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Gosh I love your energy! I also like that people with OCD always are so kind and supportive to one another, yet being our own best friend is so hard! Also about your situation, 100% valid to feel grief but don't think your best years are lost! You are very young and I can tell just by this text already you have a fighting spirit and you'll make it through!
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Thank you so much Chellie! Wishing you a life so great no one will even be able to tell OCD took a few years šā
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@Madison You too Madi ā”ā”
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Hi Chellie, I think thatās a totally normal feeling to have! I often felt the same way and compared myself to others my age who seemed like they had their whole life together while I was just striving to manage and keep my mental health in check. It took me two years longer to get my degree then my peers but I pressed on and it still felt just as great when I graduated from university. I learned that we all have our own paths and itās okay if ours look different from someone elseās. I will also say that the term āfour year degreeā is a generalization so donāt let that discourage you! Whether it takes four years or ten years if itās something you want then do it, even if itās at your own pace :) there are no ācheck marksā we have to hit at a certain age so donāt stress If you donāt have it all together yet! Hang in there
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Thank you so much for the kind words :) It's kinda nice to know I'm not alone in this, as OCD can feel so lonely at times! This app is a good reminder that we're not
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Ocd can definitely feel lonely but you are so right we most certainly are not alone. Hang in there, youāve got this!!
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OH MY GOODNESS. I was literally about to post something extremely similar. Iāve been housebound for 2.5 years (15-17) and Iām so discouraged about how the last couple years of my childhood are turning out. All my friends have graduated high school and know how to drive and Iām... not. Iām so behind in life. I feel super discouraged and I grieve the years of my life lost. My life is passing me by. Iām still struggling to apply ERP and I donāt know when Iām going to be better ā I donāt want to be dealing with OCD when I graduate with my other peers next year. š Iāve already lost extracurricular classes and proms and homecomings. By the time Iām done with OCD, Iāll be too old to be a kid and take classes and live a childhood like I wanted. I think itāll be all gone. š But the fact youāre doing better is AMAZING, and four years compared to the rest of your life and your potential is just a blip on the radar. If youāre doing better, go conquer your life again and make the most out of it you can, even with a few years gone. Brighter days are always ahead because you choose to make them. š Iām extremely discouraged right now too but I know Iām a winner and I WILL NOT have a victim mentality. If years of my life are lost, I canāt change that. I can still succeed and chase after my dreams and inspire others who have lost years of their life. We CAN overcome and rise up from the ashes with a victory mentality. We arenāt defeated just because we had to fight a battle! God is for us!
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I feel this so much, except the feeling better part because Iāve been at rock bottom for 6 months
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You can get there again! Try and live a normal life and take steps towards that :) I think you can handle more than you think!
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- 23w ago
Hi there I talk about religion (but I'm not trying to force it down anyone's throat) So my main event (which is the one that truly bothers me) happened in 2015 when I was 14. I won't go into any details or anything. I will say that it got so bad once that I almost committed something detrimental to my health earlier this year. Not long after that I spoke to a doctor and basically confessed what's been happening to my brain and my mistakes, he mentioned things that really resonated with me, I'll paraphrase a bit: "Okay, so what you did was not good but it's not something to condemn yourself for. It falls into the grey area, you've apologized and have been forgiven (even though I apologized over text, which comes across cowardly)but it seems that you haven't forgiven yourself. There's a whole lot of difference between you at 14 and you at 23. Try to have some perspective." This really helped and it still does, but unfortunately ocd tries to find a way around this. I'll get a thought of "oh but you forgot to mention that other part of the event" and it magnifies it. Can anyone relate? I've done everything but fully move on because I sometimes feel like I don't deserve to move on. And I'm still worried over the future.
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Iām wondering if this has happened to anyone elseā¦ Iām 28 years old. I was diagnosed with OCD when I was very young and it took a while, but I overcame it. I havenāt had any compulsions in 20 years. Iāve had some horrible things happen in the past, but nothing brought back my OCD. The only thing I struggle with is overthinking and making decisions. Im about to take a sabbatical from my work for a year to travel because the last year of my life has been by far the happiest and most confident iv ever been. I went to see a therapist a couple weeks ago who was an OCD specialist, I just wanted some tips and tricks for decision-making while Iām on my trip. She warned me that my OCD might get worse before it gets better, but I thought that she just meant with decision-making and overthinking. They have this program set out that I didnāt really wanna do but she told me it works really well so I decided to try it. Itās two sessions a week and the first two sessions were sort of just talking about my old OCD and doing questionnaires. I really related to some of the questionnaire questions, and the therapist was actively telling me that I definitely had OCD the whole time which made me feel bad. After our second session, my OCD came back full swing like when I was a child. I cant stop thinking about doing compulsions every waking second. Itās been two weeks. Iāve been to her several times and nothing is helping, Iām resisting the urge to do compulsions as much as I can and I feel like Iām fighting for my life. Nothing is helping and Iām burning out. I wake up and cry everyday because of how uncomfortable and out of control I feel. I never thought this would happen and im so mad at myself for ruining my trip. I feel like Iāve ruined my life tbh and even if I do get better, Iām always gonna be bothered by the constant fear that even at the highest and most happy points in my life it could just come back at any second with no warning signs.. I thought I knew how to deal with it and had the tools, but nothing is working this time and its ruining my life. Today I asked about cancelling my trip altogether, and I might be going on medical leave. Has this happened to anybody and do you have any tips for me?
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- 11w ago
I feel like in some ways receiving a diagnosis for OCD has in some ways made things worse. Iāve always had what I called āphasesā throughout life, which I now know were ocd episodes, but I didnāt really make too much of them and even if it was over several long difficult months, theyād always seem to kind of just pass. Recently Iāve begun my worse flare up in the last few years and now that Iām older I seemed professional help which led to my diagnosis. This all sounds great of course but I canāt actually afford therapy right now so I kinda just have the diagnosis but not the support so now that I realize these phases are actually this incurable mental illness I just feel like Iāve lost all hope that Iāll ever be happy and I feel like I basically obsess about obsessing at this point and it just sucks. Has anyone else had this or a similar experience?
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