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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
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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
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I have thought this many times myself. I genuinely do think there is a link and have always been interested in someone studying this.
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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.
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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.
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I genuinely can't tell if this sarcasm or not
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What is nonbinaryteen ?
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Non-binary means not identifying exclusively as a male or a female. A teen is just a teen
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No I don’t mean this as sarcasm at all. All thoughts are welcome here and I truly believe you may have found something.
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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"
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
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So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
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I have terrible ocd. Lots of different subtypes but the one that bothers me most is religious ocd. The advice I've been given is to go to only one priest for confession (I'm Catholic) and to listen to his advice. I've been doing that lately and I'm actually taking his advice (like, for example, that if I committed a mortal sin, I'd know for sure.. When there's doubt about whether or not I've done smth wrong, it's likely not mortal and I can recieve communion). I've read that this is good advice for scrupulous ppl. So I'm finally taking his advice but it's so scary! My biggest fear is receiving the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin.. But I need to trust what the priest is telling me. Any other Catholics in this situation? I'm proud of myself for actually taking his advice but it's terrifying at the same time..What if I'm fooling myself and can't admit to myself that I actually did commit a mortal sin, but he sees it as doubt..like, I don't know if I'm doubting I've sinned or if I'm in denial about sinning.. If anyone knows what I mean..I also realize that full will needs to be involved in mortal sin and the presence of doubt is often a sign that even if I did sin, it wasn't fully willful so that's why it's not mortal.. But I'm still unsure and afraid. But that's probably cuz I have ocd and anxiety. Lol.. I'm just wondering if anyone else has been in this situation.. And if it gets easier to listen to your confessor's advice even though it's scary and not what your OCD wants.
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What’s involved in this process? •demons •tyrants (actual people) •replacing hobbies with church I believe we were all born with talents, interests, I don’t think religion or spirituality should ever be a hobby or something for fun or to dive into when ur bored religion or spirituality should only be approached when needed needed crucially needed is what I’m starting to believe. That just makes sense. Why would God want us thanking him constantly when he just wants to help us and want us to know like “hey bro here if u need anything holler at me.” and like he kicks up his feet and does his own thing, like what if god is just like that and then here I am having mad anxiety that I just put Gods name I lowercase but I meant no disrespect towards god when doing that. n that’s my point again, why would the person who created me to experience feeling grass on my thighs and walking this earth to look at sunsets he creates for us each day n eat good yellow mangos n explore rainforest and ultimately “LIVE LIFE.”, of course I would assume the one who wanted us to experience life on earth for a bit would maybe perhaps be like any ordinary day and say, “make good decisions.” Before you walk out the door, like imagine the whole Bible was just those 3 factors I’ve just pointed out •live life • make good decisions •I’m here if you need me I’m really gonna create the type of God that works for me idc anymore this is really giving me so much peace Do/Did many/most people with OCD have an absent parent/abusive parent? I’m starting to think that could also be another reason why OCD is developed Is that already a proven fact? Would make lots of sense.
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