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- FatherIimaginedyoutaller
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- 4y ago
Yes. My first symptoms were when I was little girl and I was afraid I would go to hell for doing minor bad stuff so i was doing compulsively good stuff to pay back for my bad stuff
I totally agree here I went to a catholic school for 10 years and it was hell and this is what it did to me lol
I have thought this many times myself. I genuinely do think there is a link and have always been interested in someone studying this.
I have always thought there has to be a beginning cause to OCD. This forum I believe when we put all of our experiences and knowledge together we will find the origin of OCD, and then we can all pull our knowledge and experiences together again to find the ultimate cure for OCD. WE ARE THE CURE.
VERY intellectual findings Nonbinaryteen. You could very well have discovered one of the leading causes of OCD. My hat goes off to you. Keep up the intellectual thinking. It’s thoughts like yours I believe that will solve this OCD puzzle.
I genuinely can't tell if this sarcasm or not
What is nonbinaryteen ?
Non-binary means not identifying exclusively as a male or a female. A teen is just a teen
No I don’t mean this as sarcasm at all. All thoughts are welcome here and I truly believe you may have found something.
Anxietyguy . This is first compulsion I remember. There is also something about teaching children to satisfy other people's needs.. I mean something like : " give grandma a kiss she will be sad without getting a kiss from you" , or " share all cookies with all of your classmates cause you have to share"
Jamarceline, very interesting concept. Even though I realize it was a long time ago that you experienced your first compulsion as you described, do you remember any anxiety that you may have experienced before the compulsion happened? If so describe it the best you can. How long did it last and how intense was it?
First anxiety was when I did something bad but I thought it wasnt that bad so I didn't care cuz I thought I can do it later ( it was something like I didn't clean up toys in my room and there was a mess when my mom and stepfather came back home from work and they expected my room to be cleaned up. And I think my mom had a bad day at work that day and she didn't pay attention to me and she was a bit upset that I welcomed her home with a mess in my room and there I felt first feeling of anxiety cause I didn't understand why my mom is so upset about my messy room. So next time when when they wanted me to clean something and I didn't do it before they come back home I had anxiety and every time when I didn't listen to them, before they even find out
Ok, well spoken. We very well might be into something here. It seems to point back when you were a child. For example I will now describe to you my first experience with anxiety. Growing up as a child my mother would constantly tell me to wash my hands to keep germs away. I became so obsessed with hand washing that my hands literally became raw. However everytime I thought of germs that could be on my hands and make me sick I had to perform my hand washing compulsion. Then I got a pet turtle and picked it up one day and went to wash my hands afterwards and my dad (now I realize was only trying to help me) told me to refrain from my usual hand washing compulsion.... I went for like 8 hours afterwards without washing my hands...the whole time my anxiety was a solid 10. This is my earliest experience with OCD.
Sounds like wrong choice of parents'words cause anxiety and ocd and when parent or parents are focused too much on something that doesn't make sense to a child
Sometimes I wonder if ocd has been studied enough. Like how do they know these subtypes?? Are they masks for actually wanting whatever it is and then experiencing guilt? Did professionals make up soocd to get people to fear their sexuality/thoughts? And then the people will cover it up with ocd when it's actually denial ????? I know these are intrusive/doubting thoughts but I felt like sharing in case any of u relate
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as the disease of doubt, has a very crippling effect on an individual's ability to function at its worst. This seems to happen especially when the individual's obsessive-compulsive disorder is thematically related to violence, sexually inappropriate thoughts or other taboo topics. When the vicious circle progresses far enough, a person no longer necessarily knows himself at all, is not sure of who they are or what they want. I believe that the background of obsessive-compulsive disorder, like the background of mental health problems in general, is a feeling of disgust and revulsion towards some thought, scenario or self. The way in which obsessive-compulsive disorder manifests itself, especially in the so-called "pure o" form, is very complex, because the individual disgust-inducing thematicity manifests itself not only in thoughts but also in the form of feelings, temptations and physical sensations. In some cases, however, this goes so far that the person's beliefs about his own integrity begin to decay and the feeling of hope and the meaning of life disappear. The idea can be clarified analogously to Nietzsche's thoughts on belief systems. As a result of obsessions and other repulsive thoughts, feelings and temptations, a person's belief system about his own integrity begins to collapse, but when the belief system collapses - the belief in that belief system itself collapses as well. When it no longer seems meaningful or possible to believe in the realization of a familiar and safe belief system, there is also no hope for anything better. So there is no longer even hope left for a meaningful whole of self, which drives a person to deep anxiety and depersonalization, which in turn begins to displace a person from social relationships and from all meaningful activities that a person is used to enjoying and creating meaning for his life based on his own complete self-concept, which is no longer felt to exist. Any thoughts or similar experiences on this?
For me with ocd… it’s honestly the guilt, because mine comes in question forms and an answer is provided and if it feels like yes ocd tells me i don’t deserve to live or have good things which keeps me ruminating until i can dispel the answer is no or idk. If i can overcome that guilt I could beat this. That niggling ocd guilt that says the question needs to be solved Has anyone else experienced them have overcame it?
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