Just curious, how young were you when your OCD began? I remember being in middle school! I thought I was going to end up crazy as an adult because I didn’t understand what was going on in my head. On top of that, I was going through puberty so the combination of the two were horrible.

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!

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.

I was about 14

8th grade was when it got serious

I've had it pretty much since I was 3, currently I'm 14

11 or 12 maybe even before that I have sucky memory lol.

Probably around age 5.

About 7 but I didn’t know what was wrong at the time until it became controlling at 13

Since I was 8 years old for me..it was actually worse back then because of my creative kid brain

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.

I've had it since I was a young girl. I think I showed symptoms when I was 4 years old.

8th grade for me.