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How it started ?
I am curious, how your OCD started and how you doubted it was OCD? (It can be any time of OCD)
I am curious, how your OCD started and how you doubted it was OCD? (It can be any time of OCD)
I was born with OCD from genetics, so it’s always been there.
I had OCD as a child but never got proper treatment for it. It wasn’t until earlier this year, I smoked weed on a balcony and was immediately triggered after receiving intrusive thoughts about jumping over while being high. It literally stuck in my brain and I’ve been going through a flare up now for three months. I didn’t think it could ever get this bad but medication and ERP has been helping and I knew if it didn’t happen now it would happen sometime.
I was just wondering, is this OCD?- When I pray, I often keep repeating the same phrase until it feels solid or right. Then I have to move onto the next phrase but not in a way that I lose the first phase/the effect of it in me so I have to start again. For example I'm praying to God 'please help my dad to never get cancer' lots of times and then quickly moving onto 'if I break any promises to you god please help them not to count, I'm sorry for ever making them' but if I feel like I've lost the cancer bit I have to start again. I'll feel good after doing it and then start doing a task and then have to do it again.
@Anonymous Let me ask you, did this intrusive thought felt like an urge ? Like you were going to do the intrusive thought ?
@Anonymous I think it sounds like OCD but it is important to talk with some one how is a specialist in OCD to diagnosed and help you with that! 😊
@Anyone123 Sorry, I'm not really sure what you mean by an urge!! But it does feel like I should do it
@Anyone123 Also I cant really afford/access therapy right now so I'm just trying to do the best I can with this app :)
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I'm so sorry you are going through this :( it's not a reflection of you, OCD just attacks what we value the most. I hope you feel better soon!!
had perfectionism and ocd with my acrobatic tricks for years along with real event ocd for a few years whixh manifested to much worse for this past year which began through covid 19 and PANS
I started when I watched a video about schizophrenia in 9th grade, and then idk it just spiraled and I was fine for years and then one day in senior year of highschool I panicked that I was a serial killer and it turns out I was having severe harm ocd.
For me it was a weird intrusive thought and after that I slowly started developing anxiety and I felt a weird thing like I was losing my attraction to girls. Then I woke up one day in complete panic cuz it felt like I had lost feelings for girls suddenly and I started searching online how to know if you’re gay if sexuality changes suddenly and I took some gay tests or sexuality tests online. Chat gpt was a big thing back then too. That was before therapy and before I knew what ocd is.Can anyone relate?
Since when do you believe you have OCD? Anyone who would like to share what were the indications/symptoms in childhood?
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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