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- 4y ago
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.
But that also goes to show that it means that ANYONE, can recover and defeat OCD:) no matter what the background is.
That makes sense
OMG SAME I can’t totally clarify what type I have if you need to talk let’s talk any time :)
Omg ok do you have a discord?
@takingdownocd Yes!!!
@takingdownocd But how old are you?
@isabellatate I am 17. How old are you?
@takingdownocd Oh really??? I am a lot younger I think we should just talk on here maybe or idk something like that. Because I am 5 years younger :T but oh well I think we should just stick to here.😅
@isabellatate Ok that’s ok! :)
@isabellatate Are you in therapy rn?
@takingdownocd No I am not.
@takingdownocd Do you mean like do I have a therapist or something else?
@isabellatate Yeah like an OCD one.
@takingdownocd No I do not :T
Ocd can be caused from stress or the death of a loved one.
Ahhhh
SAME OMG
It sucks lol I just wanna figure it out
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.
It’s kinda weird lol
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!!
I’m so sorry :(. How have you coped? and also this is random but are you Evelyn from the NOCD video lol?
@takingdownocd Since starting therapy it’s been getting better, some days better than others! And omg yes I am, that’s so awesome you saw that! :)
@Evelyn4416 Nice! And yes lol I’ve always wondered if that was you cause I always saw the name Evelyn lol.
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
I listen to a lot of ocd podcasts and watch a lot videos read a lot of articles. And I’m recently feeling a bit worried when I hea stories about how ocd has manifested in other people’s lives. A lot of people talk about experiencing some perfectionism as a kid, often counting or being afraid of germs. I don’t temper experiencing such things. I don’t think I’ve ever struggled with contamination ocd. I’ve only really struggled with pure o types of ocd. This leads me to worry “maybe it’s not ocd.” Does anyone else feel this way?
MY OCD STORY I’d like to tell you guys my ocd story because why it happened is still a mystery to me. I have never dealt with ocd for my life. I only dealt with some thoughts recently that I would worry about and obsess about but...most of my ocd thoughts would be something that my ex boyfriend would say. For example. My ex boyfriend would say things like, “I’d fuck her” about a random girl. Now I get those thoughts and deal with sexual ocd trying to repress those thoughts. Another thing is my ex used to say weird things about girls younger than him. Way younger, and talk about their body and how they’ve changed so much since the last time they’ve he’s seen them. This caused me to struggle with pocd. Anybody have any thoughts about this? I am not trying to blame him but just wonder if someone else had this experience or can explain what more this experience means for me. My therapist calls these traumatic memories, which I then obsess about.
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