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OCD manifests itself. I read an account once of a woman who had intrusive images of a billboard for two years. OCD isn’t a logical disorder, it’s one of emotion. It’s also super coming to wonder if it’s OCD. How you have the disorder, or why, isn’t important. It’s that you do have it, because knowing what it is and the experience of it is far more pertinent to your recovery. Wondering about how it happened is doing nothing to ameliorate the circumstances you’re now in.
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This is helpful thank you.
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I'm wondering whether the reading articles and listening to podcasts has shifted from information seeking to reassurance seeking
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I definitely think it has.
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@autumngrace Do you think you could take a pause from it and see what happens?
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@NOCD Advocate - Katie I think I could. I’ve been listening less than I did a month ago
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@csquared that is a wonderful point. I spent a lot of time wondering why or how my OCD developed, was it something I did? Something that happened to me? After bringing this up to my therapist he gave me this advice - even if you could know what brought it on, would it change anything? The answer tends to be no. I also put it this way - even if we could figure out what gave us/why we have OCD, our OCD would just question it anyway.
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Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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so i was on instagram and it came up with other signs of ocd then someone commented this doesn’t mean you have ocd now im stressed that its not ocd background - i had so-ocd for a few years then got treatment for it but am now on the waiting list for further treatment for other stuff but i dont have another theme which makes me feel like its not ocd my day to day life consists of touching the door handle every time you go past it or someone will die, and inability to send emails without re reading loads of times and getting other people to check because im scared i wrote something bad but the what if it’s not ocd thought is triggering me now and i don’t know what do
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How to know if you actually have it or if I’m just making up the symptoms? I have a lot of intrusive thoughts constantly and even have a “theme” but it really surged after I search up what I was experiencing, but then again I search up a lot of what I experience and constantly have to recheck things. My parents say I’m normal but I know I’m not, (both of my siblings have adhd) I find it immensely hard to focus from turning 17-18. Please let me know what you think l! Thanks!
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