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Idont241, it has its ups and downs. I'm sure I've had one of the worst cases, and yet I have managed to enjoy most my life even after having Hocd.
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I'm Brazilian, and also dealing with hocd
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Hang up in there brothers. I consider my case to be a particular and complicated one. Even rare among the HOCD cases. I don't want to detail it here only because I know it can be triggering for some to read. But what I can say is that a I have managed to live with HOCD, fall deeply in love with my current girlfriend, and enjoy sex with her in a way that my HOCD would've make me think I couldn't (very fulfilling). What I mean is, however you feel today, it's your OCD. You can and you will get better. And yes, I have my downs, like the past few weeks, but I keep going and I expect to always get better because OCD can make me doubt of myself, but it cannot convince me that I'm not the person I was before HOCD and even with HOCD.
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Or any latin country?
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I'm dominican. Battling with HOCD...
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I'm in for the group chat! I understand how that is. I've searched and haven't found one single ocd specialist in Brazil. When I told my mom I wanted to set an appointment with an American therapist, she said no. So I'm here untreated, and I refuse to go to a non specialist. It's hard.
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Anyone who wants to be in the group chat dm me at my ig @gabrielterrero_2805
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Who whants to make a groupchat?
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I say it because i know how complicated it can be to have ocd in latin america, the reason i asked about dominican with ocds its because in the DR the illness is practically unexisting, every therapist i go either tries to take the gay away (with pills and mindfullnes) or tries to make come out the closet whenever say i think i have ocd, withou even evaluating me on the matter
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Gracias por tus palabras, nunca creí que nadie respondiera y menos que otro dominicano tenga hocd, me encantaria conocer las experiencias que viven otros latinos en paises donde la enfermedad es practicamente inexistente.
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Yo decidí esperar a poder pagar mis propias terapias, lo doloroso es que mi novia tiene que aguantar mis loqueras mientras tanto
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I haven't been able to read about experiences similar to mine when it comes to my perfectionism OCD so I was wondering if anyone had any "uncommon" experiences.
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Hi I’m new to the community and I have such weird ocd tendencies I was curious to see if anyone else has so I’m just going to list them in no specific order: 1. My brain goes “I hope” every time I think of something bad happening. Like “I hope that pedestrian gets hit by a car” or “I hope a demon snatches me under the bed right now.” 2. I have dermatillomania mostly on my arms, chest, face, and shoulders. If I have a bunch of open wounds on my body, I make myself feel “cleaner” by doing an everything shave in the shower. Conversely, if I’m having a period of mostly healed skin, I like to leave my body hair growing out for a couple days as a way to gloat to myself how “clean” I am even without shaving. 3. After my whole life living with these symptoms, most of them I’m able to brush off. But this next one still shakes me and disturbs me to my core every time it happens and it’s picturing sex acts with people I would NEVER want to do sex acts with. My earliest memory of this is when I was a little kid, as young as 5 years old, I had an image in mind of what I thought God looked like. Every time I would imagine God, I would automatically imagine him naked and I would shove my head under the pillow and shut my eyes tightly and try to make the image go away because I thought I was being blasphemous by imagining such a thing. 4. This one is relatively new, the past year or two, but cutting my own bangs. The only reason I consider it an ocd tendency and not just self sufficiency is because I SUCK at it and botch it every time!!! But I keep trying to find the perfect parting that contours to all the existing cowlicks and kinks in my hair and try to carve out my “natural bangs.” I convince myself a hairdresser is just not familiar enough with my hair growth patterns to give me what I want. This one is particularly embarrassing because it’s like I’m wearing my mental illness on my face. I have been wearing a headband for the past year to try and hide it but it doesn’t stop me from cutting it again because I am so insistent to get it right. I always regret it after. 5. I don’t know if this one is ocd but I suspect it might be and it’s that I rarely ever am not drinking water. If I finish a glass I’m filling up another one. Sometimes it will be a different beverage like coffee or matcha but I almost always am sipping compulsively on something. I use the bathroom about once every hour and 3-4 each night. That’s all I can think of for now but I wanted to share some atypical traits to see if anyone relates! This isn’t by any means all of my ocd tendencies unfortunately:/ just the ones I’ve never heard anyone else share before!
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