Hi everyone! I was recently diagnosed with OCD after realizing my anxiety wasn’t generalized and learning that compulsions aren’t always visual/physical. I’m curious what compulsions you have/had that you didn’t realize were compulsions until you were diagnosed? For example, learning about rumination, reassurance seeking, and picking at skin as compulsions has been really eye-opening to me!
Hello! Recently diagnosed as well! I have a lot of mental compulsions such as reassuring myself or thinking positive thoughts to try and outweigh the bad ones.
Ruminating, reassurance, moral scrupolisty as a theme and fueled compulsion, checking, reassurance seeking, confessing.. All of that. I had no idea that was ocd for 27 years, even with my mother having it my whole life 😞 the awareness wasn't there
And avoidance
confessing being a compulsion was something i never knew. same with reassurance seeking. i never realized my constant need to confess everything i've ever done was actually a symptom. same with checking, my severe rumination, the way i check peoples social media when im scared obsessively, the fact i can't have my phone notifications on because notifications are a trigger that will cause a compulsion was new as well (id never thought of it that way.) just so many things i didn't realize were a part of my OCD.. it's all very new.
I’m going to say this in the sense of stuff I didn’t know were symptoms of OCD that I have: Leg bouncing, tapping excessively on things, noise sensitivity, irritability, extreme boredom, asking for constant reassurance, lack of empathy and emotions and just overall thinking differently to others
Avoidance and skin picking were big ones for me. Or compensating for my thoughts through performing other actions to reassure myself that I am not my thoughts.
what are some of your mental compulsions? I have relationship OCD but I can’t think of many compulsions I have, so does that mean I have pure O?
When and how did you first discover you may have OCD? I'm beginning to think OCD is one of the most understudied, misunderstood mental health issues ever. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder about 6 years ago after I started suffering from panic attacks, but only just recently discovered my condition could be much more specific than that. I've been suffering from intrusive thoughts and complusions since I was a teenager with a variety of themes. And honestly this app and amazing community has opened my eyes to it. I'm curious if anyone else has had an experience like mine where they were just thrown into the general diagnosis category of just having anxiety and/or depression and is only just now coming to terms with having OCD? What has been your experience with the therapists on this app? I'm using another popular, pricey app for talk therapy at the moment, but so far 4 therapists have ghosted me on it so my confidence is feeling pretty shot. Has talk therapy and working with a therapist on here been successful for you?
Hey everyone, so I’ve been diagnosed with and trying to manage OCD for nearly 6 months now and I’m finding it difficult to figure out how to get around my mental compulsions and rumination. It seems harder to me to recognize a mental compulsion over a physical compulsion and to stop doing it, though I’m sure both are equally difficult. Any advice for dealing with these? I’ve been trying to practice may or may not statements but sometimes it’s hard to find the right one. Thanks for your help!
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