OCD causes

curious—does OCD have to be something you are just born with or are there underlying causes which could either cause or worsen your case??

Cinnamoroll

Date posted: 1y

I’m not sure if there’s any definitive research backing the origin of OCD itself, but I imagine that the ways our brains are structured play a factor into it. Similar to how depression can be a cause of neurological differences in the brain (a difficulty to produce happy chemicals), I think anxiety, OCD, and many other mental illnesses follow that same pattern. A propensity to misread threats and a difficulty in regulating mood. Environmental factors absolutely come into play, however. I was emotionally neglected for most of my life and raised to always be distrustful. It absolutely contributed to my OCD. My partner thinks that my upbringing is what CAUSED my OCD! Not quite sure on that, however, since I started experiencing symptoms at as young of an age as I can remember.

ivrec

Date posted: 1y

There is pandas, a weird name for developing OCD after having a strep infection. I have heard of head trama and genetics too. Bottom line erp can retrain your brain to recognize these thoughts and anxiety from these intrusive thoughts as false alarms that can be dismissed.

Sitwithit

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

My psychiatrist told me it's biological and environmental. The book freedom from obsessive compulsive disorder by Jonathan Grayson tells you all. And it really give you a good understanding of erp.

Joe87

Date posted: 23w

Where did your OCD come from?

So I have been trying to work out over the past 5 years where my OCD come from and have began to realise that ruminating on where it comes from is actually a compulsion in itself. I believe mine come from having a low self esteem and a lot of stress in my life at that time. I then attended talking therapy to try and understand my feelings and intrusive thoughts and all this did was fuel the OCD further because trying to assign meaning to the thoughts is actually the opposite of what we should do. Does anyone else feel like they know what triggered there OCD?

RaRaRa

Date posted: 22w

Anxiety can provoke OCD? Genuine question

This is not for reassurance btw! I was talking with a friend of mine about our disorders, she has depressive and anxiety issues while I'm saving for an therapist who can take me seriously I told her about my suspects of ocd and she told me she also had ocd and she's now cured, and I was like uhhhh it's that possible you get cured just like that??? She told she has the compulsions of checking the stove was off, the lights were off and eating her nails, then she said her therapist told her ocd is provoke by anxiety which is something I get but I'm not sure at all you just can erase ocd just like that and also provoke it. Like, is not an switch who you can turn on and off I know anxiety makes people to have certains compulsions but once again I'm just here to ask Sorry if this sounds mean, I'm here to learn

julia204

Date posted: 18w

CPTSD & OCD

Anyone else here with complex trauma and ocd? How did u find they correlate with each other? Possibly the trauma causing ocd? Have you found any mind blowingly obvious connections? Healing your trauma helps with ocd symptoms? I recently found out I have cptsd and have been abused by my family growing up physically and verbally. Btw still living with them and my ocd gets significantly worse or better sometimes.I have so many questions.❤️‍🩹

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