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- 6y
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- 6y
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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- 6y
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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- 6y
Pretty much all my friends and family know about it, my boyfriend and 4-5 best friends no everything though
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- 6y
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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- 6y
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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- 20w
Please if someone can reply! I really just need someone to talk to. I don’t even know how to control my OCD. It honestly feels like it’s controlling me. Everyday my mind focuses on every bodily sensation I have and it’s like a broken record player, I have horrible health anxiety and my OCD just makes it worst just thinking about it everyday. It feels like everyone who I explain it to looks at me like I’m stupid/crazy. I use to be much more tame with my OCD, I use to eat things without worry, now I can’t even touch things I use to eat without worrying that I’ll get an allergic reaction (despite eating them BEFORE,,,but my mind tells me otherwise) and omg worrying about heart attacks, pulmonary issues..and I couldn’t even enjoy my own child’s birth because my mind was on high alert thinking I would hemorrhage any second or develop pre-E (complications of postpartum) I was miserable for the first couple of months of my baby’s life and I didn’t know what to do. And now, I’m pregnant with my second (4wks) and all the OCD thoughts and anxiety is coming back at me and I have no one to talk to, I feel lonely. And even if I considered taking a pill, I’d worry about being allergic to it and refusing to take it. I ruin everything for everyone. I remember I ate out one night and I started to think “you’re gonna pass out! You’re gonna pass out! (Without ever passing out before) and I had to leave! I feel like I ruin the mood for everyone when I don’t even try to, and I hate it.
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- 13w
If you are anything like me (and most of you are, because let’s face it, we are all on this chat), you have OCD. Real OCD, not the organisation, matching colours everyone thinks it is. Real OCD. I’ve always known I was different, known that my brain does some waking things and deep down, I’ve always known I’ve had OCD. But there is just something that changes when you finally get the diagnosis. It makes more sense, you have an explanation for your behaviours. So naturally I told my friends. When they ask why I had to stop and step four times on a tile I said ‘oh, I have OCD’. I finally had a word, a tangible concept that I could explain to people. But nobody warned me about the massive misconceptions about OCD. Instead of support or acceptance, my friends seemed to question the diagnosis saying ‘that’s not ocd, don’t you just like things organised?’. And no matter how much I explain it they don’t seem to get it. And that’s the part that feels so cruel. I go through hell in my head and it can all be reduced to a phrase of ‘oh, aren’t you organised’. So please be careful out there you guys, and if someone try’s to downplay your experience, know that you are valid and that what you are going through is probably something that they could never handle. It’s a lesson that took me time to learn, but it’s important because our experience matters. Our real experience.
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- 11w
Sometimes I feel like nobody really gets me. Nobody knows what’s going on in my head. I try to explain in vivid detail, but my ocd immediately reads the other persons face and registers that they don’t get it. It’s a very isolating experience. Anyone else have something like this?
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