Starting college with OCD

I will be starting college in the next few weeks and wanted to ask anyone if they had any tips for helping with the overstimulating anxiety that lays in my future. I feel pretty prepared, and know that it will be a battle to keep up all the while navigating a massive change. I tend to suffer from disassociation when it comes to new environments, so if anyone has experienced a huge environment shift, what got you through it?

Username: Nessaboo

Date posted: 228d ago

I have contamination ocd but it definitely wasn’t as bad in college but I’ll still see if I can help. I’d say give yourself a lot of grace. You’ve never done this before and you will make mistakes. That is ok. Also, try not to stress about what hasn’t even happened. You are strong and can handle whatever comes up. I know my ocd loves to make things so much scarier in my mind then what actually happens (most of the time). And if something actually is bad, I handle it. Not always as gracefully as I’d like but still through it. You are going to grow so much and I wish you the best on this new chapter!