I listen to a lot of ocd podcasts and watch a lot videos read a lot of articles. And I’m recently feeling a bit worried when I hea stories about how ocd has manifested in other people’s lives. A lot of people talk about experiencing some perfectionism as a kid, often counting or being afraid of germs. I don’t temper experiencing such things. I don’t think I’ve ever struggled with contamination ocd. I’ve only really struggled with pure o types of ocd. This leads me to worry “maybe it’s not ocd.” Does anyone else feel this way?

"Pure" OCD

Username: Carl CornettCarl Cornett

Date posted: 4y ago

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.

Username: autumngraceautumngrace

Date posted: 4y ago

This is helpful thank you.

Username: ocdillustratedocdillustrated

Date posted: 4y ago

I'm wondering whether the reading articles and listening to podcasts has shifted from information seeking to reassurance seeking

Username: autumngraceautumngrace

Date posted: 4y ago

I definitely think it has.

Username: ocdillustratedocdillustrated

Date posted: 4y ago

@autumngrace Do you think you could take a pause from it and see what happens?

Username: autumngraceautumngrace

Date posted: 4y ago

@NOCD Advocate - Katie I think I could. I’ve been listening less than I did a month ago

Username: goldm42goldm42

Date posted: 4y ago

@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.

Username: Tolly537

Date posted: 6y ago

So I have OCD about OCD itself. Like I will be talking about harm OCD or POCD that I struggle/struggled with as a kid and it come up sometimes now but it was rlly bad as a kid (I’m 16 now) and then I’ll worry “what if you don’t have harm ocd or pocd, and when you have pocd you can’t get the images and thoughts out of your head but because it doesn’t make you feel as physically sick as sexuality OCD what if I’m making my POCD and harm OCD up for attention?! Can anyone relate...

Username: Sully0421

Date posted: 5y ago

Does anyone else ever get obsessions where you worry that your OCD isn’t real or isn’t bad enough to be OCD?

Username: Mia90210

Date posted: 1y ago

Does anyone else experience this?

So I suffer with Contamination OCD, and when I try to talk to other people about it, they always think that it's because I'm afraid of getting sick from germs, and although some people struggle with that that's not what worries me, I'm not scared of getting sick but I hate the thought that the germ is on me or on items that I use or on surfaces, its just the fear of it being there that I'm the most scared of. Does anyone else who has contamination OCD also experience it this way?

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