Do your parents have OCD too? My mother definitely has it, and some themes I got from her. It’s brutal to have soocd since childhood, I never had those years when I could just live and love... Every crush, every feeling, sensation, glance and thought were always either for or against this theme. I don’t have this good times to go back to, all my relationships were a bit positioned by this doubt. I can’t help but blame my mom who was herself obsessing about her and my sexuality and knew no better than actually telling me all that crazy stuff...

Im not sure,my sister never showed ocd signs but one day she came to our house i was 17 living with my mom and started crying saying she is having panio attacks and has two voices in her head that are out of her control and speak to ger telling her scary things. At that time i had hocd theme but didn't knew i had ocd and i was highly functional so it was heartbreaking seeing her like that i thought she was gonna go crazy. Thankfully she got over that not sure if completely but she isn't mentioning anything and now i took her spot, ironic how life brings it,my father definitely had issues he left us when i was like 6 months because he was scared he was gonna kill my mother and us,he was really abusive towards my mother and he was extremely perfectionist not sure what he had. My first cousin is bipolar and my other one associal (maybe an extreme introvert not sure where i draw the line)so yeah genetically we have some issues.

my mom shows definite signs of ocd but she doesn’t “believe in it” so it’s all the more irritating when i try to ask her about mine!

For me, I can never know because of how mental illness is viewed in my culture. I technically was the first one in my family to get a formal diagnosis so now the chain starts with me ?

Scaredb Thank you, actually my childhood was the best period of my life it was amazing no ocd no bullshit just a kid enjoying life *sign*good times,my father left when i was young so i (thankfully) didn't see or feel any abuse,my life started deteriorating when i hit puberty (13) i suddenly developed social anxiety even though as a kid i was super extroverted and confident than at 15 i developed homosexual ocd so i had a sweet sa ocd combo,i got over sa at around 17 but hocd lasted until 20 where suddenly i developed existamental ocd where i need to be sure people are real that's my theme right now it's the worse i ever got. I know you probably didn't want to learn all that but i wanted to tell that lol

Offcource, i have went to a therapist not erp based thought but im generaly intelligent so i have spended a lot of time learning about ocd and i have done lot of erp on my own so i am pretty good at the moment like the panic period has passed,im not perfect thought but im generaly fine ☺️

My dad and my uncle have OCD. But both sides of my family have severe anxiety which I unfortunately inherited.

My mom seems to show symptoms of OCD but has never been formally diagnosed. Hers seems to be much more mild than mine and different theme but I’m always very positive that seeing her deal with OCD growing up had an effect on the manifestation of mine :P