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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
Only three people know about my OCD besides my mom, therapist and psychiatrist. My English teacher, orchestra teacher and best friend are the only people I’ve told and the only reason I told my English and orchestra teachers are because I am going to miss their class every other week. I want people to know, but then I also don’t. I don’t want to be known as the kid with OCD and get teased about a serious mental illness that people think is just liking things organized. But then I also think it would help people to understand why I do what I do. So I can definitely relate.
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- 5y ago
my best friend, one of my writing partners and my mum know about it. my mum's always been supportive and my writing partner and friend both have similar mental health issues. im planning to tell my (for lack of a better term) "love interest" and im so scared, so i feel you. i don't want her to misunderstand (when i tried to tell my counsellor and she didn't get it which stressed me out so much)
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- 5y ago
Pretty much all my friends and family know about it, my boyfriend and 4-5 best friends no everything though
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- 5y ago
I can relate to this so much, yeah any really close friends of mine know as do my family , but so far telling new people is something I’ve been avoiding mostly because I find I’ll be more tempted to ask them for reassurance for my spikes. But it’s hard to open up about it and it’s something although I do want to work to end the stigma of , I also want the option of having a certain degree of privacy with
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- 5y ago
My boyfriend and my parents know, but that’s about it. I feel like I put up such a good show that people don’t ever realize that I’m struggling. I’ve been debating whether or not I want to tell more people about it, but I still feel like there’s a lot of stigma :/
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- 18w ago
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- 8w ago
Has anyone experienced their reputation affected or misunderstood because of a societally taboo OCD theme? Others catching wind of your obsessions and misinterpreting it, assuming the worst? I’m intentionally keeping it vague because I don’t want my specific situation to get reassured, but it’s been a real tough pill to swallow knowing that people close to me (and anyone else they might talk to) think of me differently. I’m unwilling to share about my OCD because I feel pretty confident it will be taken as an excuse or denial, and feels compulsive and reassurance seeking. Let me know if anyone here has experienced anything like it, how they handled it, exposures you did.
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