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I have been plagued with obsessions that have cause me intense anxiety and forced me to feel the need to complete compulsions to ‘fix’ the feeling my entire life. So that is a negative thing that I am only just now realising is probably some form of ocd. But on a more positive note I have also always been one to have what I call ‘positive’ obsessions over things like certain films, characters, books etc and more specifically an obsession with the details of these things but it brings me joy not anxiety. Like for example I was obsessed with tin tin comics when I was so little that I couldn’t even read them yet but I would spend hours flicking through the pages and picking up on the tiniest minute details in the drawings (if you can picture the drawing style of tin tin you’ll know what I mean). I thought it was so fun. Is that just a personality thing or is this in some way linked to the ocd? Or is it even that being prone to very detail oriented behaviour you are at more risk of developing ocd?

Boss34

Date posted: 3y

Like the details go over and over in your head? I have the sane thing sort of, idk?

Boss34

Date posted: 3y

Idk but ocd in my mind makes people very observant of detail

EmBM

Date posted: 3y

Sort of… or like if I notice a drawing of a tiny pair of glasses in a comic strip (random example) I will then focus in on that and pick them out in every drawing they happen to pop up in

Boss34

Date posted: 3y

Lol it is a blessing in sone ways, I dint forget much, I’m 60 now, I can tell you where who ect from when I was about 5! But it gets in your brain and makes yiu dwell on things, like a record playing over and over! I tel my wife she says or thinks sone random thing she forgets rite away, me, it goes over and over I’m my head…

Boss34

Date posted: 3y

I can relate, in my head I have a schedule, ti do things, my wife tells me that I think everyone should be like me lol!!!! Numbers, ect since I was a kid, order, just strange… I know I’ll always be like this, just wish thinking things and the guilt would go away

Boss34

Date posted: 3y

Lol Rangers fan here since 1970!!!!

Boss34

Date posted: 3y

Real hockey days!

Boss34

Date posted: 3y

Will do thanks

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 17w

Looking at People Through a Sexual Lens?

Hi everyone, I have been struggling with something for a while and I am starting to wonder if it is related to OCD. For as long as I can remember, I have had this habit of looking at people, whether friends, family, or strangers and even kids, through a lens that feels like it is from the perspective of someone who might find them attractive or sexualize them. I don’t want to feel attracted; it just feels like my brain automatically puts them in that perspective. I’ve done this for as long as I can remember, and I honestly thought it was just part of me being curious or creative. I have always thought this was just a quirk of my brain, but now I am starting to wonder if it is an OCD thing, especially since it feels automatic and I get anxious afterward. Has anyone else experienced this? I did not think this was part of OCD, but now I am not so sure.

Coolgirl321

Date posted: 13w

Overthinking or ocd

I feel like my whole life I’ve been overthinking everything. I remember having really bad intrusive thoughts as a kid but I thought I had gotten over it. I feel like I’m starting to see that it’s just not manifested in different ways. I tried to bring it up with my therapist but she thinks it’s just anxiety. I feel like it’s something more. Does anyone have any advice on what personally showed you what was the difference

mriley♥

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 13w

Fun question! 😊

Not sure if this is OCD or ADHD or both, but sometimes I get really stuck on a topic to the point that it's obsessive and somewhat debilitating but still fun. Does anyone else get caught up on random topics (in a slightly unhealthy way)? This part of my mental health issues is one I don't mind as it has contributed a lot of joy to me through different fandoms and groups in my life. Just curious what obsessions (positive) you guys have and if you consider it a blessing, a curse or a blerse lol

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