Did anyone else not have OCD before the pandemic? I had gone through phases of health anxiety, but never to an OCD extent. And then the pandemic hit and it was only a few months before I became completely consumed with severe OCD about various different things. Life’s weird... I’ve felt a little off, because I know that people are supposed to struggle with OCD their whole life, but that just wasn’t the case for me... it came on when I was 15, & I’m now 16!

mt12

Date posted: 4y

Yeah it is, especially by now, I almost feel like it’s “normal” now because I’ve been having it for so long. I don’t know what is real or my ocd anymore

Ravenian_scar

Date posted: 4y

Awe man I'm kinda feeling it rn. All the best of luck to u and ur ocd treatment

adaptocd

Date posted: 4y

While you can experience a moment of your OCD symptoms becoming moderate to severe, OCD is often a condition people are born with. Even if you experience late onset symptoms, you’ve likely always had OCD or the disposition for OCD. I used to think I didn’t develop it until I was teenager, but after reviewing behaviors and anxieties I experienced as a child, I realized it went back much further.

Faye June

Date posted: 4y

Yeah, I definitely think people have a natural propensity to become OCD about things, whether or not it’s ‘dormant’ waiting to show up, I’m not sure, but it’s biological - so who knows how it comes about! You could say that my health anxiety was a manifestation of OCD, which it could have but they’re considered seperate entities in the DSM. Thanks for the response!

Ravenian_scar

Date posted: 4y

Same here I got my ocd around 2021 Mid Jan so 😀

Dre83

Date posted: 4y

Got mine at age 36 and not because of ocd but because of a nightmare I had about stabbing my wife and haven’t been the same sense this nightnare

Dre83

Date posted: 4y

I mean not because of covid*

Faye June

Date posted: 4y

Yeah, that makes sense. I think some people just have a propensity to become ‘OCD’, and it doesn’t necessarily has to have been there your whole life. I’m sorry you’ve gone through that, no one deserves that❤️

Dre83

Date posted: 4y

@Lou Lou Thank you. Yes nobody deserves this affliction

marczay95

Date posted: 4y

I am completely the same Louise, I have had health anxiety twice before and was fine for most of the pandemic then janurary this year I’ve developed OCD and it’s horrible. I’d like to think it’s a bleep and it will pass but that’s not healthy. Now we have to work hard to get it under control.. yay us! Lol

mt12

Date posted: 4y

I mean I feel like everyone is different. I devoloped ocd when I was in 3rd grade and now I’m 21.. but some people develop after a couple years. It is just different for everyone

Ravenian_scar

Date posted: 4y

I developed my ocd around mid Jan this year. Dang it must be tough having ocd at that young age

222

Date posted: 4y

There is not timeline for OCD! It can hit at literally anytime

222

Date posted: 4y

my therapist said i had “borderline OCD behaviors” as I was growing up (due to experiences/things I was telling her ab my childhood) but until the pandemic, it didn’t fully latch on and become full force. Especially for women I believe it’s common for it to begin later in life. But it can happen at anytime, for anyone!

Anonymous

Date posted: 4y

I been dealing with ocd for more than 5 years now, but thanks to the pandemic it got worse.

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