Hey y’all! Second post on this community and I can’t sleep, as usual. When you look back, do any of you guys see signs of ocd in your younger self that you wish you caught up on? For me, I hoarded a lot as early as 3 and made my family make my lunch and dinner I’m very specific ways or else they would have to start over. I’m a junior in high school now and a lot of my obsessions/compulsions are different, but looking back I definitely struggled with it my whole life.

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