anyone educated enough about ocd to help me out?

im having thoughts that i dont have ocd. im not !!extremely!! educated on it but i do know quite a few things, i follow quite a few insta pages for tips and encouraging quotes and i have googled quite a bit on it. i haven't been diagnosed but i have been obsessing over specific intrusive thoughts for a few months now. and i just had another thought that i dont have ocd since I've only ever really overly obsessed over two different themes being real event/false memory. (especially with the "what if" questions") but I've gotten over most of it (for now at least) except for a few thoughts every now and then that get me rlly anxious, and now im thinking that i never had ocd and that i was just overly anxious over these thoughts and that i was just using ocd as an excuse. im pretty sure anxiety and ocd are related in a way, and i do have really bad anxiety but idk about ocd, i wanna get diagnosed but idk how and i dont think I'd be prepared for it. i do relate to a lot of ppl who do have ocd but i feel like because the topics of my thoughts were quite serious (i didnt do anything illegal but the topics were about illegal things) that it was normal for me to make sure i was a good person and to ruminate and obsess over it, that any person would do what i was doing. and i did do a lot AND I MEAN A LOT of compulsions before i knew that what i was doing may be because of ocd, but idk. i keep thinking that if and hopefully when my current intrusive thoughts die down without me having breakdowns over them, that im just gonna be like i used to be again?? idk if thats gonna happen and it makes me nervous like I'd love for that to happen but if it does then does that mean i never had ocd in the first place?? its so UGH

l419

Date posted: 3y

Im not an expert per say, but having ocd most of my life. When I first figured out what it was as a child I accepted it because I didn’t yet know it had negative connotations. I let myself ignore the issue for some years. Now as a 30 yrs old adult I can see that revisiting the label of having ocd and letting myself accept it was very hard, especially because my awareness of the ruminating and other symptoms would come and go. For me accepting the label was important because now I cannot try to pretend it is not a problem. Now I am more aware of why I have certain problems in my life and it helps me to work on things consistently. For you maybe things are more mild, or it overlaps with anxiety or some other issues you dont yet know the label of.. I think the label of you having ocd does not really matter in the end. What matters is your quality of life.. compulsions or obsessions can come and go, they can disappear fully for some time, manifest in a different form, or be resolved through effort and self compassion. Im not going to tell you to get therapy as that is probably a very obvious choice you have already considered, im simply going to tell you that it is okay if you have ocd and it’s also okay if you do not have ocd and mislabeled yourself. If you are happy and well, and find ways to improve when you are not so well mentally, that is all that matters.

justarandomp...

Date posted: 3y

thank you so much for this, i kept having thoughts that if theres a chance i dont have ocd and that its just my anxiety going through the roof, that then I've been lying to myself, which meant i was lying to myself about my intrusive thoughts being "just thoughts". but after reading ur comment, it really doesn't mean what i thought. and having the label doesn't have to prove whats real and whats not. thank you again, hope you're having a good day :)

l419

Date posted: 3y

@justarandomperson Thank you i am so glad if i helped a little bit

3Catsandadog

Date posted: 3y

That sounds 100% like OCD. And even if you didn’t technically have it, that wouldn’t change the validity of your struggles and emotions. The mental torture we all go through is horrific, and even if any of us aren’t yet diagnosed, it doesn’t alter the severity of the pain. Diagnoses are solely used to try to help find ways to process these thoughts and to try to reroute your mental pathways!

samlovesjesus

Date posted: 23w

how do i know if i have OCD?

so this all started not too long ago, for literally no reason at all. but one day i got a random intrusive thought about harming others and it freaked me out bad. since then i’ve been non stop focusing on it and im genuinely scared that i am, or gonna end up like those sick people that have documentaries about them. i’ve never had these types of thoughts before and after me and my mom looked a lot of stuff up we think i have OCD cuz a lot of the stuff it was saying was accurate to me. to anyone in here, does this sound like OCD to you? i’ve always been a nice loving person and these thoughts freak me out so bad and make me feel like i’m a bad gross person. it got to the point i don’t even like looking at myself anymore. i just wanna go back to normal man. another thing to add, when i would explain this to my mom even though i was telling the full truth on how crappy this made me feel it felt like i was lying almost? but i know i wasn’t deep down. i’m just scared that what if i act on something or get in my head too much you know?

Whisper

Date posted: 20w

How do I know I have OCD?

Hey, so I've never actually been diagnosed with OCD. I did a little bit of research, I always thought OCD was organizing things. But I'm not normal, I have this thing where I feel something isn't right. I obsess over it or if I brush my hand over something correctly then it's fixed. Or I have to do this thing on stairs, I'll walk up a few or down them because something isn't right. I read this thing on memories. I know something happened, but then I doubt myself to the point I don't know if it happened. And I think too logically in relationships. I'll put statistics on things and if they might not work out I distance myself, there's other odd things I do. My family always told me I was fine but then said things like I was messed up, and said to just ignore what I felt. Like I was making it up. I don't know what to do, I don't have a doctor currently, I was never diognosed. Is there a way to be sure I have it? Or a way to stop everything? I just want to stop everything, please and thank you. Sorry for the long post. If anyone can help, I would be so thankful.

K1790

Date posted: 12w

Unsure if OCD sometimes

I was diagnosed with OCD around the age of 6, subtype- contamination primarily. It calmed down as I got older and I assumed it had gone away, but also didn’t realize it can show up in other ways, and it still had been effecting me which I know now. I’m not 31 and I’ve been in therapy for a year and it’s helped a lot, although I sometimes get thoughts that what if some of the stuff I’m dealing with isn’t ocd and I’m exaggerating. I feel like thoughts will feel sticky and I’ll do certain compulsions but then the thought eventually vanishes if I do it a few times which makes me think maybe it’s not OCD since other people/friends I know would probably do the exact same thing. Not sure if I’m making sense, but I guess my question is if that thought comes up with anyone else? Just being unsure if something you’re doing actually is ocd or not.

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