Does anyone else feel like their ocd is kinda unexplained? I am lucky enough to not had any childhood trauma or any type of trauma really and ocd doesn’t run in my family. I guess I am kinda confused why I have it if that makes sense.

OCD is really strange in the sense that there’s a common theme of it possibly being caused by childhood trauma/ptsd BUT it’s also sooooo common that it’s not caused by anything at all. It just truly goes to show how it is a brain disorder. Literally our brains just work differently than other people’s. And that’s okay. An MRI can show when someone has OCD ! Fun fact.

OMG SAME I can’t totally clarify what type I have if you need to talk let’s talk any time :)

Ocd can be caused from stress or the death of a loved one.

SAME OMG

I am the same! I have servere OCD and strange tendencies and I have no childhood trauma and it doesn’t run in my family.

Same! I was always sorta anxious as a kid but that’s it. I was a ‘worrier’ as such. I did have a traumatic experience when I was 4 but I kinda forgot about it till I was like 14 so it clearly didn’t affect me that much until then. And my OCD first showed up when I was 10 years old for a summer, and then went (idk how) before coming back when I was 14. That was before I remembered the trauma though so it wasn’t that. I guess my dad is more likely to have OCD than my mum but it really isn’t something that runs in our family.

Yeah same here - I always considered myself an anxious person but it was never servere whatsoever. I had a great childhood with no abuse or trauma and from what I’m aware of no OCD running in my family (though I think my dad’s family might have had at least anxiety in some individuals). I thinking mine appeared because I had a predisposition to it and it opened up with i dealt with severe stress and anxiety - the perfect storm, if you will. Months before it appeared, I had a very severe anxiety episode that I’ve never had before which lasted a week and a half. I think it was triggered by stress because I was recently recovering from a strong bout of the flu, had recently moved into a new home with my family into a neighborhood I wasn’t fond of and out of a neighborhood I really enjoyed and spent my formative years in, and I also went on vacation with a friend who we just had a huge shift in our relationship dynamic (for the better but still new). That anxiety episode happened on the trip and I had to fly back home immediately where I spent the next week and a half unable to eat, sleep, or generally function due to anxiety. After it went away and months were fine, I had another trip coming up, this time with my family. I’m pretty sure the concept of a trip was my trigger because the last epiosde happened on a trip. One week before the trip I had yet another anxiety epiosde similar to the one before. I believe this was the “storm” to spawn my OCD. On the third day of this i had a very troubling intrusive thought that absolutely terrified me. It was THAT intrusive thought in that awful circumstance which I think triggered my OCD. It was basically from then on that it stayed and made my life what it is now. Wild!!