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That sounds terrible. <3 Learning to manage OCD is a long and difficult process, and emotional support is important. It's possible that your parents may simply be extremely worried about you, (anxiety sometimes expresses itself as frustration/anger); still, their actions strike me as surprisingly cruel, especially given what you are struggling with. I'd like to preface this following word of advice by mentioning that I'm not a psychologist - take everything I say with a grain of salt, and if you are able, speak with a therapist about the best course of action. So, the way I see it, there are multiple moving parts here - OCD and your parents. You need to keep working on managing OCD, not for your parents, but for yourself. This means cleaning your home and not letting OCD affect your living conditions for your own sake - if it spirals out of control again like it did before, you need to contact someone for help and not continue to live in an unhealthy environment. With regards to your parents, I would try to communicate and understand their reasoning before doing anything else - they might have good intentions/feel really worried about you and have an unhelpful way of showing it. However, if they continue to refuse to listen or try to understand how their actions have affected you, then you are well within your rights as a grown adult to remove yourself from situations involving them. I know that sounds kind of extreme, but if they're really not listening and this is contributing to depression, it may be a course of action worth considering, at least for a little while. Whatever you decide, I hope that you're able to get through this okay and find a way forward. <3
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I know you said that you tried therapy and it didn't work. What type of therapy? Traditional talk therapy does NOT work for OCD. Have you tried doing ERP?
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Yeah for 2 years :( it’s not that it didn’t work , it’s I’m too scared to start and I’m still that way
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@Eve ERP is definitely scary. But the benefits are SO worth it. What is it about ERP that scares you? That you won't be able to handle the anxiety?
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I'm so sorry, this sounds so terrible to be treated this way. Do uou gave OCD diagnosis? Don't they know? Are you in treatment? Once upon a time I was in a similar situation with the landlord, I felt so ashamed. I hope you'll get treatment and support, you are worthy of understanding and support from people who care.
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Yeah been diagnosed for years and everyone knew I have had therapy . The landlord seeing it was so embarrassing. I keep having flashbacks and nightmares about it. I had to pay £800 for the damage . I understand but paying bc of an illness is frustrating. I’ve had depression throughout my teenage life but now at 20 I feel so depressed and useless . I’ve lost everyone’s trust again and they don’t even understand why . I wish someone would come help me bc I can’t do it myself anymore . I’m crying out but I’m just getting into more shit
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I think you really need to talk about your contamintion ocd and about all different types of ocd how much fear disstress it causes how your day to day half is struggle . Beacause people who dont have ocd will never know the real struggle of who have one.
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* with your parents.
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I’ve tried . Multiple times . They understand to a degree but they think that I’m suddenly better now that I’m in a new place . I’m not and I’m finding it incredibly different to keep on top of things to avoid my angry father . I just feel like I don’t wanna live this life at all . It’s just pure pain and I’ve been waiting a decade for things to get better . It’s just worse and worse and I’d rather just be not here tbh
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Your parents do not hate you! So don’t say that! If they don’t know you have ocd then it’s understandable how your father reacted. I know it’s difficult but you need to inform them of your OCDif not already.
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I have :( they don’t get it . They think I’m lazy . I can cope anymore
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I’m sorry. Maybe try to have a talk with them. They love you and I’m sure they will understand.
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- 24w
I never heard about people with OCD who have messy living conditions. Maybe this is why it took so long to accept my diagnosis. Although I really dont like how OCD is percieved at by the majority of people, I feel like Im weird or something because I dont fit into that stereotype. I understand that a lot of people with OCD have this issue, but why do I feel so different? If anybody else has/had this belief, what helps with feeling more comfortable? Everytime my mom points out my room, and how its messy- Its like I feel so lazy and useless. So then I often plan out everything I was going to do, step by step, always having a reasoning behind everything, because logic always comforts me. When I start tidying up my room, I go full out (Sheets, Laundry, Clorox, Candles, Vaccuming, Then I start going through the guinea pigs cage to rearranging all of their stuff) Yet always somewhere after doing a few things, I start feeling disgusting and almost shameful of myself. 99% of the time I end up laying on my floor sobbing, noting every little thing about my room. How my furiniture doesnt match, how i would rather have solid floor like hardwood or vinyl instead of the carpet, usually things i cant change… and then barely anything gets done in my room. I start to have a meltdown and often dont take care of myself even more afterwards. A piece of me feels like my thoughts are just me being a spoiled brat and wanting everything i dont have- meanwhile others dont even have a roof over their head. The other piece of me is just tired, just emotionally exaughsted. Please comment any thoughts or recomendations to maybe improve motovation and attitude towards doing long tasks.
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- 24w
Yesterday I had a panic attack from OCD fears. I live alone, so in my panic I called my mum just to get some emotional support. It did not go well. I was asking for reassurnce to much and basically she got annoyed with me and started to chastise me. She said I was being ridiculous and accused me of just making up my symptoms to emotionally manipulate her. She even went as far as threatening to call the police on me to have me sectioned. I feel so humiliated. I know that I can be annoying during my panic attacks, and that my OCD puts a massive toll on my familiy. But I don't want to manipulate people. Now, I feel like an abuser. In these moments, seeing how much my weakness makes my family suffer makes me just want to not be here anymore.
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- 18w
Okay so my parents don't really handle my ocd that well. For starters my contamination is getting worse (I'm 14) and keep exisivly washing my hands, or using toilet roll which is unfortunately really common. Now they are getting angry at me for using too much toilet roll... What do I do? There saying I'm ruining there lifes because of my ocd. I'm making there lifes miserable. And they don't COMMUNICATE or sit down with me and look me in the eyes and try sort it out WITH ME. they just go "STOP USING SO, MUCH TOILET ROLL" "you've broke another headset" "WE ARE ALLOWED TO BE PISSED AT YOU" and I'm getting self harm urges because there making me out to be such a bad person. Which obviously doesn't mix well with ocd.
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