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I’m pretty sure most parents of OCD children get tired after some time, but that’s no excuse to say horrible things to their sons or daughters. My parents are kind of like your mom, they think therapy will change me after one session. They don’t understand that it takes time. My father doesn’t even believe that I have a mental illness.
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My family doesn’t even know that I think I have a mental illness or something wrong going with me I suppose
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More than me i think my parents needed reassurance that ocd is a mental illness and not some shit that is explained by general reasoning. They thought that i put myself under ocd because i thought too negatively during my life... I'm just glad i have their general support don't care that they don't assist me in my ocd battles I'm grateful for them but their opinion on my OCD doesn't matter...
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Just tell them its something in the chemicals of the brain, one chemical is messed up and that is an amazing thing about human brain that it is so balanced that one this is messed up it would mess your ideas and thoughts I know it is not just brain chemicals but it is very related you know? You might want to search this more before you tell them about it
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@Bisho I'm in a considerably good relation with them then before. I don't wanna mess it up. I can possibly imagine the conversation going like this Me talks about chemicals in brain My parents: brains have chemicals wut..
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@N0 They dont know about brain having chemicals? Its ok to not know but because my mom is actually someone who educates me about it I can not completely relate but you might be right Maybe there will be a time where it is actually possible to tell them this idk But since it is a good relation between you and your parents then that is good, may it last
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@Bisho This latter “may it last” is a prayer, just to not get it misunderstood
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This is not a nice thing to tell you, i dont know and dont think that I have ocd, I have not meet a therapist yet, but I used to always seeks assurance and share stuff with my mother until she actually shouted at me (not literally shout but rather a loud annoyed voice) and told me to go and pray to God to help me and that she is just a human like me, and I do forgive her for that because what she said was accurate, but that does not mean that I have problems either
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I’m so sorry you have to deal with that. When they don’t understand it can definitely cause anger, frustration, etc. My parents have been weird about it. When we thought it was just anxiety for they seemed fine with everything but once it came out to be OCD it’s like the frustration and doubt came in. My mom gets almost annoyed it seems or maybe it’s just worrisome when I talk to her about it. She has told me “you’ve never dealt with this before so unless you’re not telling me something... (implying I did something and hid it from her that caused my OCD), you’re just looking up things online and claiming it as your own, you keep jumping around from therapist to therapist (I only switched once from a regular therapist to an OCD specialist), etc.”. My dad has been more supportive but he doesn’t get it. When I first told him I had OCD he said I didn’t have it, then said I probably got it from him.
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I feel super sad and depressed i'm tired of feeling so scared it's really changing me. My mom is a pretty difficult person she's a borderline narcissist. Over the years our relationship has changed a lot and recently i've been pretty hard on her because i feel so angry that she's not able to support me mentally in the ways that i need. I see now that she's mentally ill herself and i should be nicer and more understanding. she doesn't know better and she's trying her best. she was just a girl once and i feel bad that i said she lacks a motherly instinct. i love her a lot and i love seeing her laugh and be herself. she's super beautiful and unique and she deserved so much more out of life. I think my ocd makes me super angry towards the people in my life because i know i deserve the love i give. I would be so willing to have a really deep loving conversation with the people close to me yet i get such surface level support.
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Yesterday I had a panic attack from OCD fears. I live alone, so in my panic I called my mum just to get some emotional support. It did not go well. I was asking for reassurnce to much and basically she got annoyed with me and started to chastise me. She said I was being ridiculous and accused me of just making up my symptoms to emotionally manipulate her. She even went as far as threatening to call the police on me to have me sectioned. I feel so humiliated. I know that I can be annoying during my panic attacks, and that my OCD puts a massive toll on my familiy. But I don't want to manipulate people. Now, I feel like an abuser. In these moments, seeing how much my weakness makes my family suffer makes me just want to not be here anymore.
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Having ocd is so incredibly exhausting and depressing- my mom and dad argued with me for over an hour talking about how im a pain to be around, go in too many loops, and ruin everything and everyones mood… this conversation started with me saying im stressed out because of school and that i dont want to go because im exhausted- and idk if this is like ocd directly but it takes me like 2 hours to get ready in the morning because i need to look PERFECT and the same everyday literally 😭 and that process feels so exhausting every morning at 6am but i will NOT go to school without going through with it- i will literally be crying and shaking and wanting to go home the minute i get to school if even a single strand of my hair is not perfectly straightened or any blemishes or flaws are showing- and i cant even walk to school or anything bc im scared the humidity will mess with my hair and everything- and it just really affects my life? And yeah its freaking exhausting. And i have two more years of highschool and I dont know if im going to make it 😭i get super stressed over grades too because i need them to be extraordinary otherwise its a fail. Nothing below 95%. And thats also tiring! 😁 and my mom told me today “medication IS NOTTTT AND OPTION!!!” Like oh okay so im just cooked 😭 and therapy isnt really helping me at all- i feel like what im being told is so basic and generic and it doesn’t help me when im in a huge ocd episode- which is often… and what i hate most is like my mom says “don’t come to me with your problems after 6pm…” im sorry i cant schedule my feelings 😭 im so tired
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