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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
Hey Liam, I have checking compulsions too. This definitely sounds like OCD. As for why we develop this disorder, is not completely know. It is believed genetics and environmental factors could play a role in the development. For example, if you are genetically predisposed to mental illness, certain environmental factors like stress could possibly cause you to develop the disorder. This is not to say genetics are always involved. Anyways, you are not alone Liam, there are many of us here struggling with the same disorder.
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- 6y ago
At the moment it feels like I’ve taken a bit more control over it. But it does kind of come in cycles. If it gets bad again I think I will go for help
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- 6y ago
How do you deal with it
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- 6y ago
I know all the obsessions are just silly and crazy and don’t make any sense, but some part of me feels like I just have to do it because what if...
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- 6y ago
To me it sounds like you might have “just right” OCD. Try looking this up and see if it fits because I could be wrong. As far as how to deal with it, my questions to you are: 1) How long have you been dealing with this? and 2) Have you seen a therapist for this?
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- 6y ago
Somewhere between 2 and 3 years, but it seems to come in waves I guess. It’s not always as bad. I haven’t seen a therapist. I don’t know how to tell anybody about it
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- 6y ago
Are you able to see an OCD specialist? If you are able to, I would strongly recommend it. OCD is a complex disorder so a regular therapist might not know how to treat it properly. I can tell you from experience that it is a very difficult disorder to try to deal with alone. I understand completely 100% what you said about the obsessions seeming silly and not making any sense but you still feel compelled to have to do these compulsions. For me sometimes I’ll feel like I should be able to just stop doing these things on my own but the reality is that it’s not that easy. Having a good therapist to help you could make all the difference in the world for treating your OCD.
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- 6y ago
Would you consider seeing a therapist for ocd?
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- 6y ago
Ya probably. But I dont know how to let my parents know about it
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- 6y ago
Let them know that ocd is real, and very difficult to deal with. Let them know that you need support!
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- 20w ago
So I've had OCD since I was a child. Like really young. The first intrusive thought I can remember was when I was 5. It just keeps getting worse and lately they've been making me physically ill or throwing me into extreme panic attacks again ( ones where I can't move my body ) the other night I thought God was trying to kill me because I was thinking about ending myself from OCD+ life issues but in reality I was just having a panic attack😭😭it affects me daily. It gets a little better with therapy but I don't see therapy coming into my life any time soon and I'm not even sure if I would want to go (for multiple reasons). To wrap this up if you have severe ocd can you tell me what it's like?? I don't want to label anything without proper research and hearing others perspectives. Thank you!! <3 (My profile says all of my subtypes if that helps any)
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- 13w ago
It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
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- 12w ago
Hi, I’m new here!! I’m praying I don’t get judged for this. But, back in late May of 2022 ( literally right before I graduated high school), I added this one random girl from my school on Snapchat. She posted something about a graduation party , so I swiped up on her story basically saying how I can’t believe we’re almost graduated. She replied and we had a really short and simple conversation. The next day ( i believe) , we started talking a lot , and I just so happened to see her at the highschool when we were grabbing our graduation outfits and doing the rehearsal. When I saw her irl, I kinda got turned off ( I heard she was kinda crazy) , and on top of that , she was a little ugly irl. I remember seeing her Snapchat bio , and she was close friends with my female cousin ( a year younger than me) , who I happened to experiment sexually with when I was 10-11 years old. I remember going to work later that day and having sort of a lightbulb flick thought ( it wasn’t a good thought though) , what if my cousin told her about what happened when we were younger? So I started to kind of panic and immediately distanced myself from that girl. I also experimented sexually with one of my female friends when I was 10-11 , and from that day onwards, I’ve been pretty much living in paranoia and a little bit of guilt about someone finding out and my life being ruined . On top of that, It’s gotten worse to now sometimes I wonder if a girl I added off of quick add ( Snapchat) is underage even if they told me they were 18+ or had 18 and above in their bio, and I get so much guilt and anxiety about that. I even had a quick thought last February on what if I did something inappropriate with my younger cousin when I was 15-16 but I just can’t exactly remember when it happened , and it still eats me alive when I think about it, because I don’t know if it happened or not. I’m sorry for the long vent, I just wish I felt normal again. No matter how much I try to do things that old me used to do, life always feels “ off”. I always kept the top part about when I was younger a secret up until early (ish ) 2024, then I vented to one of my best friends and he told me that that’s a normal thing to do at a young age. Since then, I have told multiple friends and they all say they did similar stuff, but my brain just can’t accept that. Please help me, I quite literally overthink everything nowadays. 2021 was the last full year that I felt normal ( coincidentally, the best year of my life so far) . It’s not just about sexual related things either, sometimes I’ll wonder if I messed up something at work or hit a car while driving/hit someone and drove off. I just wanna live my life how I was supposed to live it after highschool ( carefree and happy) before whatever it is ( I think it’s ocd) hit me unexpectedly. Thanks to anyone who read this , I just needed to pour it out regardless of how negative I felt typing this, I hope someone can relate , because I feel so alone in my head at times.
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