- Username
- Rory
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I think it’s important to differentiate between having OCD tendencies and having the disorder. It is only considered a disorder when it starts to have a big impact on your life and causes you a lot of distress. Looking back I may have had some OCD tendencies before my OCD became full-blown, but I wouldn’t say I struggled with it my whole life because those were just tendencies and they did not greatly impact my life at that time.
Yeah ?️ I’m feeling you there.Wished family noticed earlier
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I think i can definitely see symmetry ocd and intrusive thoughts being around ever since i was little yeah
I think I’ve have ocd “tendencies” all my life as well but when I was really young it didn’t really cause me so much stress and anxiety. It wasn’t until I was around 10-11 it really hit hard. My hands were constantly bleeding, I refused too get out of the shower cause I didn’t feel clean enough and couldn’t go to school at all because it caused me so much anxiety. So it have definitely always been a part of my life
First post, new here. I’ve always thought that I have OCD since I was in 7th grade. I am 22 now and actively trying to take steps to treat it myself because I don’t have money for therapy and my parents don’t believe I have it. I think I suffer from Magical Thinking. A (stupid but true) example would be how I collect phone cases. I buy really cute ones and then I put one on and the whole day no one texts me so I take it off because I think it’s the case doing it and it gives me anxiety so I switch back to this main one that when I use it I get texts and it makes my anxiety go away. I do this with a lot of my things so for years I just haven’t been able to wear or use certain things or even take a different way home for fear that abc or d might or might not happen. It’s very debilitating to feel like I can’t change anything about myself or my life because it gives me anxiety thinking that if I change this or that then I might die, or I might not have a good night, or so and so won’t text me, etc. Sorry if this doesn’t make sense, I’ve never told anyone about it just something that consistently eats away ate my brain and has been forever. Any advice or comments would be appreciated.
So I have OCD about OCD itself. Like I will be talking about harm OCD or POCD that I struggle/struggled with as a kid and it come up sometimes now but it was rlly bad as a kid (I’m 16 now) and then I’ll worry “what if you don’t have harm ocd or pocd, and when you have pocd you can’t get the images and thoughts out of your head but because it doesn’t make you feel as physically sick as sexuality OCD what if I’m making my POCD and harm OCD up for attention?! Can anyone relate...
anyone else had ocd from a very young age? I’m talking like, I remember obsessions from when I was 6. and my family remembers my symptoms from even earlier. I didn’t get help until I was 15 because my family isn’t big on mental health. anyway, it frustrates me that I genuinely don’t know what it’s like to live without ocd. Sometimes I hear/see people talk about how they just wish things could back to how they were ‘before,’ or that imagining what their life was like before onset helps motivate them in recovery. But I don’t have anything like that. in fact, it’s almost scary to think about recovering completely because I don’t know anything else? it depresses me
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