What events triggered your OCD symptoms?

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It could be like a real life event, news, internet, etc.

I realized I experienced different themes as a child but I didn’t know what it was. But it went away and didn’t really affect me until a few years ago. My current theme was triggered when I got covid and was stuck in quarantine, and I randomly got a intrusive thought about my sexuality 🥲

Childhood trauma and growing up with a father and grandmother who had ocd.

covid19. Once we had to be hyperaware of germs and wash hands frequently/use hand sanitizer it spiraled into this extreme case of germaphobia/ocd.

Combination of stress from a toxic relationship and liek,,, probably getting groomed

at first my debilitating symptoms came from watching a documentary about pedos for school work… i had a groin reaction and thought that meant i was a pedo… and that’s how my pocd started… i was terrified and it became a huge 2 year long obsession for me. but now that i look back i recognize some health anxiety’s and fear of harming others in my sleep if i had thoughts about it in the day.. for the longest time we thought it was “just anxiety” like it would go away, but the i read an article about pocd and it clicked and i was diagnosed after 3 years with symptoms

I've gone through three episodes of this . One was when I was younger I had the belief if I blinked at someone twice they would die and if I blinked at them once or three times they would live. Knew it was stupid but had no idea what the hell was going on eventually it just went away that was when I was around 8-9 year's old. Then October 6th 2013 someone had said something that triggered So ocd but at this time my dad was dying from cancer and was sexually assaulted by a guy and both of my grandmother's died in that year so I think all that stress contributed to it. This time it's So ocd again that was triggered on Feb 22 but I was also in the longest Lockdowns in the world stuck in a 5km radius and in a call center job which I hated. Then I lost my grandfather who I loved dearly and was under the pump at work when I noticed the thoughts were starting to come back. So I think stress is the biggest trigger

Internet.

Trauma from getting cancer. I haven’t been the same since.

Pandemic! Probably also my dad dying. I handled it really well at the time, but after he died I totally spiraled into contamination OCD / covid fears. I think I was handling the pandemic the same as everyone else up to that point.

Postpartum and giving birth