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- 1y
I’m a bit worried if I actually have OCD
I have a diagnosis, but I’m still extremely concerned that somehow, even though I fit many symptoms, I’m still faking. I think if I have it, I deal with a number of its faucets and I want to list what I experience with each so maybe if someone’s willing to take the time (it would be greatly appreciated) to see if these are valid experiences with ocd? Contamination (or maybe more health, I’m unsure): The thought of getting sick scares me, whenever I feel nauseous, it’s accompanied by varying amounts of anxiety and thoughts that I’m going to die because of it. My whole life, whenever someone coughs or sneezes or burps in a car or even just breaths close to my face in a small space, I have to hold my breath and I visualize the tainted air and try to minimize breathing as long as it takes due to the extreme anxiety of inhaling the tainted air. I cant even tuck my head into my blankets or under pillows when I sleep because I visualize the air being unable to escape or move and it’s still tainted air, even if it’s my own. I am afraid of rooms with little ventilation, or ventilation units that seem to be putting out bad air. While I am extremely wary/nervous of the idea of being sick, once I am actually sick, I only have a mild sense of anxiety. Yet, the second I’m better, I’m worried about being sick again. I’m especially unusually scared of the freak chance of rabies. I also have a fear of bugs and while bugs in themselves extremely freak me out, them and their relation to diseases, specially mosquitos especially freak me out. Sometimes if I think of bugs while eating, I unwillingly imagine them in my food and drink, and other times can just feel imaginary bugs crawling on my skin. I know they aren’t real but it’s just such a strong anxiety that they are and I can FEEL them. Harm OCD: I have occasional thoughts of hurting people I love for no reason, usually stabbing if that’s any different? These thoughts/compulsions are sometimes a bit stronger, but I know that I would absolutely never do it, but the compulsions are still there and I get lost in thought deeper about what happens after, ect. Ect and it causes me extreme anxiety, knowing I wouldn’t but normal people don’t think about that??? I think??? I’m not evil and I’m not a bad person I think???? But more often than not it’s constant intrusive thoughts (i believe that’s the term? Please correct me if I’m wrong I know that term is used out of context a ton) in daily life about horrendous things happening and me and my loved ones dying. In the car? I’m visualizing us getting into a horrendous crash because we could easily pop a tire and ram into the concrete barrier, and oh god his arm is out the the window and all I can see is the horrendous scraping of flesh against concrete and his arm being flayed and skinned than crushed as we flip. It’s always the worst in the car. While I love amusement rides, I can’t help but think that this is it. This is the ride out of thousands that makes the news for violently multilating and slowly and agonizingly killing all of its riders in some freak accident. It’s gonna be me and my loved ones. I also struggle with compulsions of self harm, I used to be actively suicidal due to other actual reasons, but even though I no longer want to die or harm myself I sometimes get super strong urges to light my limbs on fire, or stick my finger in burning hot oil, or scratch my skin off, or stick my hand under scolding water, or cut myslef with razor blades for absolutely no reason at all. I also don’t know if this is OCD or some symptom of the other mental illnesses I struggle with, but I am constantly telling myself that everyone around me secretly hates me, thinks of me horrendously and is only pretending to be with me and care for me out of some unknown reason, if it’s family it’s forced and if it’s friends it’s because they don’t know how to leave me. I think that may be some more PSTD but I figured I’d mention it if anyone else related. I’ve been going back and forth for months with this, but since I lack more acting on compulsions in my head, and it’s more of well… just.. obsession, I’ve literally been thinking and going back and forth for months on whether I actually have OCD or not and have simply been misdiagnosed. I’m happy to answer any more questions if needed in the comments. This has been causing me a lot of anxiety for the past few months, and even though all the professionals I’ve seen say I fit it, I want some feedback from others who actually suffer from it. :]