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My advice is just say you have OCD thoughts and leave it at that
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I'm sorry that happend to you. I hope your friend will come around and change how he's acting. I told one friend about it she was nice but started acting like the thoughts were true which was triggering. Defintely wish I said nothing. This person in my family I worry will tell everyone and go off the deep end š I will just say I'm going to therapy for ocd and leave it at that.
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Yes I've told someone else in my family and they handled it fine, but this is the last person I'd want to know š«
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Actually i broke down couple months ago, i couldn't even eat my food and i hugged my mom and cried and told her my gay intrusive thoughts. She told me its okay she has intrusive thoughts here and there. I'm a guy in case you don't know
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I'm glad your mom had a good response mine has too! She's the main person I told. I go in more detail though with the ocd group as they seem to get it more of course or not jump to conclusions.
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Same boat as you, i told my friend about it, he's heen distant since then, which pissed me off
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I told them briefly about it, like only one of the themes I experience, harm ocd. That was the easiest to tell them but they still aren't sure what it exactly feels like and it's okay, they don't know how it feels, only we know, all they can do is believe in us and support us without giving meaningless advices that could actually trigger us more and harm us.
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i wrote my mom a long text with links and stuff about it. she wants to get me help but i donāt want my dad to know and i really dont want to talk about it so i havenāt gotten help yet. iām reluctant to tell anyone just in case it is not ocd, and also i know they wouldnāt understand and they would judge me.
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The truth is, it is hard but worth it. For 2 years I did not tell them until I broke down. My dad was little bit angry, why I did not told him earlier because he wanted to be for me there.
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It was soooo tough. I finally just had to tell someone and I talked to my mom. I was so worried my family wouldnāt love me and that they would reject me. After I opened up about it, the thoughts disappeared. I think youāll find the same is true for you.
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LONG VENT POST: This is my second post of the day. Seriously, I am SO sorry. I have therapy tomorrow, I promise I will shut up after this lmao. Anyway, for Memorial Day weekend, I spent it at my aunt/uncles vacation house. Fortunately it wasnāt a big crowd - just my mom, grandmother, aunt, uncle and I. For context, I come from a pretty big family, and I am the youngest of 7 cousins and a younger sister to two brothers. All my cousins are in their early to mid 20ās, each very successful in school and their careers. My half brother is 29, and absolutely crushing it. My full brother is turning 23, heās also doing amazing with school. I just turned 20 in April, I feel very lost. I know I want to be a forensic psychiatrist one day, and that I want my PhD. I want to be the best therapist I can be, but the fact that I barely get by with ocd/adhd has been discouraging me, so I currently feel like a flop. Anyway though, spending time with my aunts/uncles/cousins/grandparents triggers my ocd the most, as majority of them can be on the judgmental side. ESPECIALLY my aunt, sheās on my moms side, and she and my mom are total opposites. My aunts a very calculated, straightforward, logical, stern, sassy buisnesswoman. Sheās successful, but lacks a lot of understanding and can be so cold and just mean. My moms a kindergarten teacher in a struggling community, and sheās always thinking about others before herself, extremely emotional, caring, but neglects her own needs a lot. Theyāre sisters, and they bump heads a ton. My aunt and all of her kids arenāt neurodivergent. They simply donāt understand mental health. My mom does, thank god. My aunt and uncle think that if a kid is having a psychotic break, then that kid should be kicked out of the house and not helped at all. My mom and I entirely disagree with this idea, and that someone clearly mentally suffering NEEDS mental health help asap, and they need to be home. The streets are the last place someone suffering should be. While we were vacationing at the house, my mom argued about this with my uncle. I was asleep, thank god, but I seriously hate having people in my family like this. I can never tell them about me having ocd, theyāll think itās just an āexcuseā for not getting things done, or just me trying to feel special. The reality is, they donāt get it. My full brother went through the worst psychotic break a few years ago. It lasted two years on and off due to bipolar disorder, but thank god he got himself help and heās doing absolutely amazing now. Heās frustrated and embarassed with himself but now heās on track, and as I said, crushing it with school. But the entire time he was going through this, my aunt and uncle just didnāt understand. To keep it short, they thought his mental problems were behavioral, and that heās a ācrazyā kid. The reality is, he was coping with the loss of his childhood best friend and our other uncle who was like a second father figure to us. He had manic episodes from the grief and self medicating with drugs and alcohol. This was all the while Covid was happening and he was a freshman at a college states away. He was so vunerable. Iām saying all this because, well, how am I to seriously be forward about my mental struggles when they couldnāt even show the slightest amount of empathy to my brother, who was struggling, so much more intensely than me? Iām quiet at family gatherings when theyāre around for this exact reason. I have so much resentment toward them for it. I try to avoid them when I can, because I love them, I just hate their actions/views. What do you guys do with these kinds of people?
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I was super recently diagnosed with OCD and nervous to share my diagnosis with my family. Iām a somewhat messy person and donāt have germophobic tendencies, so since I donāt have the stereotypical OCD presentation I was terrified that nobody would believe me. I ended up talking to my mom and making a silly TikTok post about it, which my grandma saw. Not only did they believe and support meāI learned that my grandma has it too! Funny to look back on, but really cool to see that the worst outcome doesnāt always happen. (:
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How do you tell friends and family about ocd? Like it makes me so anxious and I feel like such a terrible person. A lot of my intrusive thoughts are on my kids. And I hate every single thing that comes into my head.
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