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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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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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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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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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Hi there, recently diagnosed with ocd. Now i do recognise some behaviors being a child that were associated with ocd but i could live with them and they never caused me harm. Ocd flared up out of nowhere due to my life being stressful 2 months ago and now i haven’t been the same since. Did it just appear out of nowhere for everyone else. Im so worried it wont get better and it will always be this bad. I constantly have existential thoughts and health w suicide ocd.
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I’m a 20 yr old female, I think I’ve always had ocd but the symptoms didn’t become apparent to me until I was about 17. I feel like that’s where life went downhill for me. OCD attacks everything that is important to me, my sexuality, my morals, even my health. Sometimes I wish I could be a kid again and not have this vicious disease in my head constantly bullying me. But I know I will overcome it one day.
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So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
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