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- 4y ago
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!
Hey, I meant to comment under your reply lol but long story short, my story is similar to yours :)
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.
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
same! 8th grade was the complete worst
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.
I'm remember having OCD at age 6. when did you all start having those problems?
How long have you struggled with OCD? My first memory of intrusive thoughts and constantly rechecking stuff is from around third grade. Around sixth-seventh grade it got really bad, though. I was constantly confessing to every bad thought and action I had ever done. Then I got really bad intrusive thoughts about harming myself/others alongside sexual ones. It continued like this for a while, although I stopped confessing. It wasn’t until 11th grade it really started flaring up again, and I was eventually diagnosed this year.
When did you guys first feel like you had OCD? Or the first symptom/thought/compulsion you felt was related to OCD?
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