- Username
- k. b.
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Everyone's experience of OCD is very different. Just because one of your friends has a more 'traditional' type, such as counting and checking it doesn't mean the type you're suffering with is not OCD. Of course we cannot diagnose you, but I do think it sounds like you're definitely experiencing OCD. The best thing to do is to speak to your parents and try to get in touch with a therapist for some CBT. If you're embarrassed you don't have to go into depth about the content of your thoughts, but the fact you're finding it so distressing is a sign that this is OCD. Keep your chin up, accept the uncertainty, and speak to someone xxxxx
Although this sounds like it very well could be OCD, you should book an appointment with a psychiatrist to confirm that the symptoms you are having are related to OCD. Just because you’ve heard that OCD is more common for counting and hand washing, there are many different subtypes with mental compulsions as well. It is unique to the individual, and I do advise you see someone about this.
From the description, you do have obsessions, despite in a form different from the others. It depends on how much these obsessions interfere with your life.
These sexual fear themes are really, really common for OCD (this is how my OCD presents itself when it’s rearing its head—and when it first started happening, I thought I was going nuts and didn’t believe I had OCD because I’d only ever heard of it as cleaning or checking rituals). If you want to look into it more, try looking into Pure O OCD. Like everyone suggested though, you should go to a therapist or psychiatrist to get diagnosed, but I suggest going to one that specializes in OCD so that you can be as open as possible about your thoughts—they’ve heard it all many times before. Unfortunately with the sexual fears theme, there are a lot of therapists out there unfamiliar with OCD who can make you feel worse because they don’t understand. The International OCD Foundation is a really good resource for finding help: https://iocdf.org/. Hang in there! (Also, if you are offered medication, know that medication can help a lot with OCD, even sexual ocd, and it’s really common to combine medication with CBT. It took me a long time to accept that too—so if you feel you need that extra relief/extra help, don’t buy into the stigma against medication).
I completely get how you're feeling. I constantly feel like I'm just being a hypochondriac, looking for the symptoms so that I have something. It's so difficult to figure out whether the doubt is OCD or whether it's just a more realistic side of me telling me to stop being dramatic. Definitely agree that it's worth trying to see someone (more than a GP, because they can make you feel even more like a hypochondriac in my opinion) and hopefully get a better understanding of what's going on. I know with me I think I'd find it easier if I could just put a label to whatevers going on inside my head.
I don’t know if what I have is OCD or just severe anxiety.. I’m really confused. Every time I do something that I feel bad about I will think about it for ages and it will ruin my day, and feel guilty. I keep getting emotional all the time and feel distressed , as if something is off but I can’t explain. Occasionally I have the urge to confess things and if I don’t they will be In my head making me not feel present. And I keep focusing on my partner and getting the urge to break up when I don’t actually want that (of course I have doubts like everyone does) but it’s more of a urgent upsetting feeling which hasnt left for 5 months, the only time it seems to go away temporarily is when I’m with him. and I’m soooo confused. My therapist told me I would have had OCD as a child so I can’t have it (I’m 20 years old but I don’t know what is going on with me). Starting to think I’m going insane as this has been going on for several months now!
Hi idk how to start this but Im a 16 year old dude any My therapist says I have PTSD, Panic Disorder and maybe ADHD. Im pretty sure Im autistic, same with my mom and brother and many other family members. for years now ive had my friends telling me to get checked for OCD and im starting to think they might be right. anyways, for one thing, I get like really bad intrusive thoughts. Its really hard for me to be around kids, I cant stop thinking about horrible things happening wether its me messing up and hurting them or me hurting them on purpose, usually sexually. I have always been overly concered with seeming creepy in romantic relationships. Ive only dated one person younger than me EVER and its one of my current partners (polyamory) and shes a day younger than me and even that makes me feel like a creep whos taking Advantage of her, I cry if I sit with my partners while they sleep and im awake becaude im scared im going to hurt them, I wont Initiate intimate acts at all because If I do I will cry because it cant not feel like rape to me if I initate. Numbers. Holy shit the numbers. I count my steps, I count how many times I adjust my hair, I count how many food items im eating, everything. and If I dont I feel like Ive done it wrong somehow. I have to press the crosswalk the right amount of times or i feel like ill get hit, I have to wash my hands using the right amount of steps and repeating them the right amount of times or Ill get sick and Ill throw up (I have ptsd from a major sickness when I was a kid, and my triggers are almost all related to throwing up). I dont know if theyre intrusive thoughts, but I also get intense images or thoughts that are so intense I think they are real, of me hurting myself, hurting others, throwing up, other throwing up. I think it is worth mentioning that I have HPPD, and some pretty intense Halluzinations from past psycedellic and delirent drug use. My have bad memory from using but even before then Ive always thought that maybe Im not remembering right and I freak out about it and ask family if im tripping myself out or i remember it right. Idk theres definately more to this that i dont feel like typing, I just want to know if Im tripping myself out or its actually OCD, I want to know before I being it to my parents or my therapist. Help!
I’ve always had a feeling of having OCD but I’ve never been sure. I’m a teenager, and I’m hoping people on this app can help me try to figure out if I have OCD or I’m just crazy. Starting off with these terrible thoughts I have all the time. Someone can come home late and I immediately think they got into a car wreck, and check my phone for recent car crashes and other thing etc. etc. number 2, I always have intrusive thoughts, terrible ones ever since I was a kid I can’t control. I immediately feel like thinking these will lead god to hate me, and that he made an imperfection on me. And every time I try to hide these thoughts away, like right now they’re coming out I just can’t stop thinking of them and it’s so hard to do anything. Just thoughts like, “you hate your mom” or, “you hate god” and stuff that scares me like spiders. It’s hard to do anything with these thoughts. I’m also a major perfectionist, if anything is out of order I freak out. Yes, my room is messy. But I feel a sense of incompleteness and anxiety if I don’t empty the dishwasher, or don’t clean dirty dishes around the sink. These are recent and I feel like God will punish me for committing the sin of laziness. I also have a thing with the number 5, when I touch something it needs to be 5 times and if it’s not 5 times I freak out. I’m also terrified of getting sick, every time my friend is sick I freak out and don’t get near them the entire day, constantly washing my hands. Writing this is triggering a lot of my terrible thoughts and I don’t want to continue writing. Please let me know your thoughts, mental illness runs in my family but my mom is constantly telling me there’s nothing wrong with me. Maybe she’s right.
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