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how did you learn you had OCD?
lets share with each other 🙏✨
lets share with each other 🙏✨
I got dog noses as a kid because my mom noticed it.
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I want dog nosesssss 🐶 but jokes aside that's so lovely Ur mom noticed and you got help 🙏✨
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I started experiencing SO-OCD all of a sudden and was terrified, so I decided to look up what I was experiencing and lo and behold 🥁 it was OCD. Then I realized that I’ve had it as a child but had no idea.
:0 thank U for sharing 🙏 that must have been a shock and a half 😲 ❤️
A therapist introduced me to the pureochrissie's account, and from then I just related and related..
oh thank u 🙏 I'll have a look at purochrissie 😊
In 2020,thanks to Google, I was debating with myself if it's GAD or OCD, turned out it was OCD all along
aaah I can relate, I was diagnosed with SAD but they though it could be OCD 😅 brains are funny like that
As a kid I had strange thoughts that scared me, so I researched and found OCD asked my school counselor if she thought I had it. She said no because I didn’t do any compulsions like cleaning, but that she definitely thought I had intrusive thoughts. I didn’t go to her after that, and after years of looking for therapy, I was finally diagnosed in about five minutes after I told them my symptoms. The reason the school counselor didn’t see my compulsions were because they were all mental compulsions and she didn’t think that mental compulsions were a thing. I knew for years that I had it, but it took years for someone to listen to me.
🤗✨ aww yeah it can be so frustrating dealing with people who don't fully understand the depth of mental conditions. I'm so happy for you that you found a place to get properly diagnosed 🙏❤️
I actually figured out because I had this panic attack that lasted for days. I was sent to emergency. People there started saying that this sounds like intrusive thoughts. As it was such a common term I did not think I was like a real “disease”. I looked up the thoughts I had and came to a site that had examples of rocd thoughts and I felt like this is me. I listened to the podcast fearcast and then it all made sense that this is ocd!
oh wow that sounds like an awful experience 😔 but I'm proud of you for doing the research and figuring it out 💪😤 ✨
A friend introduced me to a musician called NF. I listened to his stuff and we both kinda filled in the gaps I was searching for for years. I thought I had a lot of things growing up but nothing quite fit like ocd. Got therapy and was diagnosed quickly
thank U for sharing Wolfram 🙏😊 I know this artist 😄
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being crazy is totally normal it's the normal ones that are crazy 😜 but that is so interesting to me personally, my grandmother was always obsessed with cleanliness to the point she cleans the entire house 3 times a day. She might be undiagnosed OCD 🤔 if you don't mind me asking how oldish were you when U were diagnosed? it sounds like you spent a long time before figuring it out 🤗✨❤️ I study philosophy so I am very intimately familiar with rumination :P
Sought perfection in life from about the age of 13 and avoided a lot as a result of it. Looking back it was an attempt to gain certainty around not being socially anxious, being at my best socially etc. - It then developed and developed, but because of the nature of OCD, I was in complete denial: 'Just this next week, I'll go over the last of my thoughts and then I can finally stop holding myself back' - The final week I tried to do this, I got stuck on a horrible intrusive thought around a disgusting video I watched 2 years ago. It was the thought spiral of justifying that I'd fully watched it so I would know I didn't have to watch it again that made my life fall apart: I incorrectly believed that I had to resolve this dilemma, or the next time I went into work I would be terrible socially (and since I was trying to move on from it all, thought I would be stuck like this forever). Cue blind panic, where I forced myself to watch this horrific video again just to get rid of the potential ambiguity and uncertainty, which led to more compulsions and more compulsions until I was struggling like I'd never struggled before. Then I couldn't deny it anymore and got professional help.
I was always fearful of becoming sick with a disease when I was older in high school. I was constantly worried about things I may have done while drinking and not remembering. Then constantly checking things in the dorms in college to make sure no one was putting something in places that would be there to harm me. Checking once wasn’t enough. I checked something over and over again even when I could visibly see nothing was there. I knew it was absolutely ocd at that point In college when I couldn’t feel ok with just checking something once. So I went to a therapist and then eventually started medication so I was never diagnosed by a doctor officially but knew it was OCD when I looked at all of the symptoms I had and after speaking with my therapist she agreed it was OCD like I had thought. Funny story is that I guess my first “ritual” started in middle school when I started to count the deodorant strokes underneath each armpit. lol. I still do that to this day but it doesn’t debilitate my life. I just do a certain amount of strokes because I feel smelly if I don’t use that amount lol.
Started to refuse to eat because I was convinced it would make me puke. My uncle has it so my mom knew exactly what it was. Then later this year I got diagnosed with depression and am in therapy again. I have ADHD and suspected autism but thank you for asking❤️
I watched a video about this girl with OCD it was from Special Books by Special kids
Hi, I’m new to this app and newly diagnosed. Question for you all, What things did you normalize and do without a second thought that when diagnosed, you realized was actually your OCD? Mine was how concerned with germs I am. I hold my breath when I open a door so the rush of wind doesn’t infect my lungs from whatever is in the room. I thought everyone was really careful and concerned like me. But Ive learned it’s not normal the lengths I go to. What was yours?
OCD is so much more than just being 'neat' or 'organized'—it’s relentless, exhausting, and often deeply misunderstood. The intrusive thoughts, the compulsions, the anxiety—it can feel like a never-ending cycle that others just don’t seem to get. Many of us have had experiences where even therapists didn’t fully grasp the depth of our struggles. I myself faced difficulty being misdiagnosed and my talk therapist not understanding the full extent of what I was going through until I found NOCD. So many prior therapists wrote off my symptoms as general anxiety, not realizing it was actually OCD all along. If you could sit down with a therapist who truly wanted to understand, what do you wish they knew about OCD?
Last year during April I started to experience groinal responses when I looked at kids. I was terrified of what it could mean and decided to attempt two weeks later. The very next day I had those responses I decided to attempt. I didn’t really have the courage to do so at that time but I started experiencing images about disturbing things done to kids and as days went by it got worse. April 16 was the last straw and I couldn’t take it anymore. I ended up in a mental hospital but before I ended up there I had searched up what I was experiencing. That’s when I started to understand that it was OCD. I felt relieved for a few moments until I felt the urge to get more information. I saw lots and lots of things and many comments saying that it wasn’t normal and that people who went through this were disgusting people who shouldn’t be allowed to roam free. That’s when my anxiety and fear became worse and I tried to get rid of it but nothing worked. I shook the entire time I was awake, I didn’t have motivation for anything anymore, I just felt so disgusting. In the end, I’m so glad I ended up in that mental hospital or else I wouldn’t be here with my friends and family. Thank you for reading my story, I’m so glad that I’m not alone
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