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Mine just started during quarantine and I’m 28 however I look back and wonder about earlier issues I’ve had
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I definitely feel that quarantine boosted my ocd into action. But i also try looking back to see if ive showed symptoms prior to this happening. And looking back that’s definitely the case. But all this negativity going on in the world definitely doesn’t help
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yea same for me I am 28 and it has blown up during quarantine......the trigger happened one year earlier but thanks to lockdown, i had a lot of time to confront my fears lol
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I had OCD related intrusive thoughts an quirks throughout my childhood, including obsessive hand washing, re-reading sentences over and over until it felt right, re-writing until it felt right, having intrusive thoughts that I was praying to satan and then praying to God to fix it, and answering “maybe/maybe not” to questions to avoid the potential of lying. I had an eating disorder in high school. But I didn’t have a full blown OCD episode until I was 23.
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Exactly the same
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I was 19 when I had developed symptoms of ocd I am now 21 and got diagnosed this year.
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I displayed bag checking when I was younger and checking use by dates. I had gotten more compulsions in 2018 and had my first intrusive thought in 2018. My ocd had gotten worse from covid and the death of my grandad.
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I was 11 when I realized something was wrong, and then I re-realized it at 19, but wasn’t diagnosed until 31.
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I remember the day. I was 24. Now I am 27. Mental health professionals say it was triggered by my substance abuse of cannabis. I haven't touched weed or alcohol since 2017 and obviously never will again. 😊❤️❤️
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Congratulations!!. 3 years free.
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@Bex. Aww thank you!! Yes praise God! He opened my eyes and I became a Christian a few months after that
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@ButterflyStar Thats so awesome. Sometimes we have to hit rock bottom before we realize we need the Lord.
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@Dre83 Yes 100%!!
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I was 23 and i remember the exact day and moment it started, like my brain had a switch. I’m 24 now
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recently i’m 17
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I’m 19 too, and honestly I have been struggling with OCD for so long and never realized. I also had anxiety & took medication for it, but a lot of these disorders are all tied together it sucks.
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I was around 11/12 when I realised that something was wrong with my brain, now that I’m 18 and aware of it more and understand it more, I realise I’ve had it from being a child.
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i was around 12/13 and it was when my parents split up, i think the stress brought it on quickly. i didn’t deal with it much until this year at 23 where it came on again very strong.
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Started out of nowhere at age 19 ... now I'm 26
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I must of been about 8 I was terrified I was going to hurt my family then it calmed down and came back really badly a year ago but I always had signs through my childhood (I’m 15 btw)
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I was 19 when I had my first real episode. When it 1st started I dont think I knew it was OCD. I'm 26 now and have kept it under wraps for a few years, but its came back full swing the last few months. I didnt know as a kid but I can see a lot of the stuff I did as a kid was OCD. (Counting, some Harm OCD where I'd never stay the night anywhere out of fear my parents would get hurt and I wouldn't be there, fear of setting things on my dog and hurting them, & some other small things.) This is my 1st time trying counciling with an OCD specialist. I have my 3rd session next week. Im ready to fight this thing.
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I started noticing my OCD was a problem and started getting physical symptoms when I was 17 I am now 22
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I was 17 going on 18 when my first episode happened. Wasn’t diagnosed until I just turned 19.
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same with me, I remember the exact moment , the fact it has gone to change my life and become such a big thing, ofcourse i remember that insane moment...i could have done without it tbh
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22 :( it was December last year
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Was 4 or 5 with contamination OCD it fluctuated and jus got worse and themes changed over time untill I was diagnosed at 12/13 now 17 and only jus getting councilling.
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Mine was at 36 and mine was from stress and getting way to high after not smoking weed in nearly 10 years. Im now 37. It's only been 7 months for me
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Probably around 15 or 16 but I'm 18 now
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It was 2 months ago a month after my 16th birthday :(
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Ever since I can remember. Was home alone a lot and startes flicking light switches
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*started
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I’m 25, only got diagnosed at about 22/23, but I realised there were so many signs smaller compulsions that started in my childhood and got worse after bereavement at age 10
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I was diagnosed at 16 but like.... I’ve definitely had it for years LOL
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Anyone else develop it in their 30s? I’m 33 and just started showing symptoms in October 2024. So far have only been diagnosed with GAD , PD and depression.I started having intrusive thoughts after a series of panic attacks . My compulsions would be googling. I have made an effort to stop though because it only makes me feel worse. My intrusive thoughts have been around fear of going crazy
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Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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Hi, I’m new here!! I’m praying I don’t get judged for this. But, back in late May of 2022 ( literally right before I graduated high school), I added this one random girl from my school on Snapchat. She posted something about a graduation party , so I swiped up on her story basically saying how I can’t believe we’re almost graduated. She replied and we had a really short and simple conversation. The next day ( i believe) , we started talking a lot , and I just so happened to see her at the highschool when we were grabbing our graduation outfits and doing the rehearsal. When I saw her irl, I kinda got turned off ( I heard she was kinda crazy) , and on top of that , she was a little ugly irl. I remember seeing her Snapchat bio , and she was close friends with my female cousin ( a year younger than me) , who I happened to experiment sexually with when I was 10-11 years old. I remember going to work later that day and having sort of a lightbulb flick thought ( it wasn’t a good thought though) , what if my cousin told her about what happened when we were younger? So I started to kind of panic and immediately distanced myself from that girl. I also experimented sexually with one of my female friends when I was 10-11 , and from that day onwards, I’ve been pretty much living in paranoia and a little bit of guilt about someone finding out and my life being ruined . On top of that, It’s gotten worse to now sometimes I wonder if a girl I added off of quick add ( Snapchat) is underage even if they told me they were 18+ or had 18 and above in their bio, and I get so much guilt and anxiety about that. I even had a quick thought last February on what if I did something inappropriate with my younger cousin when I was 15-16 but I just can’t exactly remember when it happened , and it still eats me alive when I think about it, because I don’t know if it happened or not. I’m sorry for the long vent, I just wish I felt normal again. No matter how much I try to do things that old me used to do, life always feels “ off”. I always kept the top part about when I was younger a secret up until early (ish ) 2024, then I vented to one of my best friends and he told me that that’s a normal thing to do at a young age. Since then, I have told multiple friends and they all say they did similar stuff, but my brain just can’t accept that. Please help me, I quite literally overthink everything nowadays. 2021 was the last full year that I felt normal ( coincidentally, the best year of my life so far) . It’s not just about sexual related things either, sometimes I’ll wonder if I messed up something at work or hit a car while driving/hit someone and drove off. I just wanna live my life how I was supposed to live it after highschool ( carefree and happy) before whatever it is ( I think it’s ocd) hit me unexpectedly. Thanks to anyone who read this , I just needed to pour it out regardless of how negative I felt typing this, I hope someone can relate , because I feel so alone in my head at times.
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