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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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Does anyone struggle with feeling like their ocd issues are not ocd enough compared to other peoples ocd? Is this an ocd thought itself lol
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I haven't been able to read about experiences similar to mine when it comes to my perfectionism OCD so I was wondering if anyone had any "uncommon" experiences.
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I was diagnosed with OCD around the age of 6, subtype- contamination primarily. It calmed down as I got older and I assumed it had gone away, but also didn’t realize it can show up in other ways, and it still had been effecting me which I know now. I’m not 31 and I’ve been in therapy for a year and it’s helped a lot, although I sometimes get thoughts that what if some of the stuff I’m dealing with isn’t ocd and I’m exaggerating. I feel like thoughts will feel sticky and I’ll do certain compulsions but then the thought eventually vanishes if I do it a few times which makes me think maybe it’s not OCD since other people/friends I know would probably do the exact same thing. Not sure if I’m making sense, but I guess my question is if that thought comes up with anyone else? Just being unsure if something you’re doing actually is ocd or not.
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