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No they’re several studies that show a genetic factor as well as recent studies to show four different genes that could be the cause of OCD. I definitely believe it’s a result of several different factors but I do believe genes play a role!
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You’re right. I don’t know why I care. Maybe it legitimizes it more in my brain? ??♀️
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Yup. Hit the nail on the head
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My uncle had it. Dad too I suspect but undiagnosed. Definitely think its genetic. I don't believe they've proved it but the studies suggest it.
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It’s highly likely that your grandma has affected you, but you don’t really inherit anxiety. It’s made from bad experiences. Both my grandparents were anxious individuals, and my mom was raised that way too. And so was I. So although it’s in your family, still curable
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The genes would play a role in showing the symptoms and reactions of anxiety, right? Like a gene responsible for your respiratory system or your adrenal glands, something like that. I guess I’ve just become some paranoid conspiracy theorist that believes that American companies share information like that to make people believe psychological problems are things you’re born with and will have to *literally* pay for your whole lives. Naturally, the news spread to other places in the world. I just think it sounds off when literally every person I’ve met with anxiety are, in varying degrees, insecure and can account for why (like experiences that were scary or being raised to doubt yourself). Either because a parent themself was anxious and insecure, or because they were under some form of abuse
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Oh I no doubt believe that your environment plays a major factor in anxiety and depression. But just like our kidneys and our lungs and our heart and our digestive tract can be off, our brains can be of which affects our minds which affects fight or flight responses, etc. I don’t trust everything that’s thrown out there either. However, I do know my experience with severe anxiety and OCD and am thankful for the pharmaceutical companies that have come up with products to help with what we’re going through. And you know what, even if it is because we have been raised a certain way, or have broken pasts, it still affects our bodies and our brains and sometimes we need the assistance of medication/therapy to help alleviate what’s going on.
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I believe you’re right! And medication can be good for some, but damn I don’t dare try it. It’s like ecstacy or MDMA, the chemicals in your body also determines how they play out, so you could either feel real good or real bad. And it’s some weird symptoms too. My mom was physically unable to have orgasms while on antidepressants. Weird, right?
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Mental illness does tend to run in families. It is possible to have a genetic predisposition to mental illness, which makes you more likely to develop one, but this doesn’t guarantee that you will. There are other factors involved that aren’t fully known. OCD is more likely to be linked to genetics if you developed it at a younger age rather than in adulthood.
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- 24w
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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- 16w
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So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
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