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My story is different then most people with OCD. I do remember some moments or days when I was younger (like 12 or 13) where I would worry about things no matter how much my parents told me everything was ok. But for most of my childhood and teen years I was a happy go lucky kid who didn’t fear anything. It wasn’t until I was 19 in college studying Pre-Med and was being stressed to the limit I had my first panic attack. I didn’t even know what a panic attack was. The next year I started having weird intrusive thoughts. Later, I would find out this was pure o ocd. Fast forward 8 years later, here I am with much knowledge and recovering from this wicked crap!
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Hey, I meant to comment under your reply lol but long story short, my story is similar to yours :)
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Thank for sharing. I relate to your experience so much. Mine started when I was a teen but it went away for years and then came back when I was in college.
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That's pretty much how my story goes. I do remember having some of it as a kid. But throughout middle and high school, I don't really remember having any issues whatsoever. But as soon as I got into college, I noticed a difference in the levels of anxiety I was experiencing. Then, this last year, when I was 19, I started getting the intrusive thoughts that wouldn't go away (OCD) around August. It's a horrible thing to deal with on a day to day basis. It makes me question so many things :( but we're all in this together.
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I was about 14
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8th grade was when it got serious
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same! 8th grade was the complete worst
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I've had it pretty much since I was 3, currently I'm 14
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11 or 12 maybe even before that I have sucky memory lol.
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Probably around age 5.
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About 7 but I didn’t know what was wrong at the time until it became controlling at 13
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Since I was 8 years old for me..it was actually worse back then because of my creative kid brain
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Looking back I think the earliest instances I could see it being OCD was when I was about 11. It got a lot worse when I was 23 though.
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I've had it since I was a young girl. I think I showed symptoms when I was 4 years old.
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8th grade for me.
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Since when do you believe you have OCD? Anyone who would like to share what were the indications/symptoms in childhood?
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One of my first memories of OCD was from when I was about 8-12 years old. I’ve always struggled with sleeping and prone to twisting and turning due to my brain going like 🧠 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Anyways once I couldn’t sleep and got out of bed one of my parents said, with compassion, ”oh it’s so late, why are you awake it’s school tomorrow” and when they followed me to my room I saw that the time was 22:22 and I felt a really scary feeling in my chest (today I know it was anxiety) and from that day on the time 22:22 🕰️ followed me for years. I was twisting and turning and feeling anxious about my digital clock (I’m a 90s girly) turning 22:22. I could get issues taking deep breaths, being sweaty, uncomfortable and scared and feeling like ”ITS SOON 22:22 AND WHEN THE TIME PASSES IT WILL BE TOO LATE”. I never really understood exactly what was going to be ”too late” but I’m guessing it was getting too little sleep absolutely blown out of proportion. As soon it passed 22:22 it was all good and I could fall asleep 😴 I don’t struggle with those numbers today instead I smile and feel compassionate towards little me. Still OCD sucks, I still struggle with sleep times to times and do have some magical thinking but the big difference is that I logically know that it’s not real even if it emotionally sometimes feel that way. Take care out there. If this made you feel less lonely, wanna share your first memories of OCD? ❤️
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I hate the way ocd has completely messed up my brain, I struggle to tell the difference between an intrusive though and a regular one, I have really bad issues with morality and I feel as if my brain can no longer tell what is and isn't right and I can't tell if I'm over reacting about situations and I end up feeling stuck in a loop of wondering if I'm a bad person and trying to look at a situation rationally and not knowing if that's even possible with the state of my mind, I feel like none of my thoughts are actually mine. I hate it and I wish I could feel in control of my thoughts even for just a day, just to know what it's like. I've had ocd symptoms since I was about 9-10 so i feel like I've never really know a life without it. I just wish I could live out my teenage years like anyone else my age. I can hardly engage with my hobbies and passions and I don't know what to do about it. I can't go to therapy or get medication because I'm not even diagnosed, I just feel trapped. I'm only a teenager, like I said, I don't want to live my entire life like this.
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