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Thank you so much, I really appreciate it, i just feel like wouldnt be as understood, but i guess i am.
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Again, thanks. Talking to someone who understands me really helps. I will try to do that, and gradually be more confident.
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It’s super scary when you first start opening up about it! Especially around people who don’t have it. So start here! People post about all kinds of struggles on this app, and the struggles people fear are the weirdest are often the most common. I can basically guarantee you’re not alone in whatever it is you’re fearing right now. Open up and see for yourself! Also: if you can work with an OCD specialist, I think you’d also find some comfort. They’ve heard it all. When I talked to mine, she said “that’s incredibly common” to practically everything I mentioned.
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at first ocd was scary to me, later it changed me to good side, i started loving myself more, noticed when you get good rest, meditate ocd is much less agressive. now i think the problem is not ocd but how i came to the point where i developed:) stay strong
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Pureolife that's exactly how I feel! I've never really been around people who understand me, and it is great to.
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Most people don’t realize that they have ocd and it takes years before they finally seek help. I didn’t realize that it was “ocd” that had been slowly infiltrating and chewing up my life for at least 20-30 years before seeking help. Change the face mental health and get help early. Everyone here stands behind you with support and guidance.
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Thanks alot for taking time to write that message. I feel that in this case, my way of dealing may be a little bit more similar but earlier. Not everyone is the same so i may not understand you, but I should most definitely see a therapist or psyciatrist or something like that.
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You can talk about it here, what makes you think you have OCD?
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Well i struggle every second of my life, thinking I havent opened my window or shut the door four times or ordered my pens for school the next day. It drains constantly asking for reassurance or asking someone to say something twice. Theres so much more, and it hurts talking about it because I can't speak up.
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I have to eat an even amount of something have an even volume on the TV, say things twice.
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If you want to get diagnosed you could see a therapist. It sounds like you have OCD though. And hey, you weren't too scared to talk about it here, so this is a great start! Maybe you'll get comfortable talking about it here, and more comfortable taking your next steps in person :)
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You shouldn’t be scared to talk to a specialist. It’s the only way you can feel better. When you understand that you have something to support you, everything is much easier. Find a good therapist and just talk to them. Then you’ll understand whether you really need help
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Yeah thank you i feel i just dont know how to find one.
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Everyone is their own person going through their own struggles. But we're going through similar ones, so we understand and are happy to help!
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Thanks a million!
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If you're on your parents' health insurance, talk to them if you feel comfortable about it. Easier said than done, I know. You can also just talk to your school counselor, they can be helpful to you. If you're not on your parents' insurance, talk to your health insurance and they can help you find one.
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Matenzio, I know i've had it for a long time (if i do get diagnosed) and it has been hard, because i used to ask myself, why i am like this and why I couldnt just be normal, but now i'm at the point where I know I need to speak up.
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Mike1234 was there anything in particular that made you realise you could be suffering with OCD?
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Thank you so much
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I didn’t realize I was suffering from ocd until I decided to contact a therapist due to high amounts of anxiety and depression (crying for no reason & sadness), as well as undue relentless feelings of stress. After several sessions I started doing my own research and found an article on ocpd which matched a lot of my symptoms. I took the article to the therapist (PhD) and he said I had OCD not OCPD. I started looking back on my life and realized it had been with me since my teenage years.
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Yes. If you are experiencing things at a young age seek help early. OCD was something sitting dormant for me and I just didn’t know about it.
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I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but when I learned more about it, I never related to anything more. A little back story: when I was younger, there were a couple of youth suicides in my area and the schools felt the need to have someone come in and talk about suicide. Well the person they had come in did a horrible job teaching it and basically made it seem like the smallest negative emotion or feeling or change in behavior made you suicidal. This ended up scaring me so much that I got horrid anxiety. Fast forward to now, Everytime I feel anxiety and panic, I fear I'm going to kill myself. Everytime I feel down and depressed, I fear I'll end it all. I'm scared to be around anything sharp because the "What if" I hurt myself comes into my mind. There are always intrusive thoughts at almost every point of the day. And it's not only for me. Everytime I hear someone being negative, I fear they will be suicidal. I know in my heart that none of this is true but it's terrifying me that it's stuck around so much that it makes me scared that maybe it is true. I've had a lot of death in my family in the past year and a half and a lot of other family drama that I'd never had before that is now also bringing up existential intrusive thoughts. And I'd never questioned anything about life before but now I get the "why is life like this?" and "does anything we do matter?" and I hate it. I don't want to think like that. I just want to go through life being able to handle things normally again. It terrifies me even right now going "what if you give up?"
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I've never been diagnosed with OCD, but have thought for a long time that I do have it. I've tried to bring it up in therapy but have been shot down as "OCD tendencies". Luckily I'm with a new therapist and am planning to bring it up again. Especially after reading a lot of your posts, I'm really resonating with them. Especially my anxieties and obsessions with my health. God forbid I feel any weird pain or ache, I instantly think I'm dying. Sometimes I get a weird pain in my head and think it's a stroke or aneurysm. Ill go as far as the perform the stroke FAST test. This happens multiple times a day. I also have HUGE anxieties about death and my mortality. If I think about it too much, I get this deep cold pit in my stomach and spiral. Even talking about it causes me sooo much distress. I'm just worried I'll be dismissed or told I'm just self diagnosing because I related to a post online. But if any of this sounds accurate, please let me know. I'd love to be reassured of my obsessions rather than just dismissed as being anxious.
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Hi, I’m new here!! I’m praying I don’t get judged for this. But, back in late May of 2022 ( literally right before I graduated high school), I added this one random girl from my school on Snapchat. She posted something about a graduation party , so I swiped up on her story basically saying how I can’t believe we’re almost graduated. She replied and we had a really short and simple conversation. The next day ( i believe) , we started talking a lot , and I just so happened to see her at the highschool when we were grabbing our graduation outfits and doing the rehearsal. When I saw her irl, I kinda got turned off ( I heard she was kinda crazy) , and on top of that , she was a little ugly irl. I remember seeing her Snapchat bio , and she was close friends with my female cousin ( a year younger than me) , who I happened to experiment sexually with when I was 10-11 years old. I remember going to work later that day and having sort of a lightbulb flick thought ( it wasn’t a good thought though) , what if my cousin told her about what happened when we were younger? So I started to kind of panic and immediately distanced myself from that girl. I also experimented sexually with one of my female friends when I was 10-11 , and from that day onwards, I’ve been pretty much living in paranoia and a little bit of guilt about someone finding out and my life being ruined . On top of that, It’s gotten worse to now sometimes I wonder if a girl I added off of quick add ( Snapchat) is underage even if they told me they were 18+ or had 18 and above in their bio, and I get so much guilt and anxiety about that. I even had a quick thought last February on what if I did something inappropriate with my younger cousin when I was 15-16 but I just can’t exactly remember when it happened , and it still eats me alive when I think about it, because I don’t know if it happened or not. I’m sorry for the long vent, I just wish I felt normal again. No matter how much I try to do things that old me used to do, life always feels “ off”. I always kept the top part about when I was younger a secret up until early (ish ) 2024, then I vented to one of my best friends and he told me that that’s a normal thing to do at a young age. Since then, I have told multiple friends and they all say they did similar stuff, but my brain just can’t accept that. Please help me, I quite literally overthink everything nowadays. 2021 was the last full year that I felt normal ( coincidentally, the best year of my life so far) . It’s not just about sexual related things either, sometimes I’ll wonder if I messed up something at work or hit a car while driving/hit someone and drove off. I just wanna live my life how I was supposed to live it after highschool ( carefree and happy) before whatever it is ( I think it’s ocd) hit me unexpectedly. Thanks to anyone who read this , I just needed to pour it out regardless of how negative I felt typing this, I hope someone can relate , because I feel so alone in my head at times.
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