ThreeLittleBirds
- Date posted
- 5y
unhingedbutterflyunhingedbutt...
- Date posted
- 5y
Fear of vomiting. Its Still here going strong 20 years later..but manageable for long periods of time
ThreeLittleBirdsThreeLittleB...
- Date posted
- 5y
Have you ever done erp for your fear
kaitlin23kaitlin23
- Date posted
- 5y
SAME I hate it so much!!! How are you managing with it being “sick season”?
Mimi123Mimi123
- Date posted
- 5y
Fear of buttons! Still have it! But the second was contamination!
ThreeLittleBirdsThreeLittleB...
- Date posted
- 5y
Like buttons on a shirt or buttons on an elevator? That is so interesting!!
Mimi123Mimi123
- Date posted
- 5y
@ThreeLittleBirds Buttons on a shirt! I can't touch them, wear them or even be near them! If there is a loose button and I'm drinking, eating or breathing near it, I feel contaminated
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 5y
Hygiene, now it has decreased but now I have anxiety and more themes of OCD :)
hate_ocd.123hate_ocd.123
- Date posted
- 5y
Mine was cancer ocd from what I can remmeber. My first truly chronic and disabling one was end of world ocd though.
ThreeLittleBirdsThreeLittleB...
- Date posted
- 5y
The health stuff is hard because health is real and it’s hard to tell if we’re overreacting or if we really need medical attention for something serious.
hate_ocd.123hate_ocd.123
- Date posted
- 5y
@Charmed Yes it is. Atm I’m stressed I have cancer cause I have a few signs and the doctors are even worried. I hope I don’t though
rachelrocks7rachelrocks7
- Date posted
- 5y
My earliest ocds that I can clearly remember were at the ripe young age of 5. I was obsessed with colors and patterns. I had to find patterns in everything I looked at. I listed every color I saw. If I looked at a Hannah Montana I would list off blonde, peach, green,blue, gray, purple, silver, black until every color was accounted for. I absolutely hated these stupid intrusive thoughts. I imagined I might have some kind of disease, and I named it patterns. I was frequently troubled by a recurring image in which imagined going on a national talk show with my mom to be interviewed about patterns. The spokesman would ask me, "So, tell us about it." And I would describe as well as I could for being 5 what patterns felt like to me. Then my mom would cover some snickers and the host would face the audience and ask me, "So, you believe that you have this disease... patterns??" And then everyone in the whole world laughed at me. Throughout elementary school I would be biblically humiliated by teachers for doint compulsions that I couldn't control.
rachelrocks7rachelrocks7
- Date posted
- 5y
Publicly humiliated*
lizzy123lizzy123
- Date posted
- 5y
Demonic posession when i was a kid!
pingu111pingu111
- Date posted
- 5y
First cleaning ocd, then harm ocd, then homo ocd, then harm ocd again, then sexual intrusive thoughts and now rocd with a bit of cleaning ocd and homo ocd and some sexual intrusive thoughts to mix things up and make my life easier ☺️.
ThreeLittleBirdsThreeLittleB...
- Date posted
- 5y
Lol yea I had a touch of ROCD but it’s been mostly contaminantion/harm/sexual intrusive taboo thoughts/ it’s just been a blast! Mental breakdowns left and right. But knowing it’s a disorder and that it’s all just false responses to fear is comforting. It’s sadly just our brain trying to protect us from our fears.
Related posts
mary.94
- Date posted
- 21w
Hi, I’m new and wanted to make some friends w/OCD!
I’m 19 and struggle with health anxiety, contamination, harm, and magical thinking OCD and would love to meet people with similar experiences and hardships because I have never had an opportunity for such a supportive community!
Sierra01
- Date posted
- 14w
My first post
Hello! I’m new here. Unfortunately I’m not able to afford a therapist but I’ve been doing a lot of research and I think a lot of my symptoms/thoughts align with OCD. I want to share some of what I experience and see if anyone else experiences the same and what resources helped you. I think I mostly experience contamination OCD. I’m constantly worried that something I do/touch is going to make me really sick and/or die. Especially with food, I’m constantly worried that I’ll accidentally have something on my hands when I eat, then I’ll touch the food and get that on the food, eat it and get sick. So I’ll wash my hands every time my hands touch any little tiny thing again and again before I eat, same with any forks/spoons, or I’ll even think I touched cleaner a few hours ago and I’ve washed my hands several times since then and I just washed them again but they still feel dirty so even if impractical I’ll use a fork and if my hands touch the part of the fork that touches the food then I can’t eat the food any longer or use that fork. Also at work I have these thoughts that I know are ridiculous but also give me very real anxiety. Like “if I don’t finish this order before that machine beeps its a sign I’m going to die” and then I have to rush to make sure I finish fast and then I’ll be like ok that’s so stressful I’m not going to think like that any more it’s ridiculous but then the thoughts keep coming back so I have to keep rushing. This is just a little tad bit of what I experience and I would love to hear from others as I haven’t met anyone else like me before. Thank you!
Anonymous
- Date posted
- 11w
Taboo OCD and dating
Anyone have any advice for dating with OCD? Specifically the more taboo themes like POCD, incest ocd zoophilia ocd, harm ocd etc. I’ve never really dated in my life and the thought of approaching these conversations with people not in the ocd community is kind of scary
Be a part of the largest OCD Community
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond