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A year and a half ago I was having these awful thoughts. They maybe want to throw up. I thought I was a super bad person. A couple weeks later I was at a fast food restaurant crying, and I looked up OCD (I was previously diagnosed when I was 10) and realized that it’s what I had. It was relieving for a couple days but then i started to question it. But here I am. It’s still so hard. But it’s wonderful to know that I’m not alone.
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Funny enough I was watching a Good Mythical Morning episode where they talked about what ocd is and I thought “wow that sounds like something I go through” and I kept researching and now I’m here!
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Almost 8 months ago I started to have intrusive thoughts. They became excessive. I thought I was losing my mind, and becoming a horrible person. It got worse and worse. I confided in a trusted friend, My friend googled bad thoughts and found a link about it connected to ocd. Because most my compulsions are mental I wasn’t sure if it was ocd but now I look back and see so many signs to Pure OCD. The constant need for certainly about pretty much everything has been exhausting but I know I’m not alone.
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Yes ?️?️ I know how it feels to wake up and remember you’re stuck living in pain
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I was learning about ocd in class and also came across YouTube videos about ocd while I was watching ones about mental health. It clicked,then, that I was going through the same things they were depicting.
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Rory OMG same that is exactly when I found out that and we were doing a class assignment about mental health problem and it was a done deal I just kept it to my self though.
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Ahhhhh I remember when it first struck me that I had OCD. So mostly my OCD presents itself as Pure O (Pure Obsessional) although I do have complusive actions, anyways so i had never given OCD a real thought. It only struck me when I was talking to my psychologist about my symptoms and she said "Well this actually sounds a lot like OCD" and I didn't believe her at first until she explained that obsessions and complusions come any many different forms and manifestations.
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I was struggling with intrusive thoughts and anxiety around my relationship. I knew I was in love with my boyfriend but I had to keep telling myself I was so the anxiety would go down. I do remember looking stuff up around relationship anxiety I believe, and ROCD came up in an article, I read about it and matched quickly with the symptoms, and was able to self diagnose until getting professionally diagnosed. Months later it switched from ROCD to HOCD, and now both rule my life as well as smaller and more unusual themes.
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was watching a video a friend sent me and i related to everything. 1st thing i noticed was avoiding cracks in sidewalks hahaha
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i started becoming so scared of even numbers and i could not do anything even. i then started getting intrusive thoughts and anxiety and then i did research.
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In May I was doing really bad I desperately saw a counselor who mentioned it on our 2nd session. From then on I researched it, saw doctors, and a CB therapist.
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Great question, Ernestiq! I’ll never forget the moment I found out what I had! After suffering for several years from this disorder, I saw a commercial on TV about OCD. I knew right away that’s what I had, and it was relief that there was a name for the monster that was tormenting me. It also allowed me to begin recovering from OCD now that I knew what I had. I was sound asleep just before the commercial came on. I truly believe it was a miracle that caused me to wake up just as the commercial aired.
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I was so happy that it was OCD and not denial
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Hi I kept seeing this app on repeat on TikTok over and over and I thought I give it a shot. I have never been diagnosed with OCD but I know that I have it. I’m a young adult and I found out the first time I had OCD was watching lelelons truth video? I was 14 at the time She had to resist sitting back down in a chair after her having sat down she started having a mental break down when she was told to resist. That’s when I knew. It started with myself going up and down a staircase twice buckling unbuckling my seat belt everytime I’m in the car ect I have always been super anti social but trying my best I can socialize but my mind wants to make it sexual with family and friends ughhhh I hate it because that’s not me when I graduated thoughts of hurting my loved ones corrupted my mind I broke down outside of church one time asking if this was really me or not i question if I’m a good enough friend or person in this world to begin with thinking everyone is judging me so so close how can I make this situation better did I do something wrong I struggle with depression as well not to bad but it’s there I come from a loving family but broken as well i believe in god and my OCD makes me go often he’s not real that stuff isn’t real no one is there to save you the list goes on. Anyway I struggle a lot and I really hope that this will help me because I feel extremely hopeless. Lucky for me I do have the ability to seek therapy and I am excited. The only person I ever tell my thoughts to is God no other human has heard so I’m really really hoping this helps me out if your reading this thank you it means a lot because this is my first time ever admitting all this it’s a lot to take in I know and I hope you are ok and that you have a great night and know that we got this
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Hi, I’m new here!! I’m praying I don’t get judged for this. But, back in late May of 2022 ( literally right before I graduated high school), I added this one random girl from my school on Snapchat. She posted something about a graduation party , so I swiped up on her story basically saying how I can’t believe we’re almost graduated. She replied and we had a really short and simple conversation. The next day ( i believe) , we started talking a lot , and I just so happened to see her at the highschool when we were grabbing our graduation outfits and doing the rehearsal. When I saw her irl, I kinda got turned off ( I heard she was kinda crazy) , and on top of that , she was a little ugly irl. I remember seeing her Snapchat bio , and she was close friends with my female cousin ( a year younger than me) , who I happened to experiment sexually with when I was 10-11 years old. I remember going to work later that day and having sort of a lightbulb flick thought ( it wasn’t a good thought though) , what if my cousin told her about what happened when we were younger? So I started to kind of panic and immediately distanced myself from that girl. I also experimented sexually with one of my female friends when I was 10-11 , and from that day onwards, I’ve been pretty much living in paranoia and a little bit of guilt about someone finding out and my life being ruined . On top of that, It’s gotten worse to now sometimes I wonder if a girl I added off of quick add ( Snapchat) is underage even if they told me they were 18+ or had 18 and above in their bio, and I get so much guilt and anxiety about that. I even had a quick thought last February on what if I did something inappropriate with my younger cousin when I was 15-16 but I just can’t exactly remember when it happened , and it still eats me alive when I think about it, because I don’t know if it happened or not. I’m sorry for the long vent, I just wish I felt normal again. No matter how much I try to do things that old me used to do, life always feels “ off”. I always kept the top part about when I was younger a secret up until early (ish ) 2024, then I vented to one of my best friends and he told me that that’s a normal thing to do at a young age. Since then, I have told multiple friends and they all say they did similar stuff, but my brain just can’t accept that. Please help me, I quite literally overthink everything nowadays. 2021 was the last full year that I felt normal ( coincidentally, the best year of my life so far) . It’s not just about sexual related things either, sometimes I’ll wonder if I messed up something at work or hit a car while driving/hit someone and drove off. I just wanna live my life how I was supposed to live it after highschool ( carefree and happy) before whatever it is ( I think it’s ocd) hit me unexpectedly. Thanks to anyone who read this , I just needed to pour it out regardless of how negative I felt typing this, I hope someone can relate , because I feel so alone in my head at times.
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