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I’m 14 and it started 2 months ago too but now I feel like I have less symptoms it scares me😣
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yess omg i used to have so many symptoms (magical thinking, thought blocking, caring about if i looked gay to other ppl, rumination, confessing, etc) but now it’s basically just rumination. i feel like i’m losing the ocd part it’s so scary
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It’s so annoying because now every time I want to wear something that many lgbt use I feel like people at egonna think I’m gay/bi
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Most people don't show symptoms until 14-16. However, childhood is a trying time and I wouldn't jump the gun. I didn't get diagnosed until I was an adult and my symptoms didn't stop. When I was a teenager, I had intense HOCD. I had all the trimmings: a complusive porn watcher to test myself to different porns, I stared at people of the same sex, etc. I would have anxiety attacks about this. I started to pick my face excessively and I used to do other shit like bring nail polish to school so I could paint in class when I peeled it off. It was crazy making and when I got older I transitioned to complusive cleaning. The point is for you I would bank on "weird phase" because you don't want this. Here's the question for you: do you have unwanted repetitive thoughts that are totally outside of your control? Do you do something unhealthy or strange in response? That's the warnings.
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yea i have a lot of the symptoms of hocd right now so it probably is ocd but then again there are a lot of atypical things about my hocd, like i can’t remember a specific start, i had the thoughts pop into my mind from time to time before my hocd, i was thinking about it and feeling scared of being bi a couple months before it started, etc so i always am scared that this isn’t hocd and i try to look for more evidence to reassure myself that it is ocd, which i know is probably unhealthy haha. i do have unwanted repetitive thoughts, they are the first thought in the morning and the last thought before i fall asleep, i react by confessing on this app sometimes, ruminating, checking, and researching. i just bring up that phase bc it’s strange to me and it seems like the most ocd thing i’ve experienced during childhood, but it could just be me being weird too. thank you for your response:)
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Me too. It’s when it is first happening you look into it more but I think the more it’s in you it settles in and just goes around and a round “naturally”
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ugh i hate it
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i’m worried that this ocd because i don’t think i have ocd symptoms from before now (like in childhood)* also would like to add at the end “it feels like i don’t have as many symptoms as when this first started”
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A strong thing about having symptoms that seem like OCD is that even though those urges are strong, you can stop when needed. You can't do these anymore with OCD. For me, the symptoms that appeared at the beginning (i got diagnosed with OCD at 13) were things like, not being able to stop, feeling like something bad is going to happen if I don't go through with the compulsion, not being able to get rid of certain thoughts even if they extremly bothered me. But please remember, everyone has other symptoms, so look out! (Sorry if there are any grammatical errors, english is my second language)
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Hi I just have a few questions! (Im 14 btw) Okay so basically I’m really worried I’ll become a pedo/I already am and I don’t know it yet. I’m also really scared if I SA someone, even tho I don’t want to and I’d never do something like that but I feel like this part of me is saying that I will and it’s really scaring me. I feel so alone and I’m so scared I’m a bad person on the inside and this isn’t ocd and I’m gonna unleash hell on this earth I’m so scared. I’ll get a thought like if I’m walking past someone random it will be like “What if you sa them?” And it scares me so bad I feel horrible for thinking that. Is this apart of it? I feel like I’m always fixated on the topic of sa to check if I would do something like that, I don’t know anymore I just feel like a bad person (btw I have not done anything like that to anyone!)
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so. oh lord. half my ocd symptoms could be autism. (not that im looking for a triple diagnosis including adhd, its just interesting to explore) this little ol rabbit hole started with my friend, who happens to be autistic and passionate about how their own condition works, when they started slowly easing the convo into an autism screening and by the time i realized what he was doing it was “oh my god ur kinda right i might be wrong for denying all this time that i could have autism” always thought my experience with texture/sensory as a toddler (and now) was ocd, because thats mainly what made adults call me ocd, more blatant ocd signs aside (such as touching things “just right”, ordering items etc) wondered why i was like that when theres not even a *direct* link between ocd and sensory issues (not the same as somatic ocd) thought i just happen to be an extremely sensitive person since i was born, now realizing that couldve been a sign of autism, along side many more “quirks” ive always had anyone with autism and ocd that can tell me what their experience is like? what about when u were children? especially if u snuck under the radar until u were older, my parents have said only a few times in the moment that i remind them of an autistic kid but dont think i have it
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TW! please someone comment When I was 12 or 13 I used to babysit a little girl, she had a habit of keeping her hand in her diaper and was always touching herself, there was one point I was changing her diaper and noticed she was really red. I had separated her private parts and checked the inner area for signs of infection. She was okay, just some really really bad diaper rash. I know this is what happened yet my brain is trying to convince me that I hurt her, and that I wanted to do it, I know I would never hurt a child but with all the anxiety I feel when I think about it I'm starting to wonder if I did do it because I wanted to hurt her, I don't wanna be a p, I don't wanna hurt innocent children, I used to never have these thoughts but now I do and I'm so scared to tell my therapist as she hasn't diagnosed me with ocd yet. I don't want her to think I'm a p nor do I wanna hurt kids, but my brain keeps telling me that I do and that I'm just lying to myself and everyone around me, ik I would never do something that could harm a child but I keep getting these thoughts and their inappropriate and I just want them to stop, does anyone have any tips on how to help myself? I keep turning to my boyfriend for reassurance but ik that that's just a quick fix and that ill be spiraling about it again.Please help
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