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Hello :) I'm sorry OCD is interfering with school every day. This far, has the school taken any disciplinary action? I can imagine this problem eventually coming to your parents attention if school staff have a conversation with them. Perhaps you could talk with a school guidance counselor, explain why you're late for school, and ask them to facilitate a conversation with your parents. If you're assertive and engaged in problem solving with your parents and the school, you're less likely to end up in trouble
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The school doesn't know. I've left school now to go to college but I'm just kinda scared it'll be the same thing again
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@amineb04 Do compulsions make you late for other things?
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@NOCD Advocate - Katie Just whenever I'm supposed to be going out. My mum doesn't rly know as a part of my compulsions are because I'm bisexual and closeted. However I have told her I probably have it. Sorry, I can't really explain it well
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Hope to help you out on here!
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Thank you so much
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heya, gotta say i relate quite a fair bit. i’m 17 now and have only just started to get help and my ocd not only makes it hard to be on time for things, but it also demotivates me, and sometimes i avoid certain places because i know my ocd will attack/know that i’ll just become exhausted with all my compulsions relating to the setting. i’m bi & trans, out to my mum but not my dad (who also doesn’t know about my ocd). bc he doesn’t know about anything, it makes it hard to give a valid reason to the tendencies my ocd draws me to. i remember him looking at my hands and asking why they were so dry and i just shrugged bc i really didn’t know how to tell him. but know that you have a lot of support on this app and we’re always happy to help! ?
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I'm always here, nice to meet another member of the LGBT community :) On Tuesday, I went to the park and then my OCD started to attack me and I started panicking that I hadn't done the same ritual I always do before I go outside. I hate this
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@amineb04 it’s so frustrating honestly especially when you’re already far away from where you usually do the ritual/compulsion and physically can’t go back, or like when you’re being rushed and just don’t have enough time to carry it out
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@cole As I've not officially been diagnosed like most people on here have, my mum isn't that supportive yet so she rushes me when I'm at home doing it so I can't concentrate. She calls it "being silly" or "sillyitis"
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@amineb04 that sounds a lot like me with my dad tbh. i don’t know if he even understands ocd let alone know that i have it, so even if i did say anything, i’d be going on for hours and hours about it. it’s well hard being called silly or people telling us that we’re “overreacting” bc they don’t really understand. like to someone else our compulsions might sound irrational and easily avoidable but to us the thoughts are so real that we feel like we have to
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@cole Yeah cos everyone on this app has compulsions so we all understand it. But some family or friends may not. I'm lucky cos my bf and my some of my friends understand and I'm supported by them
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@amineb04 that’s great!! most of my friends know about it and i’ve told them a lot and they’re super supportive too. it’s nice to have a small circle of people who understand. it can be rly hard to come out to ppl, like in my case i feared that people would think i’m a bad person because of my thoughts, but it actually went well
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@cole Well I came out to a few people so I guess that was pracise for telling them about my OCD ?
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Well you're welcome and accepted here ☺. Hopefully we can help you out.
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Thank you so much
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Anyone else will just be doing anything normal and I’m gay comes in? It’s so distressing and I try and say ok sure ocd but the anxiety over takes me and my mind won’t let me believe I’m straight when I am. I love men I’m Not attracted to women but when I ask myself the doubt is for sure there which sounds like Casebook ocd. I’m just sick of this I don’t want to have to laugh at things in my head that don’t make any sense it’s so hard and unfair
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I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
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Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?
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