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- Bex
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- 6y ago
Mine is checking things like the doors are locked. Also moving stuff around if it doesn’t feel right, repeating things I read in my head until i think it feels right. Doing stuff a certain amount of times. I rlly don’t know how that would benefit my situation or how they’d have anything to do with eachother but maybe the stressful situation brought it out
Gotcha, I was just curious because I think this is one type of OCD I have and I haven’t seen anyone else post about this. It’s kind of hard for me to identify what my obsessions actually are because they aren’t as obvious as some other types of OCD like the article says.
Liam do you think it could be a maturity thing , like maybe we took on responsibilities we didn’t need to
I think what you’re looking at here is correlation, not causation. For me, I can’t identify a specific event that triggered the onset of my OCD. Also it’s important to note that not every person who experiences a traumatic event will develop OCD, so there is definitely more at play in the development. You might have a correlation between something you experienced and the development of the disorder, but I don’t think it’s correct to call that the cause. OCD is a pretty complex disorder, and I feel that attributing it to just one thing is a little bit oversimplified.
I’ve read that as well and I agree it can play a part, But I think calling it the “cause” is not quite right. Like I said, there are people who go through traumatic events who don’t develop this disorder.
Thanks
My older brother that I grew up with turned into a drug addict. A few years ago when my parents were trying to help him and brought him back to live with us, it went really badly, lots of fights, police calls etc and it was really stressful. I didn’t handle it well cuz I was only like 15. I think my ocd started a little while after that. Idk if that’s the direct cause but it could have something to do with it
I’m sorry to hear that , what is your compulsion and why do you do it , what did you believe in that moment , what was the perceived benefit at the time
Mine started after I lost my nan who I cared for when she was unwell
No, do you all see therapy for ocd?
That’s so terrible @Bex and @liam
There’s always a root cause for it , I used to check doors to keep people safe , but when I realised it doesn’t matter if I check them or not I can’t stop bad things from happening , I don’t have magical powers, and it didn’t make me happy , I did see someone for one of my ocds , haven’t had anymore therapy , you just have to find out what works for you
I haven’t been to therapy or anything like that
Stressful situations can start them , what do you think will happen if you didn’t do your compulsion ? Realising that the compulsion serves you no purpose and doesn’t make you happy shows that the ocd isn’t true because we create them to make us feel comfort , but what the ocd is really doing is making us unhappy , which means the ocd isn’t true
It’s interesting how many people can pinpoint their OCD really ramping up after experiencing trauma. I can def look back throughout my life and see where I’ve had OCD trickled throughout, but mine also really started after experiencing trauma. It’s when my symptoms became unmanageable.
@liam is this the type of OCD you are experiencing? https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Just-right-OCD-Fact-Sheet.pdf
That sounds pretty similar. I just read that yesterday after you told me about just right ocd
Mine started after my father told me God understood my thoughts and talked to me about blasphemy. I started getting really terrified I would commit blasphemy in my mind and have been watching my thoughts ever since.
Liam, I have the exact same type of compulsions and I don’t know what caused them. You’re not alone!?
We will be free of ocd one day
How old were you guys when it started
Christian , just realise the ocd thoughts aren’t actually you , so even if god saw those thoughts he’d know they weren’t of your making
Mine started this year so 14, but I did have a stage of it when I was 9.
I was 16 when mine started , I’ve heard it usually starts in childhood because we feel we can’t control something , so to have some control , we unintentionally create an ocd
Christian sometimes I think that god wants me to do something a certain way for some reason even tho it makes no sense and I know he wouldn’t care one bit, but then it’s like well I’m thinking god cares and still not doing it so maybe it rlly would offend him and it just spirals from there
Bex mine also started at 16
I wish I knew, but mental health problems also seem to kind of run in my moms side of the family so for me at least I think maybe a combinatikn
Bex how old are you now
I believe the younger the age your OCD started, the more likely it is that genetics played a role in the development of it.
They run in my dads side aswell , it could be , but I think it has to do with upbringing as mine wasn’t good , I’m 23 , how old are you
I’m 18 now
Time flies doesn’t it
Definitely
I agree, but I read stressful situations can be a factor in bringing it out
My parents divorced and after that I got a lot of intrusive thoughts of me smoking cigarettes and doing morally bad things for myself and religious stuff. So as I’m a lot older now it’s gone to HOCD & ROCD as well as fears of having personality disorders bc I fear being a bad person and not being able to love my boyfriend or feel empathy
I have come to believe one of the root causes is fear. For many people their fears have caused them to take part in these routines and/or intrusive thoughts in order to make themselves feel safer even if they grow out of these fears. Contamination OCD is similar because people with this are afraid of getting sick and/or injured. Fear is obviously not the only factor, but it’s definitely one of them
@Liam there’s online therapy: https://www.betterhelp.com/gethelpnow/
One of my themes of OCD is POCD and I’m always obsessing about how someone becomes a pedo, were they born with it (and if they were born with it then what exactly caused them to be that way, is it genetic, is it due to childhood abuse/neglect? My OCD tries to constantly rationalize how they happen to have those sort of genuine attractions… and it starts to scare me that there isn’t an answer as to how people develop those attractions
for those with sexual orientation ocd.. if you are comfortable sharing (and if you remember), what was the moment/person/place/etc. that first triggered your sexual orientation ocd? i’m just genuinely curious and want to see if there are any patterns. for me it was the summer before my freshman year of high school (i am currently 21). i was going to a pride parade with some family friends and was texting a guy that i ended up dating for a while. to be quite frank, he was a total idiot. he asked what was up and i told him that i was going to a pride parade with some friends. his immediate response was “wait does that mean that you are gay??”. i remember that i got this weird sensation of panic after i read that text. and his question like stayed lingering in my mind for longer than it should have. long story short, my sexual orientation ocd really kicked in halfway through my freshman year of high school..but i didn’t realize that that was what it was until about 2 years ago.
I believe I’ve always had intrusive/OCD thoughts. When I was younger I always repeated phrases because my brain went “if you don’t do this your whole family will die” but it wasn’t anything too bad. However, when I was 15 I entered my first relationship. I had divorced parents and didn’t know what love was - so it ended up being abusive and I did not know. He forced me to disclose all the people I found attractive as well as all the “unpure” thoughts I had. He deemed fantasizing cheating - which I respected - but also caused for a lot of intrusive thoughts to make me freak out. He also gaslit me and accused me of cheating for the lightest things (gave my cousin a side-hug) and prohibited me from getting male friends because he thought I’d cheat (I’ve never been unfaithful or even flirted w another man. I’ve always had strong morals about it) I believe this trauma is what made my ocd what it is now, since I’m used to being accused for stuff I didn’t understand or have control over. I believe that understanding OCDs roots allows me to heal because it reminds me that I could exist without this thoughts and still had a good moral compass.
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