hi i was wondering i’m 13 find i feel like i may have ocd i havnt been diagnosed but i always think my friends hate me when i know they don’t and last year, all i thought about was if i was gay or not and i know that i’m attracted to girls but i stressed about it a lot and lately, thoughts have gotten stuck in my head a lot and right now i’m struggling with, i did something sorta bad but not even really that bad but it won’t get outta my head and i always feel if it makes me a bad person but it’s not even that bad, also i arrange stuff so that it’s to the right so that it’s facing like right and it’s not really that i stress if i don’t do it too much just that i feel the urge to do it, another thing i do is arrange stuff so that it’s not touching other stuff and if i touch something with my left hand then i’ll have to touch it with my right hand, if i spin one way i have to spin the other, if i say something to someone and they don’t hear it i have to keep saying till they hear it and if they something i stress out if i don’t hear it, and also a lot of it is how stuff will happen on the spot like i’ll just feel the urge to touch that counter 10 time .i’ve been going to counselling for anxiety but i feel like the stuff i do is more ocd than that i’m just really stressed out does this sound like ocd

thanks dude i’m honestly just worried, i’m popular at my school and i feel if they find out that i have this that maybe ppl will think i’m weird and not wanna hangout with me, and i’m scared girls arnt gonna like me if i have this, ive told some of my good friends abt it and they were all supportive tho, i’m also really scared that i’m gonna go crazy

Goodness, you sound like me just before I got diagnosed! (I was around 12 at the time) Please See a professional! OCD is scary but manageable with treatment! Regardless if you have it or not, this 100% isn’t a healthy mind

i’m finding the thing abt being gay doesn’t really come up in mind anymore, like not really at all but idk

I was super paranoid about that too when I was diagnosed but I later found out that it wasn’t that big of a deal. Mental health issues are really prevalent in our generation unfortunately://

ya

i know people just think it means i arrange charts in things in a certain way

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Thankfully that isn’t that much of an issue for me anymore because all of my friends know and they have the decency not to do that around me. Also, I found out one of my friends has OCD too, like genuinely, and it’s so cool to finally have someone who ACTUALLY gets it

ya for the most part

my friends are supportive just i don’t think they understand what it is like

like how it takes a part of your life

and how it’s worse than physical pain

Whatever everyone else said above with lots of love and support.

holy crap i relate to you so much it’s insane. i’m 14, idk if i have ocd either but i go through the same stuff that u just said and i also have super intrusive thoughts about hurting people that i love and it’s like i’ll bang my head to try and make it stop but it never does. it’s literal hell. i also run w the “popular crowd” at school and it sucks cause when one of them see me doing a compulsion or whatever, they always ask me what i’m doing. ur like the boy version of me oml bahahah

ahah i always touch a door handle 3 times before i open the door and everyone is like wtf

yess i have a thing w the number 4. like i need to scratch my arm four times and then i have to scratch the other arm four times and then scratch both of them at the same time. it’s crazy

ya one of mine is if i touch something i have to touch it three times

yeah and like you try to be low key about it? ughh