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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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How to know if you actually have it or if I’m just making up the symptoms? I have a lot of intrusive thoughts constantly and even have a “theme” but it really surged after I search up what I was experiencing, but then again I search up a lot of what I experience and constantly have to recheck things. My parents say I’m normal but I know I’m not, (both of my siblings have adhd) I find it immensely hard to focus from turning 17-18. Please let me know what you think l! Thanks!
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So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
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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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