- Username
- zeep
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I’m 14 and it started 2 months ago too but now I feel like I have less symptoms it scares me😣
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
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
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.
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:)
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”
ugh i hate it
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”
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)
So I have OCD about OCD itself. Like I will be talking about harm OCD or POCD that I struggle/struggled with as a kid and it come up sometimes now but it was rlly bad as a kid (I’m 16 now) and then I’ll worry “what if you don’t have harm ocd or pocd, and when you have pocd you can’t get the images and thoughts out of your head but because it doesn’t make you feel as physically sick as sexuality OCD what if I’m making my POCD and harm OCD up for attention?! Can anyone relate...
anyone else had ocd from a very young age? I’m talking like, I remember obsessions from when I was 6. and my family remembers my symptoms from even earlier. I didn’t get help until I was 15 because my family isn’t big on mental health. anyway, it frustrates me that I genuinely don’t know what it’s like to live without ocd. Sometimes I hear/see people talk about how they just wish things could back to how they were ‘before,’ or that imagining what their life was like before onset helps motivate them in recovery. But I don’t have anything like that. in fact, it’s almost scary to think about recovering completely because I don’t know anything else? it depresses me
anyone else ever think back to something they innocently did at a very young age and your ocd tells you it’s proof of whatever your worry or obsession is
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