- Username
- mckp23
- Date posted
- 100d ago
- Relationship OCD
- Order & Symmetry OCD
- Perfectionism OCD
- Suicidal OCD
struggling to be friends with my friends
I’ve been struggling with OCD (that I was able to identify/diagnose) since I was 13 and it’s been hard. Over the years I’ve tried to dissolve or minimize my symptoms of it due to fear of the ppl I talk to not fundamentally understanding it. Which in itself isn’t the problem but I’ve done so much to where it is. I barely talk about any of my issues especially the pressing ones that now if I try to bring my my severe OCD or the treacherous faculty of it, I get stumped. Cause I know from the past if I have failed to express my concerns, ik their first question will be “well what do you mean” continued by “it can’t be that bad” so one and so forth. Even if they don’t say as such, I just know it’s the thought. I guess I’m just trying to ask, OVERALL, how do I bring up my debilitating OCD to my friends who have since been thinking they know all about me????