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Well I had ocd when I was younger and it got pretty bad towards the end of high-school. Somthing that I used to do. Was have a code word for my trusted friends or family to let them know I'm having trouble. Not saying it's the same as me but things that tend to hit me is things I watch. When I get scared or underpressure. It can be overwhelming. I used to freak out over imagining the joker walking towards me when I was younger. That was because of me watching batman and the thought was overwhelming so I would cry and yell. hope some of this helped. Good luck
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Thanks for you comment. Yes, we are working with an ERP therapist. We don‘t fight all her compulsion at once. We talk to her therapist how we can phase out family accomandation. Somedays it works great , but on other days she will totally loose control: beating her little brother, screaming and biting. Because of her behaviour she doesn‘t have any friends - so unless she is at school-we are spending the whole day and the weekends with her. We actually take turns spending time with her so eyeryone can relax for once...
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You are so so so strong. She is so lucky to have you.
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Thank you for your comment. The problem is she is involving us in her compulsions. When we don‘t support her compulsions, she gets anger attacks. But supporting her compulsions will make the ocd worse.
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Do you know what type of ocd she has. Like what she mainly does or thinks or reacts to
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She is mostly afraid of germs and bacteria. For example she will ask us to wash our socks before entering her room or her jacket cannot touch another jacket. If we don’t follow her „rules“ she will freak out. But it is hard to guess of she is ready to cope with the anxiety. In the morning she will say it is ok and in the evening she suddently cannot handle it....
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Wow. How old is she?
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8 years old ?
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No need for a sad face... I'm no expert but the violence as you put it will probably go on for a while as she grows used to the feeling she gets when the jackets touch or the socks aren't washed. It's a process and it can be overwhelming but with the guidance of a therapist she can get started at a younger age and hopefully be able to control and keep calm as she gets older. Tough process but there is stuff out there for her to get any help she needs. Even for parents it's stressful but her knowing your by her side through all of it will help tremendously. It seems like you really want to figure out and plan out how you can take this down together taking her to therapy, trying to find out more about it, and your doing a great job because of that. I'll pray for her God bless. Head up. You guys got this
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Thanks for your support. We will keep fighting the ocd....
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OCD is harder to manage when you are tired, so it might be harder for her to tolerate things in the evening. Are you working with an ERP therapist? They usually have you develop a “hierarchy” by ranking things in order of how much anxiety they give you. Then you start with tackling the easier things first. If you’re trying to fight all of her “rules” all at once it might be too much and might be counterproductive. Start with the small stuff first. It will still be very very hard, but that’s normal. Learning to tolerate the anxiety and not engage in compulsions to relieve it is part of recovery. If you aren’t currently working with an ERP therapist I would highly suggest it if you are at all able. I would also recommend the book “Freedom from OCD” by Dr. Grayson. It’s a good way to plan steps for recovery. You are so so so strong for trying to help her through this. I know it must hurt to see her upset. None of this is your fault. It’s a long process so be patient and remember to show yourself some compassion and take care of yourself too ❣️
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❤️ We try our best
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My son has Pure O religious/scrupulosity with GAD and Bipolar. My son was diagnosed with Pure O religious OCD two years ago. He has to complete a task so that God doesn’t send him to hell if he doesn’t do it. These tasks are dangerous like doing multiple back flips on concrete, or jumping off balconies three times, doing MMA slams on his back three times. The thoughts are telling him if he doesn’t do this he will go to hell. Or he is so worried about blaspheming the holy spirt and loose his salvation. He knows this is his OCD. He knows the scripture and that God is one of peace and love. Been there and done that on quoting scripture and reminding him he is saved. I can see the torture he is going through and it is painful to watch. He also needs to be stuck next to me at all times cuz it makes him feel safe. This is impeding on my life as I feel I have a toddler again, he is 24 and a former 4 star football player. He wants this to stop, he is in therapy and working on it. He was free from these thoughts from November 2023 till April 2025. He is dealing with narcissistic trauma with his father and this triggers the OCD. My question is what can I do to support and help him through these episodes and not agitate him and to help him heal?
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Okay so my parents don't really handle my ocd that well. For starters my contamination is getting worse (I'm 14) and keep exisivly washing my hands, or using toilet roll which is unfortunately really common. Now they are getting angry at me for using too much toilet roll... What do I do? There saying I'm ruining there lifes because of my ocd. I'm making there lifes miserable. And they don't COMMUNICATE or sit down with me and look me in the eyes and try sort it out WITH ME. they just go "STOP USING SO, MUCH TOILET ROLL" "you've broke another headset" "WE ARE ALLOWED TO BE PISSED AT YOU" and I'm getting self harm urges because there making me out to be such a bad person. Which obviously doesn't mix well with ocd.
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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.
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