What was everyone’s first theme? Mine was fear of STIs/contamination. Just wanna connect with you all.

Fear of vomiting. Its Still here going strong 20 years later..but manageable for long periods of time

Fear of buttons! Still have it! But the second was contamination!

Hygiene, now it has decreased but now I have anxiety and more themes of OCD :)

Mine was cancer ocd from what I can remmeber. My first truly chronic and disabling one was end of world ocd though.

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.

Demonic posession when i was a kid!

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 ☺️.