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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 16. I had been in therapy since I was 9 with anxiety and depression but when I was 16 I watched a show about people with ocd and I started to write everything down that I did that I didn’t think anything about. I had symptoms when younger like I used to have problems with socks and tags on my shirts which for kids is a sign when young. I had a list of over 50 symptoms/compulsions I had after writing everything down. My ocd also went hand in hand with my eating disorder which it is common for people with an ed to also have ocd. Everything made since and with proper medication and therapy I’m doing great. I’m happy again and I turned 19 in August.
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- 6y ago
I was 10 years old. I was looking at a photograph of both of my parents and the thought “they’re going to die” suddenly popped into my head. Being so young, I had no idea where this thought came from or why I thought it but I knew that it bothered me. Around the same age I had another intrusive thought that scared me and I remember just asking God to forgive me over and over and over and over again throughout the night time. I knew that my thoughts were strange but I didn’t realize what I had until I literally looked up “unwanted thoughts” on line. When I came across the description for OCD and read more about it I begin to cry, because I realized for the first time that what I had, had a name.
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- 6y ago
Wasn’t diagnosed until 19 but I’ve been showing signs for the last 8 years or so. My main obsession is time and I have multiple alarms to keep me on schedule or to keep me from being late
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- 6y ago
I’ve personally shown symptoms of OCD since I was little even though I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 17 (I’m turning 20 in a few days). The first sign that both my family and I remember is how I always used to take too long in the school bathroom when I was in Kindergarten because I didn’t feel clean enough after using it.
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- 6y ago
Wasn’t diagnosed until I was 19 but I showed symptoms of obsessive anxious thinking since I was about 4 I’d say.
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- 6y ago
When I started to wash my hands repeatedly I realised, but since being diagnosed I have realised that looking back I had signs of ocd before that one, but they were just less ocd stereotypical things of you know what I Mean
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- 6y ago
Wasn’t diagnosed till 17... showed signs of it as early as 4 from what my parents say. The first time I ever really remember it making a difference in my life was when I was 6... I don’t remember life without this.
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- 6y ago
my first ever compulsion happened in the 2nd grade! i remember it so clearly. i was feeling very anxious towards the end of recess, and my brain convinced little me that i had to go back and forth on the monkey bars exactly 3 times before returning to the classroom or else i would feel unbearably anxious for the rest of the school day.
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- 17w ago
I've never seen a therapist or been diagnosed, so I went surfing through to find this community. I've seen a lot of OCD symptoms written online. Here is what I experience that I feel may be OCD. If any of you guys agrees, please let me know. I have only ever been able to call my mom by her first name. I have never been able to not do that. She tried to make me call her mom once as a kid but it felt so wrong that I started crying. Everytime I see a wet floor sign, I say "piso mojado" out loud. I have plenty of harsh intrusive thoughts, such as committing acts of violence when I see people not using their turn signals, interrupting performers at a concert. I make myself re-press on my phone alarms 10-12 times each day in the same rythym until it feels fully set to go off. Light switches get flicked off and on, I can't stand not doing it. I have to double-check everything and make myself re-look through the same drawers at work for hours. I love to write, but I never get far because I need approval from others. My head is also always filled to the brim with thoughts which has made writing and things like memory a lot harder. I can't use spoons. I can only use forks for almost everything. I can't stand them. That's all I can think of for right now. Please let me know what you guys think. Thanks!
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- 15w ago
Anyone else develop it in their 30s? I’m 33 and just started showing symptoms in October 2024. So far have only been diagnosed with GAD , PD and depression.I started having intrusive thoughts after a series of panic attacks . My compulsions would be googling. I have made an effort to stop though because it only makes me feel worse. My intrusive thoughts have been around fear of going crazy
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- 15w ago
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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