Anyone else late-diagnosed?
I'm 32 and was diagnosed a few weeks ago. It's been really hard to accept how much of my life has been affected negatively by OCD and the paranoia and anxiety that comes from it. Just sad about it.
I’m sorry to hear this, I hope you are able to cope with everything and be able to move on
Thank you king silly!
Yes, I was 36 when I was diagnosed in 2022. I can look back on my life and see OCD moments all throughout. At first there was a lot of guilt and shame involved, but thru therapy with NOCD I have learned to love myself and heal. You have to start with forgiving yourself and allowing grace. Recovery is possible!
Thank you very much
Yes, I was diagnosed recently at age 34. I totally hear you on the sadness. I have a good bit of grief reflecting on how much OCD has negatively impacted my life. There has also been relief to know that other people have the same thoughts/behaviors that I do. It makes me feel a lot less alone.
Same. I couldnt believe how others had the exact same issues and sadly we don't talk about it much
Wondering if anyone is in the same boat… For a bit of background, I’m 21 now and am away at university and have finally taken the first steps towards getting mental health help, but I can’t help but wonder why none of my many signs of ocd were caught by those around me sooner 😕 Beginning at around the age of 8 years old (maybe even younger to be honest) I had a compulsion to step on cracks just the right way, if I didn’t step on the very middle of the crack I would stop, go back and do it over again. If I turned my head around once, I needed to do it on the other side to be even, same thing with bumping into doors or walls, if I did it to one arm I needed to go back and do it to the other for symmetry. At school during quizzes or assessments I was almost always the last one done as I would double check my answers 10-20 times as a compulsion. My biggest was and still is knocking on wood three times, at my worst I was doing this from 50-100 times a day. Needless to say some of these (plus many many more) were pretty obvious, and looking back now I’m just kind of frustrated that no adults noticed and, if they did, especially during my younger years, that therapy or ERP wasn’t considered or suggested. I’m in a place now where I’m finally able to seek out mental health support myself, however it’s just frustrating there’s a 7 month wait list at my school when this likely could’ve been addressed over a decade earlier 😔
How do we accept this horrible diagnosis of OCD?? i’m struggling.. when i was 19 I was at peace and happy that it was a name for what I was dealing with.. but i’m no longer happy.. i feel like i’m in a prison.. and I can’t get out, this thing has taken so many years of my life. Y’all i’m struggling
I’m 29 which I know isn’t always considered old but something I have been really struggling with is this feeling of relief of getting diagnosed and at the same time frustration of how it was undiagnosed for so long. And how glaring obvious it was. Or in my case written off as GAD. When deep down I knew it was something more. It felt like I did a lot of advocating for my symptoms but was never validated. I did talk therapy implemented all the skills but felt like a failure because my obsessions weren’t subsiding. Finding NOCD has been beyond validating. To have this online community of wonderful people who truly get it. And to be educated that obsessions that I thought were rare and oddly specific were common in OCD. As well as the other things I have ruminated on now I know also being OCD. I guess what I’m trying to put out there is if anyone has experienced or has advice on moving through frustrations and into just pushing through.
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