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Hi! I’m a college student and having OCD during a pandemic and having classes has been particularly hard. I feel like the stress from online classes and lack of a regular schedule made it very easy for OCD thoughts to creep back in. I’ve been doing a lot worse lately. I recently had to start NOCD therapy as well as counseling for my other mental illnesses just so I could cope with it all. Unfortunately, I’m still very overwhelmed and I might drop out of the program I am in. I still plan to attend college, but just not in the specific learning program I’m in because it requires a decent amount of time and effort on top of all my classes.
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Thank you for sharing! I completely understand that, and know that if you have to abandon certain plans, that’s okay because mental health is more important. I completely understand because I’m taking 18 hours this semester and I’m not sure it was such a good idea now. I am extremely overwhelmed from work and OCD can make it hard to concentrate and get everything done.
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Hey, I’m also a college student. During Covid my contamination OCD has been worse which has made me limit which friends I see and stressed my relationship with my roommates. Plus my bf have to be long distance most of the time now so my relationship ocd are going crazy. On the plus side thought I’ve been able to do a lot of ocd research and figure out ways to get help! I’m always happy to talk if you ever want to.
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I would love to talk anytime! Contamination OCD also gets me, especially since my roommate boyfriend just got COVID recently :(
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@spyro Ooo I hope you’re staying safe. I don’t trust my roommates boyfriend either. I can never tell if I’m being the right amount of careful or if it’s the OCD
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Yes I’ve been washing my hands so much they are bleeding
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I feel the stuggle. I just posted soemthing about my college giving me a hard time for my OCD I feel your pain
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Hi! I’m also a college student dealing with ocd. My ocd started at the end of the fall semester and it was so overwhelming that I didn’t do as well as I wanted to during finals week. I sought out help and have been working with a NOCD therapist who I am so grateful for and have made so much progress on my road to recovery. The themes that I have been dealing with are hocd, religious ocd and some magical thinking revolving the law of attraction. At one point my ocd was telling me that school wasn’t even worth it bc the world was gonna end and I wasn’t gonna have a future lol (religious ocd)!! But something that helped me push through and find the motivation to fight ocd was focusing on MY wants and my goals, not what ocd tells me. Focus on what you want to achieve in life. You want that degree? Go get it!! You want to help make the world a better place and help those in need? Go do it!!! Dont let ocd stop you from what you want to do. It tends to attack the things that we hold dear to our hearts. Keep pushing and don’t lose sight of YOUR wants, and tell your ocd that you are stronger. I know it’s difficult but we’re all together in this!
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I remember reading a comment someone had made to one of my posts on an OCD subreddit and they told me how they believed their OCD symptoms got worse during a time in their life when they were socially isolated. Reading this comment made the brightest lightbulb go off in my head because it basically summarized most of what I’ve been going through. In addition to OCD, I also struggle with depression and social anxiety. I feel like these three things and the profound sense of loneliness I’ve felt throughout my years in college (undergrad) feed off of each other. I know that OCD can manifest in so many different ways regardless of what your social life looks like, but I can’t help but feel like the lack of relationships (specifically friendships)/community in my life has something to do with my mental health and the delay in my recovery. Side note: I’m still relatively new to NOCD, but I’m happy to say that I’ve been making some good progress in my therapy sessions <3
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I had avoided a lot with school specifically, but I did do it in other areas of life as well. School for some reason has been the biggest trigger that sends me into avoidance and it has been for the longest time. Does anybody relate? If so, what did you do to help besides therapy? In high school I used to sit in the bathroom stalls for hours so I could avoid going to classes. I was struggling to keep up because my OCD makes me perfect my school work so much so to the point where I’d never turn it in because I’d never be satisfied with what I’d produce. I’d get so incredibly frustrated with myself and the fact that I could never meet my own standards, never mind the rubrics given. I took ages analyzing all my writing, all my answers, all my google slides and I burnt myself out. So I stopped trying. I stopped turning in work because I’d never be satisfied. I’d cry because I felt I wasn’t good enough. Then I’d be missing assignments, getting them done but not submitting them because I was too ashamed. So, I avoided classes because I’d be in trouble or be called out for not getting anything done. Unfortunately this habit bled into my first year of college last year, and OCD coupled up with depression, made going to the dining hall and attending classes even worse. So I avoided it all together. It’s so hard being a freshman in college, so so hard. I unfortunately failed out of that school but I tried to medically withdraw either semester. No, I wasn’t partying, or drinking or smoking or hanging with the wrong people. I was a college freshman struggling with ocd and depression. I’m trying to not make excuses for myself either because I’m well aware this is my fault and I’m trying to reverse it now at community college. Right now I’m trying to get those Fs turned into Ws from my old school so I can fix my gpa. I want to transfer, I want to be a forensic psychologist, I want to be independent, I want to be ok. It’s gonna take me so long to transfer from community college but that’s on me. I’m willing to put in the work. I’m so embarassed, please help me.
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I’m 19 and struggle with health anxiety, contamination, harm, and magical thinking OCD and would love to meet people with similar experiences and hardships because I have never had an opportunity for such a supportive community!
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