Hey guys, gather around. Let's share our stories on how you came to know about OCD and how you realized you had it. For me: Somewhere earlier the year 2020, I watched this series called La Casa De Lapel aka The Money Heist. I was so obsessed with the series especially how smart the main character known as The Professor who lead a heist against the Royal Mint of Spain, so I begun to do a research about the him and how smart he was in the movie, fortunately I found out that he portrayed traits such as taking his tasks or the plan of the heist so important that he barely attend to his own personal needs of humanity needs as a person, perfectionism and a lot more of someone who is likely to have OCD which I realised I also have in common with him in the series. By then I never knew what OCD was so I googled it and learnt more about it then i begun to realize i was actually having it.

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i found out a couple of years ago when i saw something online about intrusive thoughts and realized that was what was happening to me. i had always felt crazy and didn’t know what was going on and was too scared to tell anyone until i found out that it was actually a real thing and that i wasn’t crazy lol. i was taking a general psych class at the time and learned about it there and that was i realized the full extent of what i had. i told my best friend about it then but was too scared to tell my parents until about a week ago. i am 17 and my earliest memories of intrusive thoughts were when i was about 8 i think. i remember not wanting to step on certain parts of the floor because i was afraid that it would hurt someone and one time i remember my parents had to take the soap away from me because i was so afraid of germs that i gave myself a rash washing my hands so much. i’m glad to have finally realized what OCD is and i cant wait to start getting help.

When I was younger I displayed bag checking and checking use by dates and thought it was normal. Then 2028 came I started to display more compulsions and I also had intrusive thoughts. Last year I had suspicions that maybe I do have ocd and this year my close friend messaged me and said that I do have ocd.