- Username
- kanyewest
- Date posted
- 2y ago
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.
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!!
So glad you found this community! Welcome!
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!
thank you so much for the sources for counseling !!! it means everything :) i’m glad we are all in this together!
Hello, I have just recently been diagnosed with Pure O OCD and found this app by chance. It’s so amazing to see that other people experience similar things that I do. Now that I know about Pure O, so many things make sense. Thinking back over my life, I never knew so much aligned with OCD. I just figured it was cause of my severe anxiety and depression. Anyways, I’m glad I found this community. :)
Hello! I am new to this app even though I have struggled with OCD almost all my life. I am a college student, almost twenty years old plagued with intrusive thoughts mostly dealing with sexuality and real events. I am happy that I will get to know people who also has OCD and will not make me feel alone. As a starter, how old are ya’ll and how was your experience with this distressful mental illness? I hope all of ya’ll are having a peaceful day 😊
Hello. This is my first post and it’s going to be a confession of sorts… I was recently diagnosed with OCD and it has been really clarifying, scary, and confusing to navigate alone. I am also going through a lot of changes in my personal life. I recently graduated college and I am currently healing from a very difficult break up with my partner of 4 years. I don’t handle uncertainty or change very well so this period of my life has been super stressful and uncomfortable. My recent diagnosis and break up have taught me a lot about myself. I first realized I might have OCD because my mental health and— what I now know to be compulsions— became so destructive to my physical and emotional wellbeing that I actually began googling questions about repetitive self mutilation. The first result was something about the link between OCD and self harm. There were some examples of what compulsive self mutilation can look like, and it strongly resembled the things I have struggled with my entire life. For me, self mutilation is the compulsion I struggle with most. At times it has been incredibly debilitating. From there, I became obsessed with reading into OCD (I find this pretty ironic and funny). The more I research about it the more it resembles the things I have struggled with for as long as I can remember. I realized that the overwhelming guilt, shame, and anxiety I feel constantly are not the consequences of being a bad person, but rather the symptoms of OCD. It feels super validating to learn that the inner turmoil I’ve struggled with my entire life is something other people experience and is actually treatable. I started working with a psychiatrist who specializes in OCD and ended up getting formally diagnosed with moderate to severe OCD. Since learning this, I am beginning to understand myself in an entirely new light. It has in no way been easy. I hit rock bottom and— just when I thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse — I hit an even lower rock bottom. I’m not saying this out of self pity or to try to fish for sympathy, I’m just hoping that I can make someone struggling with a recent diagnosis feel less alone. I have felt very alone in this journey even as I learn that many people struggle with similar things. I still have a lot of learning and growing to do, but I am actively seeking treatment and I’m doing what I can to manage my OCD. I’m really grateful for this platform and I am relieved to know that things can actually get better. I think the next step for me is to start ERP therapy, but right now that sounds really scary and exhausting. Even so, I’m quickly warming up to this form of treatment as I research about its effectiveness. Everyday I discover more ways my life has been impacted by OCD. It’s very painful to realize that the overwhelming shame I feel about my obsessions and compulsions has actually been the reason I’ve lived the first 23 years of my life undiagnosed. My diagnosis has also shed new light on my past relationship and has helped me sort through some of my emotions in this healing process. … To anybody who actually read this whole thing: thank you. If nobody read it then at least I got this off my chest. I would really appreciate any advice on navigating a recent diagnosis and seeking treatment.
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