I'm writing a story about a little girl with ocd. In the first chapter she does not know she has it, what subtypes should be shown and when and where that gets her family a bit concerned.
Maybe she takes super long showers? Or she starts getting very anxious when her stuff isn’t in order (like, she lines/puts everything a certain way and when it gets moved or the pattern is broken, she doesn’t like it). Or she washes her hands constantly after touching anything or certain things like door handles.
I was thinking about the hand washing!
My ocd started as a child, I didn’t know what it was but from what I remember I started confessing. I would confess random things to my parents that I was so extremely guilty about that it’s all I thought of everyday. I remeber I went through a phase of using cuss words at school to sound cool and then months later started freaking out that I ever did it to the point where I would write letters to my mom about what i did or text messages and hide in the other room until she read them. Then it turned into things like “if you don’t touch this object 5 times then xyz will happen” and that compulsion ultimately relieved my anxiety for a few minutes until another thought would come about and I knew that the only thing I could do to relieve that anxiety even for a minute was to perform the compulsion of touching an object 5 times to the point where it spiraled out of control and I was in a constant state of tapping/touching things, saying reassuring thoughts under my breath, disassociating, and getting angry when people would interrupt my process of eliminating said anxiety. However my parents were never concerned due to other problems going on at home and it just got worse as a grew up. Now it’s terrible and I have the worst thoughts about any and everything at the age of 23. Anyways I think you get the idea, you can realize that something is illogical but if your brain attaches emotion to a bad thought or action it’s debilitating and without help it might not end.
Oh ik I have ocd too. I'm late teens so ik how mine was a child, I just wanted to see if anyone had any subtypes or things they didn't find were represented often
Wanting to jump out of moving vehicles. Reaching for the door handle everything she is in the car. I used to have that. It got so bad when I was 13 I almost did it once. It was painful physically to refrain too. Obsessively picking at scabs.
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