I recall they contorted their face into this vitriolic expression and, I felt, aggressively said oh so I wash my hands 8 times in a row do I? Huh? Huh? To which my answer was a regrettably meek "No, I guess not".

Thanks for putting back the treatment of my O-OCD by years because it seemed they were unable to understand things which I believe they were supposed to be educated on; I have a somatosensory versions of the OCD sensations that's all about balancing the feeling, and no, I don't "wash my hands 8 times", but I have caused several incidents including a car crash because I had push my foot in a particular way, does that count? Is that "bad enough" of a symptom to take me seriously?

And how I wish that was the worst of it; it took years of deconstructing the elaborate system of masking my own symptoms (which started for fear of people like the nurse) to actually understand that my own intrusive thoughts are also symptoms, I guess it's not as cool as hand washing OCD, I'm sorry about that, but maybe I could get some help too? No? Not happening? Ok thanks just thought I'd ask.

God I shudder to think the other ways if I were even less articulate than I am at the time would have tried to communicate the confusing array of symptoms I live through, and the results they've yielded from this clinic in turn... In my opinion, "pathetic" is the only thing that comes to mind, but I'm sure I'll kick myself later for not coming up with a less "belligerent" way to express that thought lest my natural frustrations be used against be, I believe to dismiss me further....