When did you guys first feel like you had OCD? Or the first symptom/thought/compulsion you felt was related to OCD?

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.

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.

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

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.

Wasn’t diagnosed until I was 19 but I showed symptoms of obsessive anxious thinking since I was about 4 I’d say.

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

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.

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.