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.
My daughter was just diagnosed with OCD, and is in denial. Her brother is the source of contamination for her. Everything he does, triggers her. She will not be in the same room as him, and it's only getting worse. If you were a child in denial, refusing medication and therapy, what helped you to finally accept help?
My little sister is 13 we’ve taken her to a child psychologist and she was diagnosed with OCD and social anxiety and I believe germaphobia. The psychologist said that he can’t properly diagnose her with autism until her anxiety symptoms are treated. But I am very positive that she is also autistic as I am autistic and know the symptoms vary well. She was given a medication at a low dose, I don’t remember what kind, she had been taking it even tho she did not want to for a couple of months. It seemed to be helping her anxiety immensely but I believe she is scared of how the medication changes how she feels and she doesn’t like the taste. So they switched medications and that one was even worse because the taste was too strong she didn’t even try it for more than a day so there’s no way of knowing if that one was better for her or not. These are both liquid medications btw we used juice for her to drink it. Since then she hasn’t taken any medication and she has said that she doesn’t want to. We can’t force her to take the medication as that would obviously be counter productive. But since then her ocd and germaphobia have gotten progressively worse. On top of not wanting medication she doesn’t like the idea of using any coping skills like deep breaths or breathing exercises to calm down and doesn’t like the idea when I talk about ERP or therapy or any kind of treatment that could help. It seems all the ideas either make her uncomfortable or scare her. I fear somewhat that my own ocd compulsions have made her think that this is normal and doesn’t need treatment and I don’t know what to do to help understand that treatment and change isn’t scary. I also fear that I’m not approaching this right and my mom doesn’t understand ocd like I do so I feel like it falls on me to help her through this and help my mom understand what we need to do to help her. I’m sorry this is so long. thank you for reading this. She’s really struggling and it’s affecting my own mental health too and I don’t know what to do. If anyone has any tips or advice please that’s all I’m asking for.
Hi all, I would really appreciate some advice on how you told a loved one about having ocd, specifically a significant other. I’ve been with mine for over 5 years, and I just had a recent diagnosis of OCD. To be honest, with the subtype I have, it’s really crippling to deal with, and I have a major worry of my partner not understanding the subtype. I would love to get some advice on how to best approach it and how to provide understanding that I’m still the same person. Thanks!
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