Yo! So I have ocd, but nobody I know has it. Idk who to talk to or what to do. Could ya’ll share your experiences? How do you work it out and ”get rid” of it? I just started to snus which helps me at the moment. But this ocd shit is killing me Could y’all share your stories or how you deal with it and ”cure” it? I’m 16 - soon 17 btw. A guy. Ts is draining me
I’m happy to share my experience, though my understanding is that there is a very effective treatment—ERP, and meds can also help, but not a “cure.” With ERP it becomes so much easier to deal with. I struggle mostly with “pure o” OCD, so I have a lot of mental compulsions and rumination, but I do some checking too. I used to not be able to drive for the longest time because I was convinced I’d kill people. A lot of my OCD themes are around harming myself or others, or contamination, but honestly, just about everything. But I’ve learned a lot from therapy honestly. I tried a bunch of other stuff but exposures and breathing exercises helped the most for me, and anxiety aids, at times, like fidgets,
There is no “working it out” or curing it. But you can do ERP therapy and get control over it to the point where it basically doesn’t affect you. I highly recommend getting therapy with a specialist. NOCD is great for therapy if they take your insurance.
@OutstandingCutieDisorder Yeah so the thing is I don’t live in the US doe
@noccovelo The international ocd foundation has a global search tool to help you find a specialist in your area
Okay, since you’re young, I’ll give you some advice. I also had OCD at your age, and now I’m 18. The thing is, if you don’t treat it, it can stay with you for many years. But if you start treatment early, you will feel relief and be able to continue your life. Also, because you’re young, your neural connections are more flexible, so it’s easier to work on them. You have the chance to start exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy, and I recommend seeing a therapist and beginning ERP treatment. You can also work on yourself by making a schedule and gradually exposing yourself to your fears. Also, quit smoking, because it will make things worse by increasing guilt. And if you watch pornography, stop that too, because it will make OCD worse, as it reinforces feelings of guilt and strengthens obsessive thoughts about guilt. Do sports, as it will help improve your mood. Try to write down your compulsive actions and the situations that make you anxious. Then gradually expose yourself to them — just sit with the anxiety, accept the thoughts, and delay your response. Depending on the type of OCD you have — sexual or otherwise, whether it’s mental or behavioral — there are many steps you can take to improve.
Shii, okay brother. Thanks. I’ll keep you updated, all love ❤️ appreciate u
So I’m 16 years old, currently going through my sophomore year of highschool. I’ve recently quit nicotine and weed after chronic use for about 4 years (has affected my development extremely). I quit because I wanted a better life for myself because I knew that I was using nicotine and weed for short term happiness and long term made me very depressed about this life. I was also experiencing trouble concentrating on simple tasks and what I wanted to do currently in my life. Which was learning about life and having more knowledge about life in general so i could feel more comfortable and happy in the future. So I quit nicotine I thought I was going to be able to overcome it and be more comfortable with myself knowing that I’m not in a constant loop of short term happiness, long term making me less happy overall. Although I have quit nicotine and haven’t touched it in about 3 weeks I expected to have some major withdrawals because I’m still in adolescence and used nicotine about everyday for 4 years. Sorry I’m rambling about this but through those years of always suppressing my anxiety with nicotine when anything came up that triggered it. I started noticing that on vacation in very stressful moments like at the airport and there were people around me when using the bathroom I felt as though it was nearly impossible to go but after sometime I eventually went and shrugged it off. Now that I’ve quit though I’m my 4th week it’s almost like my brain really latched onto that fear of not being able to go around people publicly (paruresis shy bladder syndrome) and that’s also what addiction does to you I’ve acknowledged. But when I started coming home from school I started thinking about not being able to pee more and more to the point i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since which now every time i feel a slight trigger of having to use the bathroom i start obsessing over it like everything I would try and do that i usually do my brain would draw me away from it and go back to the fear of not being able to go which created a lot of anxiety and thoughts like “would if im not able to stop going” which made me think about it more and more I would just wake up with that thought in my head each day to the point where i was really thinking about killing my self because I thought i would have such a better life without nicotine and weed but ultimately made me feel like i was going crazy and I really wanted to go back to vaping and weed but i knew that this was the cycle of addiction and that i may have a more underlying problem here i need to overcome somatic ocd. I haven’t been diagnosed with it yet and I know a lot of people go through a cycle of self diagnosing. But as I’ve slowly started to mentally figure out ways to get through this obsession over peeing and fight it, it’s like my brain is now trying to look for a new bodily sensation to obsess over. My breathing. I noticed this as well while using that sometimes I would think about my breathing a little bit to much for example saying to myself am I breathing right should I breath this certain way would if I can’t stop thinking about it. But as I was thinking about that I just hit my vape talked to my brother about it and just slept it off. Now that I don’t have a vape I’ve had to go through these expierences but with it feeling more real and not really having something to run to, to suppress like my vape. I’m writing this today as I feel better to myself talking about it and opening up about it as I’m trying to not respond to this fear with anxiety and go throughout my days ignoring these obsessive thoughts leading to extreme anxiety that I don’t have anything to suppress it with anymore besides my own mental. Maybe someone here will have some more knowledge about it than I do and can give me some advice to try to keep me more motivated to deal with this ocd I feel as though I’m having so I don’t end up in a dark place. Thank you.
Is there a therapist or a specialist on here that I can briefly chat with? Or maybe an OCD conqueror who’s very familiar with the disorder? I need an experienced person to talk to me so bad. I just really wanna talk to somebody about what I’m going through so that I feel less alone, and so I can maybe get help managing my symptoms. Thank you in advance ♥️
I'm sry if this may make people worry or feel uncomfortable in advance! Hello everyone as u can see I struggle with ocd and I HATE IT WITH MY LIFE , it started in 2020 covid obv contamination ocd started here , I used to carry alcohol everywhere and used to wash my hands so much that it bled ( had to wear gloves to cover it so friends or family won't see it ) and everything else started since then , harm ocd with myself or friends I couldn't hold a knife..it was really hard..and I have unwanted sexual thoughts ocd , I have panic attacks bc of this..I sometimes cannot look people into their eyes and its so random and so scary..thoughts about.. 🍇..whether it's me or I'm gonna harm someone else uk..I sometimes cannot function properly.. unfortunately friends don't understand it rather think it's about " perfectionism "..I wrote those thoughts and stuff in a journal in more details ofc and doodle ( I'm scared someone will find it ) I hate myself tbh and I don't think someone will read this... I suspect I have ADHD with all this but ocd is " ur faking it " even though lots of people have hinted about it , I thought I actually killed someone for 2 years a girl..until I realized what HOCD is , I thought I faked my ocd too in fact , I have perfectionism ocd too it's bad and I HATE PURE O it's so DRAINING uk.. also idk if this has caused a problem for anyone but if y'all know the Truman show ( basically if u don't know the main character is being filmed and his life is fake and he doesn't know it ) THAT MOVIE HAS HARMED ME SO BADLY FOR YEARS that until today I have to check in the bathroom if there are cameras cuz like ocd makes me think I'm living in a fake world , I used to think people around me , everyone was like a Ai model or smth.. everytime until today I have to clean the toilet seat bc it may be dirty..I have been taking up to 5 showers a day cuz maybe I'm dirty..that's it for today tysm if u read this till the end I'd like to know ur thoughts if u got tips or have similar experiences ! 🤗 U get a chocolate bar 🍫 bc u earned it bc ik how ocd is so frustrating ( I also noticed everyone who has ocd is so nice right 😆! )
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