ThreeLittleBirds
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- 5y
unhingedbutterflyunhingedbutt...
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- 5y
Fear of vomiting. Its Still here going strong 20 years later..but manageable for long periods of time
ThreeLittleBirdsThreeLittleB...
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- 5y
Have you ever done erp for your fear
kaitlin23kaitlin23
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- 5y
SAME I hate it so much!!! How are you managing with it being “sick season”?
Mimi123Mimi123
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- 5y
Fear of buttons! Still have it! But the second was contamination!
ThreeLittleBirdsThreeLittleB...
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- 5y
Like buttons on a shirt or buttons on an elevator? That is so interesting!!
Mimi123Mimi123
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- 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
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- 5y
Hygiene, now it has decreased but now I have anxiety and more themes of OCD :)
hate_ocd.123hate_ocd.123
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- 5y
Mine was cancer ocd from what I can remmeber. My first truly chronic and disabling one was end of world ocd though.
ThreeLittleBirdsThreeLittleB...
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 5y
Publicly humiliated*
lizzy123lizzy123
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- 5y
Demonic posession when i was a kid!
pingu111pingu111
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- 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...
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- 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.
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geodrimilis
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- 22w
How did your so-ocd feel when it started?
For me it was a weird intrusive thought and after that I slowly started developing anxiety and I felt a weird thing like I was losing my attraction to girls. Then I woke up one day in complete panic cuz it felt like I had lost feelings for girls suddenly and I started searching online how to know if you’re gay if sexuality changes suddenly and I took some gay tests or sexuality tests online. Chat gpt was a big thing back then too. That was before therapy and before I knew what ocd is.Can anyone relate?
f7nn
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- 21w
My current predicament
Struggling with TOCD has probably been the hardest theme I’ve had to deal with so far For reference. I’m a gay male 20yr old Before this theme I was so open with my gender expression, love drag and used to do it for a time. A lot of my friends are trans women and my whole life is queer When this theme hit. It’s like I completely lost who I was. Questioning everything I enjoyed, not participating in anything because it triggered me so heavily. I went through a whole gender journey awhile back and the trans path never spoke to me when I looked into it. I love my physique and my face but now when I look into the mirror i feel like a shell of who I was. I can’t find any sort of pure enjoyment without the accompanying “what if” or “you’re this” intrusive thought I still enjoy how I look. I’ve not looked in the mirror and felt like anything is missing from me or needs to be taken away I just feel like a spectator in my life while this disease tells me I’m not who I know myself to be I affirm myself every day I know who I am and it may change in the future but that’s not important. It’s highly unlikely it will but it may! Giving into the uncertainty has been so hard but it’s worth it! My ocd has really picked up since getting into my first serious relationship I care about my boyfriend with my whole heart but over the course of our relationship my themes have included Health Relationship Irreality Harm I just want to be who I was again before this current theme it feels unbearable to live like this BUT! I’m seeking appropriate treatment and not giving into a majority of compulsions I just wanted to write this to see if anyone can relate and if they do. Know that you will overcome this! I know I will and you will too
mary.94
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- 15w
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!
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