When did your ocd start? Mine started when i was like 7 i guess and then it got much worse when i turned 12 and i got my diagnosis when i was 14

Immune started when i was 12 and then 4 years later I have it again :(

At what age does OCD begin? Different individuals develop OCD at different ages. There is a group who develop OCD from the age of about six years onwards (these are more often boys than girls; we discuss these children more in Chapter 8), and there is another group that starts to develop OCD during adolescence, but the average age of onset is the early twenties. It is slightly earlier for men, who tend to develop OCD in the late teens, than for women, in whom it tends to emerge in the mid-twenties. There is, however, wide variation in the age of onset of OCD: it can occur for the first time in children as young as three and also in the elderly. In many ways, OCD in children is much the same as in adults, although children often find it difficult to articulate the meaning of their obsession or the feared consequences of not carrying out their compulsion. Interestingly, it is far less common to develop OCD for the first time at an advanced age. However, there are elderly individuals who have had OCD throughout their lives, but have not yet sought or received effective treatment. Some have had mild OCD for years, finding it possible to contain within a relatively normal life, but have then experienced something significant, such as the death of a spouse or partner, which has led to their OCD becoming much worse and getting beyond their control. One reason why the level of OCD has been underestimated in the past is that people with OCD are often too afraid or too ashamed to seek help. Often individuals with OCD struggle on by themselves for 10–15 years before they seek professional help. There is a variety of reasons for this reluctance: many individuals with OCD worry that other people will think they are crazy, do not know that their disorder is a recognized condition, or think that they should just be able to pull themselves together.

Out of my book

Think I got it in my early teens.

Mine*

I was 14 at the onset and 15 at the diagnostic session with my then-psychiatrist.....