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Welcome! I am so happy you are finding help even if it’s just through this app while you are still a teenager. I’ve had OCD for about as long as I can remember but wasn’t diagnosed until I was 18 and I’m now in my late 20s. I’m thrilled to see people getting support at younger ages. A lot of that is due to this app! I have scrupulosity too so I relate well to that experience. I grew up in a non religious household and became a Christian at 17 but the scrupulosity has always followed me regardless of my beliefs. I hope you can find continued support here. :) I am in the midst of my recovery right now so I spend a lot of time on here as I seek to recoup.
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so proud of you:)) i’m glad we can relate to these things similarily, and i’m glad you are on the road to recovery <3 you got this!!
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So glad you found this community! Welcome!
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I am so glad that you found this app and learned that you are not alone! It has been my experience that knowing you are not alone makes the burdens OCD places on us a bit more manageable to handle. Intrusive thoughts can overwhelm us, because they feel real - and here is the secret - they are not real. It is a malfunction in the brain that is telling us there is danger where there is not. Since you are unable to go to counseling, I would encourage you to look at youtube videos from NOCD and/or Nathan Peterson - as that will give you some guidance on how to handle the OCD when it becomes strong. And this is a safe space, and again, I am so happy you have found it!
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thank you so much for the sources for counseling !!! it means everything :) i’m glad we are all in this together!
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- 22w
A huge thank you to everyone. I am new to the app. I’m 28 years old and only recently discovered that my thoughts are a result of my OCD. It’s been so reassuring to hear other people managing the same thoughts I’ve been having.
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Hi, I’m new to the app as of today. I’m 20 years old, and wanted to get some stuff off my chest about the types of OCD I’ve been experiencing over the years. I’m not entirely sure how or when my OCD was brought up, but I’ve been a perfectionist for as long as I can remember. Anywhere and everywhere I go, if I see things placed in an order/angle that my brain doesn’t approve of, next thing I know I’m “fixing” it to be in the placement I feel looks better. I’m not aware of why I feel the need to do that, but until an object is in the “right” placement, I won’t take my eyes off of it. My eye will even twitch. Another form of OCD I have is in relationships. I spend each day overthinking and over-analyzing every one of the relationships that are important to me. Friends, family, significant other. Another one is what’s considered “Pure OCD” . When I get an intrusive thought of something devilish, whether it’s randomly seeing my great aunt naked bc my grandma considers her “fat” even though she’s not, or it’s seeing something demonic and traumatizing, I immediately tell myself, “I don’t wanna see/think about that” over and over and over until the thought is gone. Or I’ll try to replace one mental image with another. One other form of OCD I face every day, is religion. I got baptized for the first time in my life earlier this year in January. I had finally started to repent for my sins, and now I’m constantly feeling afraid that I’m letting God down due to my depression/lack of motivation and vaping/smoking. I also fear excessively that He’ll banish me from His kingdom, or just turn a cold shoulder. I know that what I’ve just typed up is probably all over the place. That is my brain unfortunately. How do you go from being a mentally disorderly and seemingly erratic young woman, to a more well-established, successful woman? I’m all ears!
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- 10w
I’m 19 and struggle with health anxiety, contamination, harm, and magical thinking OCD and would love to meet people with similar experiences and hardships because I have never had an opportunity for such a supportive community!
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