Hi everyone!!! :) I'm new here and I can't wait to post and share and comment with this great community! I want to get to know yall so if you feel comfortable, I'd like yall to tell me about YOU and your experiences with ocd! Here are some questions but feel free to write about whatever youd like! :) Questions about you: 1. What makes you happy? 2. Would you rather visit outer space or visit the past if you had the opportunity, and why? 3. Anything else you'd like to share! Questions about OCD 1. When did you first get diagnosed with OCD/an OC spectrum disorder? 2. How long have you had OCD? What were some of your earliest memories of OCD? 3. Does OCD run in your family? 4. Which kinds of OCD trouble you the most? (i.e. disturbing images, compulsions, religious ocd, letter obsessions that prevent you from saying or writing a certain letter) 5. What are some triumphs that you've had over OCD? If youre new to treating your OCD, what do you hope to accomplish with your treatment? 6. Anything else about your ocd I would love to hear about as well! :) An important step to recovery is being able to talk about ocd so tall away! :) I can't wait to get to know you!

I'm Rachel and I'm 19. Reading, playing toontown, and eating delicious food are all things that make me happy! If I had the opportunity, I would travel to space because it would be truly breathtaking to be there and see how it truly looks! I was first diagnosed with OCD when I was 16, but I have been suffering for literally as long as I can remember! My first memory of OCD was on my 4th birthday so it's been a long, terrible road haha! Even though 100% of the females in my family suffer from some OC spectrum disorder, no one noticed my severe OCD at all, which honestly I feel resentful about. I wish I had known sooner and could have begun treatment sooner. But in my family we have subclinical OCD, compulsive skin picking, severe OCD, tic related OCD (me), and trichotillomania! We're one big OC family haha! The kind of OCD that is the hardest for me is sexual OCD (intrusive thoughts, images, sensations) which are very distressing for me, but I keep fighting them even though they're difficult! I also have a comorbid phobia of wasps that is very related to OCD, and one of my biggest achievements with OCD was walking through a cloud of hundreds of wasps while hiking on a trail! The wasps blocked the way down, so it was either walk through the cloud or stay paralyzed with fear for possibly hours! I was able to accomplish walking through hundreds of wasps because of ERP, and it instilled confidence in me that if I could do that, I could do anything!! Great moments come when you least expect them! :)

1. BBQ and outdoors, 2. The past 3. This is a great post!!!!