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- 6y
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Yeap, actually that is very common. They say that a major event can trigger the OCD big time in some people such as going to college or getting married. For me was the birth of my daughter at age 24. I was one before that and someone different after it.
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- 6y
idk if this answers your question id say it's more like a wave from an ocean you can't find. i had ocd ever since i was five, so it's origins are unclear to me. it'll come and it'll not go, but fade, over and over again. like for example it hit me at full force last year and has been that way since. stress can definitely make it worse tho. with age, with the progression of life, comes stress.
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- 6y
completely. i’m going to be a senior and for as long as i remember i was always so scared of being a senior bc that meant growing up, going to college, and basically being on my own; which was one of the biggest anxiety things for me. now i’ve kinda noticed that the older i got, the worse it got. i would get a hold on things then lose grip, then get a hold, then lose grip again. it’s always been like that. but the weird thing is that i have HOCD and that’s not even close to what always used to give me to most anxiety and what i was always so worried about. idk, it’s all so weird. i’m just hoping that this won’t last forever and that it’ll eventually go away :/
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- 6y
yesssss! I am 20 and I've literally only just this year realised that I had OCD. I honestly just thought everyone thought like this, and asking for reassurance is a BIG compulsion of mine that I didn't even know I was doing. I look back now and every stressful thing I've been through has been due to my ocd. it's a severe anxiety disorder so it can develop from GAD/anxiety. I hope you have support around you and find this community helpful, please give ERP try when you're ready it's helped me so much and hopefully will for you too
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- 23w
Anyone else develop it in their 30s? I’m 33 and just started showing symptoms in October 2024. So far have only been diagnosed with GAD , PD and depression.I started having intrusive thoughts after a series of panic attacks . My compulsions would be googling. I have made an effort to stop though because it only makes me feel worse. My intrusive thoughts have been around fear of going crazy
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Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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- 18w
Hello there. I’m new here and think I may have OCD I’ve struggled with anxiety my whole life. However, in my early teens, I started experiencing obsessive fears and engaging in compulsions because my brain convinced me that if I didn’t perform a certain action a specific number of times, it would “prove” that I wanted something terrible to happen. When I was 17, I began seeing a therapist and opened up to her about this. She diagnosed me with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and I accepted the diagnosis But last night, I became curious about whether people with GAD engage in compulsions and have specific fears, so I looked it up. I was shocked to learn that these are not typical characteristics of GAD Now, I would love to find a therapist who specializes in OCD so I can get a formal diagnosis and the appropriate treatment
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