katietaylorsillygoose69
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- 1y
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 Cinnamoroll
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- 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.
ivrecivrec
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- 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.
SitwithitSitwithit
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 43w
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.
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Anonymous
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- 21w
Question: What causes OCD. Nature and/or Nurture?
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geodrimilis
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- 21w
Can I be born with ocd?
So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
Joe87
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- 10w
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?
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