- Date posted
- 2y
am i a fake
i have undiagnosed ocd but i suffer with it daily and im super sure that i have it, for reasons i can't really go to a doctor to see if i really have it. and i was having an obsessive thought while scrolling on tiktok and i thought of scrolling through the ocd tag to feel like im not alone and this is normal and im fine. but then i just see these people describing their habits and like i have some habits, but im not clean or organized, i dont have habits that really go the "extra mile" i guess, like opening and closing a door over and over again, putting on and taking off my slippers because it doesnt feel right. i just usually try to ignore when i open a door and its not right if it does, and with the slippers i would just adjust them till they feel good. i dont keep things in order and my room is very messy, i dont care about folding things neatly or making sure theres not a speck on my plate after eating. i also have never thrown up yet because of ocd but i have gotten nauseous. i feel like i cant relate at all sometimes. i make myself think of like what if i am really faking it, what if its just a phase or something. i have obsessions and i have compulsions, but i just... i dont know. I keep thinking i dont have it, even tho i obsess over things like harm ocd and pocd, and i scratch and pull my skin to get over it, i literally destroyed the case of the phone im typing on by pulling the rubber covering on it all the time as a compulsion. but i still feel like im not real. Im either a fake or its just not serious i guess for me. yk i feel like no one in my life thinks i have it either. maybe their right tho i am more of a younger person, but i think i had it when i was a small child too, but i could just be imagining things or not remembering correctly, i was also pretty lonely as a child which is apparently linked to ocd. i have consciously been dealing with it for 2 years but is that enough? does it count as ocd only when your an adult? does ocd develop over time as you get older?