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It is . Thank you!
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Hi! I feel the same, I'm 20 and I can't drive either, it makes me very anxious, I'm totally afraid of driving, I tried to learn and I wasnt that bad but now I just can't, but I will try maybe in 1 or 2 years again I'm also angry, upset, jealous and frustranted, because it seems everyone has, is and does what I would like to have, be or do:( But deep inside I know it is not the reality, just OCD related
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Felt :/ I feel like I’m drowning in my thoughts . I miss myself .
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@Brian :) Me too, I miss myself as well, I miss when I was like 16 or so... Everything was better But I guess we need to stop thinking that much about the past or about what we were, we can't go back as much as we would like to, we only have today and the future
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@Gago It can be so tough. I was obsessed with going back to being 17 for years and just recently (at 32) have been able to enjoy who I am now. We can always romanticize our past, but even though the OCD may not have been as present, we had tendencies we didn’t realize at the time.
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@alimarie1990 Thank You! I didn't know other people felt what I feel about wanting to go back to a certain age
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After moving out, my husband and I had to move back in with my parents TWICE before we were able to successfully buy a house and be independent. I know it can be incredibly frustrating. Everyone moves at their own pace though. I’m sorry your parents aren’t being as supportive as you need them to be, but I hope this community can provide you with the strength you need. OCD is tough, but you are tougher.
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Bro America isnt helping. Even with a full time minimum wage job it’s impossible to afford a nice apartment let alone a house. It was something like 50-70 percent of people under the age of 28 or something are living with their parents right now in America.
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I’m feeling kind of sad cause today was not a really good day in terms of my ocd. I was feeling kind of foggy/numb and that send me to spiraling. I’m 21 years old currently studying but my family has been having trouble with money for the last couple years(we’re just me and my mom) and I kinda want to get a job but everything is far from my home and I wouldn’t be able to return back at night, also it’s either way more expensive to move or the schedule wouldn’t let me take my classes. The point is that because of that every time my mom is stress tends to treat me bad, she speaks to me like I’m stupid or she just screams to nothing cursing all life and everything and that actually makes me feel soo bad and guilty for not doing anything, I know it’s hard for me to get a job that actually helps us without quitting school but that doesn’t stop me from feeling like I’m a burden. I want to help, I want to maybe hug her or something but I know she will be angrier and probably will reject it. So that’s it, I just feel like she punishes me for the stress she’s carrying and I get it but one day is happy and it feels like all love and the next is treating me like that, Idk it’s hard (also I feel like I shouldn’t be saying this cause it’s all my fault) 🫤
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My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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I have OCD, but my parents don’t understand what I’m going through. All I wanted was for someone to be by my side and support me, but they dismiss my struggles, telling me to "just stop thinking" and that I’m making a big deal out of nothing. When I asked for a new therapist because my current one isn’t helping—she isn’t even an OCD specialist—they became angry and didn't believe I need therapy and instead blame me for everything. My father was so mad, he insist to gave me a knife and kill myself. He threatened to isolate me completely, cutting me off from school, the internet, and everything else. My mom cried and shut me down when I tried to explain my pain. They refuse to listen and my dad said it’s all my fault. That day they threw me outside the house for a night, and called me back in telling me to forget everything and forgive them, but I understood that I will not be able to mention anything about my mental health or seeing an OCD specialist ever again, I am completely alone now. With no financial support, and now I don’t know if I’ll ever get the proper therapy I need. I’m only 15, but it feels like I’ll be trapped in this suffering forever, I feel hopeless, I feel like shit, I am going to suffer forever with no support and help.
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