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I relate a lot to what you’re feeling. I’ve had fights with my parents over OCD every night for about a week now, and I can feel it affecting my relationship with everyone around me. My grades are tanking as well. These are all struggles that OCD brings on, but just know that there are ways to fix it and reduce the effects of it. There is a way to get your life back. If your therapist isn’t helpful, would it be that bad if you tried another one?
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Whenever I bring up this topic, my parents just deny it and say I'm arrogant and I refuse to listen to my therapist, even when I know he isn't helping much. So since this year I've tried to cure this on my own. But it's really hard without any guidance. I don't have anyone to talk to, no one will understand me, and my family members think that I'm a freak. Ocd is hard but it's even harder when you're alone..
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As someone who kept my OCD to myself for 4 years, I can tell you that you CANNOT beat it on your own. There’s just no way. It’s a disorder, and you need someone who doesn’t have a disorder to help you get through it. That doesn’t mean you should give up, but it means that you’ll have a lot more success in managing it if you find someone you trust to help you get through it. Are you sure your parents won’t help you?
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My parents do try to help, but even they get fed up and tired of me, I know they are looking out for me but they aren't being very helpful tbh. I don't know what to do
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My siblings don’t even believe me when I say I have these problems. They think I’m being extra and overreacting. So I learned to not give a shit about what they think, all that matters is my mental health. If they choose to believe me,great, if not we’ll shit. Nothing I can do about that. Wish you the best of luck!
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Exactly! Everyone thinks I'm being extra and overreacting! No one takes me seriously and just label me as a freak. Ocd itself is hard and I have to deal with this crap too lol
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@Vidhyut That’s why I learned not to care anymore. If they’re going to make fun of it and not even try to understand, what’s the point of explaining. Save your breathe
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@sillybilly Exactly! thanks for listening and hope you beat ocd soon
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it’s tough. people always talk about the social stigma around mental health, but I didn’t know how serious it was until I asked for help and people started looking at me different
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I feel you. Only someone who has been on the same path can understand. Wish you all the best and thanks for listening
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I can relate as well back before I actually found out I had OCD my mom used to say the same things why don't you just snap out of it...the only problem was I couldn't and the doctor put me on meds and always do whenever I try to go and get help to better manage my OCD but I have always been reluctant to go on meds for it.So I have now decided to try to learn to manage it on my own.
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Even i was hesitant to go on meds.. They have side effects. So I'm trying to manage ocd by myself and it's tough
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EXACTLY...and the side effects is what I was worried about when it comes to meds.
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I can relate a lot to what you’re going through. My OCD has morphed into just about every aspect of my life. I have been told these things too and I find myself feeling & thinking like “why can’t I just calm down and why can’t I just be like eve else?” I have a very hard time accepting my disorder but I know I have to if I ever want to get better. It may feel like it, but I promise u ur not alone. My anxiety has been EXTREMELY high lately. I’m honestly not sure why, but I constantly feel like I need to find out why and make myself “normal” again or “how I should be” I’m trying so hard to not react to my anxiety but it feels like I’m going to die from something if I don’t. I just want to be ok, but I know that I may never be ok again, and that makes me so sad. I miss who and how I was before OCD and anxiety took control of my life. Also everyone else probably isn’t having a happy life even though u may think they are. Everyone has anxiety about something it’s just that ours is a bit different and more persistent than others.
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I’m so sorry you’re dealing with them. That’s really disheartening and I’m sure it hurts your feelings. Your OCD is real and you’re doing the best you can with what you’ve got. Have you looked into group therapy? Many areas have local support groups for people with OCD. And some are even for both OCD sufferers and their families. If your therapist isn’t being helpful, a group might at least help you feel less alone. And if your family can join, hopefully they can see other families being more supportive and learn to stop being such assholes to their kid who’s clearly suffering and needs support.
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Hi I’m 17. My life since I was born has been full of exploring and tons and tons of hobbies. I have adhd. But about 1 year ago is when it kinda started or at least when I started to notice these thoughts and compulsions. I got in a relationship with my girlfriend. And about 2 weeks into that relationship my I started thinking “what if I don’t love her” and I didn’t even know that that’s what ocd was at the time and it ruined with gut wrenching anxiety for months. Then I started titling it as ocd. After we broke up I started to notice that my ocd was starting to flare up a lot. Like when I was snowboarding and normally when I was having the most fun is when I would ask myself things like “what if I hate this” “what if I’m not having fun” then I would try to feel if I was having fun. I would use chat gpt a lot to try and help it but it didn’t really help. I have lots of other ocd thoughts aswell but at the time this one really caused be anxiety and I just felt numb and I became not social. To this day I’m still not as social and I don’t feel like myself anymore. This is the opposite of who I was a year ago. Then I started questioning everything I do and people I love. So it feels like from the moment I wake up my mind just starts spiraling. I can’t seem to find peace or joy in anything anymore and I just feel like my life is going to continue like this and I’ll never be happy. I’ve accepted it at this point. I would love some help. I haven’t really told anyone I know so any tips would be appreciated. I’d be surprised if you even read this far haha. I’m also Christian and love to approach things from a Christian standpoint. I don’t want to sound like a baby who isn’t experiencing real ocd and it’s hard to put into words how much it affects me I just really hope yall understand and can help.
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This isn’t OCD related so I’m sorry, but I don’t know another platform like this where I can talk to other people and actually get responses. OCD has been a huge fucking setback for me in life. I had to drop classes, wasn’t able to do things, and just felt so shitty all the time because of it. I feel like I blame OCD for everything I’m not. I constantly feel like I’m not good enough. Just today I saw someone I once knew and felt all of those feelings I used to have that made me miserable. Anyways, I tried taking my driver’s test a couple days ago but I wasn’t able to. The DMV only accepted cash. I felt upset but it was whatever. I’m almost 19, and I don’t have a driver’s license. So passing it would mean a lot to me. I compare myself to others my age; they have cars, hobbies, friends, go to college, etc… I don’t have any of that. Maybe comparing myself and all of that is my fault. My family says it’s my fault I’m sad because I just wallow in it. Hearing them say that makes me frustrated and hurt, but maybe they’re right. My mom texted a couple of my siblings in a group chat I wasn’t a part of, “He wants to wallow and be depressed. And woe is me, wah wah wah.” That made me really angry because my siblings were agreeing with her. Maybe they are right. Maybe I am selfish and think the world revolves around me. My sister tells me I need to advocate for myself more, I just don’t want to be a burden. I’ve only been a burden my whole life. My OCD created this whole issue in my family and I hate that. I don’t know what to do anymore. I just want an answer. Am I really a loser? Do I really wallow in it? Am I not trying like my family says? I just want to talk to someone.
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Hi ❤️ I’m really struggling right now I’m in my sophomore year of Highschool and I’ve finally started planning or thinking abt my future (for context I was extremely depressed and suicidal from 6-9th grade) After conquering my depression this is a huge leap for me and I’m proud of myself ❤️ But there’s something still holding me down :( and I’m not sure what to do anymore that thing is OCD. Since 6th grade I have had strong and invasive intrusive thoughts all the time they scare me so bad and make me feel as though I’m not even real anymore :( I’m sick of taking the time to do ridiculous compulsions to rid or ease these thoughts it’s a waste of time and energy and it hurts me so bad I feel like I will never get to just live my life without this :( How can I plan my future when I can’t even find myself in this mess of anxiety 💔 I’m so tired of fighting my mental health it’s been years from anxiety attacks to sh to survived suicide attempts (I got help dw❤️🩹) and recovery there. Just to be thrown into a storm of awful scary sickening thoughts day and night-when can I just be a normal teenager and possibly a happy adult? How do I conquer this so I can love myself to the fullest and live my life free and happy? :( ❤️❤️🩹 I’m so scared to talk to my parents about it I’m ashamed of my thoughts and every time I bring it up they just say I shouldn’t be diagnosing myself or it’s just ADHD. It really really hurts me they have no idea how awful this feels and it makes me feel so alone sometimes 💔
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