When did it all start?

I never realized until last year that I had OCD, but in the months since self-diagnosing with my therapist, I've realized I've had it for most of my life. I think it began to develop around age 7 for me, not long after my mother had her first brain surgery (correlation, much? 😂)

Like 5/6

Early high school is when I can think back to moments where I showed signs of

when i was very little i was diagnosed. id have to set my stuffed animal on my body a certain way and flip his ears to the right spot an even amount of times or id feel like something bad would happen to my family. that’s where it all started lol

my mother has ocd. She noticed many things i did as a child, but instead of thinking of them as ocd, she just thought of them as things she could “teach out of me” she has a psych degree so in some ways she definitely made my ocd way less worse than it could’ve been, but in other ways growing up i just developed ocd symptoms she either couldn’t catch (internal) or thought was normal kid stuff (avoiding tiles, stressing about tests, existential questions)but my youngest thoughts are a fear of stepping on dark colored tiles,(age 7) and when it came close to STAAR testing in elementary i used to obsessively count things around me to calm me down, but the counting had to end on a certain number (4th grade)

Around 9/10 but I only found out it was OCD about 2 years ago.

4 months ago 😭 I’m so traumatised I feel like I’m forgetting how normal I was before

i was 19 when i got diagnosed but i suspect that i've had it for awhile

I think 12/13 but I don’t think I understood it was ocd like i actually was convinced i was attracted to my family members and hurt my cat

5-6 years old

I think since I was 8, had a severe episode at 15 and didn’t know or get diagnosed until I was 24. One thing is knowing you have OCD and another thing is living through it. It’s so hard!

My mother says now that she knows I have OCD, she remember seeing compulsive tendencies in me when I was a toddler. I didn't learn that I have OCD until 3 years ago

It started when I was around 12 but it intensified over the past two years when I realized what it was

After giving birth to my first child. Postpartum ocd.

Since I was around 3-4

When I was 8 I was diagnosed! The doctors said I potentially got it from strep throat.

8-9

Around 8 years old…

I was 10 when I was diagnosed, but I had Tics disorder starting around age 5, and signs of OCD at a younger age as well.

Nightmares started at 4

9/10 for me I miss who I was before this menace took over

I have had anxiety and panic attacks my whole life. I remember being in 4th grade having intrusive thoughts and repetitively hand washing. Then it really became noticeable/ more severe from junior high on till my current age I'm 26.