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I have a question.
What kind of events that caused you to have OCD?
What kind of events that caused you to have OCD?
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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.
@Anonymous Same here! All that uncertainty 😬 it just spiraled out of control 🌀😵💫
@Migratory_Bird Glad to hear I’m not the only one. Yeah I got bad. Here’s to us getting out of this! 🤝
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
@Gert0872 and i think it was my childhood that may have caused it my dad leaving and my mom going through intense breakups and showing scary behaviors in front of us maybe. Getting yelled at a lot by her. and she has also struggled with neuroses and depression and stuff
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.
Same 😔
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
Last year during April I started to experience groinal responses when I looked at kids. I was terrified of what it could mean and decided to attempt two weeks later. The very next day I had those responses I decided to attempt. I didn’t really have the courage to do so at that time but I started experiencing images about disturbing things done to kids and as days went by it got worse. April 16 was the last straw and I couldn’t take it anymore. I ended up in a mental hospital but before I ended up there I had searched up what I was experiencing. That’s when I started to understand that it was OCD. I felt relieved for a few moments until I felt the urge to get more information. I saw lots and lots of things and many comments saying that it wasn’t normal and that people who went through this were disgusting people who shouldn’t be allowed to roam free. That’s when my anxiety and fear became worse and I tried to get rid of it but nothing worked. I shook the entire time I was awake, I didn’t have motivation for anything anymore, I just felt so disgusting. In the end, I’m so glad I ended up in that mental hospital or else I wouldn’t be here with my friends and family. Thank you for reading my story, I’m so glad that I’m not alone
Why do some people develop OCD?
So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
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