ccg

Date posted: 5y

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.

outdoorman

Date posted: 5y

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!

JLA

Date posted: 5y

Hey, I meant to comment under your reply lol but long story short, my story is similar to yours :)

ccg

Date posted: 5y

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.

JLA

Date posted: 5y

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.

Maria Savio

Date posted: 5y

I was about 14

Ben84

Date posted: 5y

8th grade was when it got serious

saaaam

Date posted: 5y

same! 8th grade was the complete worst

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

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

Lina

Date posted: 5y

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

OCD Overcomer

Date posted: 5y

Probably around age 5.

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

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

Befewefe

Date posted: 5y

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

Evelyn4416

Date posted: 5y

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.

JLA

Date posted: 5y

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

eleanor.m

Date posted: 5y

8th grade for me.

Mgully09

Date posted: 25w

I feel like I'm not in control of my own mind

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.

"Pure" OCD

RaRaRa

Date posted: 20w

How did you learn you have OCD?

No need to dig into your subtype if you aren't comfortable with it! I noticed I could have a disorder when I was listening the Jurassic Park audiobook and my brain just went like "WHAT IF YOU CHEATED ON YOUR PARTNER AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW" out of the blue and I was girl wtf 😭 I tried to brush it off and ignore it but we all know that didn't work and without noticing I would still thinking on it

Optimistic

Date posted: 19w

Feeling overwhelmed by diagnosis

I am newly diagnosed with OCD as a 33 year old female I was fat oses with bipolar at 15 and never really identified with it much and totally relate to ocd. I wish i would have known long ago so I could have gotten treatment earlier. Now that I know and am aware and can see what’s off and what are compulsions and my insatiable need for reassurance it’s so overwhelming- it feels like my mind is a prison and attacks me with a new pure o quest as soon as I wake up I’m optimistic I’ll be able to get better but it just feels like it’s time sucking and joy stealing disorder I know I’m not alone here I feel like a crazy person replaying and replaying things I want to know if you can relate or if you have been at this for a while and actually feel like you are breaking free from this Thanks for the read

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