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Hi Matt! I’m Cassidy! I’ve struggled with severe OCD since I was 4 years old. I was the most severe case my well known psychiatrist has ever seen. I suffer from all types of OCD. I used to have a lot compulsions but as of just recently I have been able to stop them almost completely. I do however unfortunately have intrusive thoughts. They come and go but currently they have been around for 2 months. I currently have two therapy appointments a week and am on quite a bit of meds, which I always have been. I currently am on 700mg of Seroquel, 200mg of Zoloft, 200mg of Lamictal, and 30mg twice a day of Buspar. I’m currently pregnant so I was on Klonopin (0.50 mg twice a day) but unfortunately I cannot take it. Everyday is a battle but you are not alone and I’m so glad you are able to share with us. ❤️
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Also I’m 25!
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Hi Matt, we made a support group if you're interested ❤ https://t.me/joinchat/iddAfyrudnI4ZjA8
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I would love to join! Can I?
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@LuLaBelle95! Sure!!
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@Clairslemon I think the link already expired! Do you know if there is a new one?
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@LuLaBelle95! https://t.me/joinchat/iddAfyrudnI4ZjA8 try this one
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@Clairslemon It worked! I joined 🙂
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Hi Matt! Im Chiara! Im 21, first time i god ocd i was just 9. I used to have compulsions (i used to touch everything on the ground when i was walking). My parents took me to a psychologist and she helped me and i never had ocd again since last December/January (so, more than 10/11 years ocd free!). I started with intrusive thoughts but no compulsions. I have harm ocd, existential ocd and a lot of anxiety. Im back to therapy and now that im older i started taking Zoloft 25mg (after a talk to a psychiatrist). Now im at week 4 with Zoloft and im starting feeling better. A little bit less anxious and my thoughts are more manageable. I think that i’ve got a lot to do, but im on my way to get better ☺️
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Nice to meet you Chiara!☺️
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Hi! I'm Brenda, 21. I first noticed my compulsions around 12 years old, and I've noticed it gets worse when I have to deal with grief and loss (mainly in the last year and a half or so). I've never spoken to someone about it, because I'm terrified to make phone calls. But I'm working on that.
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Nice to meet you Brenda! ☺️
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Thank you everyone for sharing. I got OCD when I was 12. It started with me worrying about silly things. Such as if I touched the wall and the paint would have poison that would kill me. But recently I will think about things I have done in the past, not even bad things, and it’s been hard to get them out of my head.
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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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I recently got diagnosed with OCD back in May of this year. What started it was a month prior, I took an SSRI which triggered an extremely intense couple of days due to panic attacks I’ve never had before. I’ve never had panic attacks but pretty intense anxiety. That’s when I started experiencing DPDR and hyper awareness. I’m good some days, but other days it’s so so hard. Especially because I have no one around me that understands. The DPDR and awareness of every feeling, thought, and just overall awareness of my existence gets really overwhelming. I feel like I’m losing my mind. It’s really hard to sit with my thoughts especially when they’re on a constant loop of every little thing I’m thinking and doing and on top of that feeling like I’m in a dream. I desperately just want to go back to how I was 4 months ago, but I know that’s just not possible right now. If anyone has experienced this and is doing much better now or even currently experiencing this please let me know! I need someone to relate to lol
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Hello everyone! This is my first post since downloading the NOCD app and wanted to share a little about my life with OCD. I was first diagnosed when I was 17 but truly started noticing there was something going on with me as early as 10. To summarize: I have the repetitive ritualistic type of OCD. Basically, I have a fear of becoming other people. I believe that if I perform an action, like turning off the sink or closing a door, or even breathing in and out while thinking about somebody, especially someone that I dislike, that eventually I will become just like that person or experience something they've been through that is negative; like health issues, personality issues, or social status decline. Simple example: I know this one dude named Richard, I worked with him in retail, and he told me about how his brother died at a young age. Now, it’s nighttime, and with that new information known about Richard, I believe, that If I take my contact out while thinking of Richard, or an image of him appears in my head while I’m taking out my contact, I believe that MY brother is going to eventually die too. What’s the solution?: I worked with another kid in retail. His name is Mikey, he was decently put together, and his brother didn’t die. So that means: Now with my contact still on my finger, I put it to my eyeball, and keep tapping at my eyeball with my contact while trying to get an image of Mikey perfectly timed, so that I can cancel out the image of Richard and save my brothers life. This is a challenge because the image of Richard, or I should say, the fear that my brother could die from this thought, is strong, and often times I have to think of other people (from other life experiences) along with Mikey just to feel confident that I got the image cancelled enough to move forward. Every day, I complete many actions and with every action comes a thought or image of some person I’ve encountered in my life that I’m either afraid of becoming or obtaining the same negative life experiences, which therefore means I also have all the othet people in my mind, at the ready, that cancel them out too. Every day I cancel people out and repeat actions disguised to the public. Sometimes it’s noticeable, but knowing how to cover your ugly side while making sure you don’t mess up your future with the wrong thought is just what I call life. I’m a man with a thousand people in his head and its been an EXHAUSTING journey. But through therapy and acceptance of myself, I have found a way to love with it. Like anything else, there are horrible days and okay days, but this is apart of me forever and im lucky to share it all with you! Can anyone relate?? Feel free to comment or reach out! - Matt
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