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- 2y
I don't if this is OCD it is a really weird thing
This is a weird think I'm struggling with for almost 10 years now. Before I start: english it's not my first language so I'm sorry if I make mistakes. So, I had glasses when I was 12 years old, now I'm 21. I hated the fact that I couldn't see that shit would terrify me. I started learning about eyes a lot and I got hyperaware of them. I started hyper fixating on them and the muscles that are around the eye. So this weird thing happened to me, I can feel scratching or tightening and squeezing my eyeball with my external muscles or I don't know how I do it but I can feel it, and It's now since I was 12 years old a bad habit or whatever you can call it that it's destroying my life. Why? Because when the eyeball get's longer or more pointed the nearsightedness increases. it's like squeezing it like an egg so it gets taller and you know the shape changes I started doing this with my left eye only so my diopter increased in that eye. I started doing it with that eye and till that day there are days that I still do it and can't stop. I do it with my right eye sometimes too but mostly with my left eye because it's the fear that "what if I won't stop", "what if this eye gets lazy and it strains", "what if I lose it completely since the diopter is constantly increasing in that eye because the eyeball is getting longer".. the more fear I have the more I can't stop. I get obsessive thoughts thoughts about it all the time. I have a complete different themes that i connect with this fixation with my left eye and i keep doing it. Ive had religious OCD. Numbers OCD. Existential OCD but most importantly Somatic OCD. Im not sure what this is or it ever happened to anyone in this world before but i know that it destroyed my life. And i attended suicide when i was 19 because of this. Now im almost 22. I try to live like this. I try to control this all but im tired. I need help. Im not gonna do it past 25 if this continues. It already destroyed all my dreams and life i cant focus on anything anymore. I used to be an excellent student now i dont know what im doing anymore. I even have lost my identity. Idk where to get help. How. Im broke. I live in a third world country. Ive tried telling my family they get weirded out and are like umm u gonna be alright. I lost the first job I had cause I couldn't focus on it but I focused on my obsessive thoughts and my left eye. That's it. I hope a therapist or anyone who can assist me with a doctor or anyone who can help me sees this and texts me. I'm in great distress. I'm stuck. P.S. sorry for my typos. I typed all this crying.