Tell me the story what triggered your OCD the first time? Mine was when I had pneumonia when I was 13 and it was really scary experience so I was afraid that I was going to die.

The first intrusive thought I clearly remember happened when I was 8. I had gone with my family to an amusement part and my dad and I were on the Ferris wheel. We ended up stuck and the top. I completely freaked out. I remember thinking that I was going to fall out and that the ferris wheel was going to break and my dad and I were going to fall to our deaths. I remember saying "I don't like this. Why aren't we moving? I don't like this" my dad tried telling me to just calm down and explained that we needed to wait so other people could get on. It felt like an eternity before it started moving again. I couldn't wait to get off that thing. Haven't been on a ferris wheel since. I'm now 45. I have been afraid of heights for as long as I can remember. I also have an irrational fear of bridges especially if I walk over them.

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When I was 6, I thought that if I thought about vomit I would puke, but then I couldn't stop thinking about vomit and got scared and started crying. Dad asked me what was wrong, and I told him that there were "bad things in my head". He was very confused.

When I first I had ocd my parents didn’t no wat to do I was takeing showers for 2 hours cause I’d get stuck doing rituals not noing the amount of time that had passed I had other problems to things to do long to do that’d I’d just stop I’d stop washing my hair cause it was to hard my sister kept telling me I was doing it on purpose to keep ppl from getting in the bathroom and another time my dad would do this little hand thing I did cause of mt ocd in a mean way telling the hospital to take me I’m not normal there’s something rong wit me and I didn’t no this then but my older sister had ocd when she was younger cause she was molested and she use to wash her hands till they bled I never had anything like that done to me my ocd just came when I went threw puberty but my dad doing that to me was horrifying and noing mt older sister had it wat did he do to her and she had something happen to her to cause it mental illness runs in my family my mom was anorexic when she was younger and relatives have other mental illness and drug addiction I get stuck wit ocd that ruins my life.

I needed help and couldn’t get it cause nowere helps wit ocd noone took the time to understand me ppl were just tlk bout me cause it’s such a wierd illness most ppl are just unsympathetic and don’t want to try to relate and understand you I wish I had better help and support round me.