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Also for me, I used to be very scared of flying and I had a ton of compulsions. Counting to ten. Touching the plane before entering, playing music at a certain time and playing games at a certain time, if I ever violated these, my thoughts told me we would crash.
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I see a lot of HOCD, POCD, and sexual intrusive thoughts. Ive never dealt with any of those. I rarely see contamination OCD. Yet supposedly its one of the more common OCD themes ?
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Relationship intrusions. Getting worried with friends so you blow up their phone by calling or texting. Asking questions over and over again about a person and getting different answers from the actual person. Wanting the truth and feeling if I don’t have the truth all get emotional and that’s the worst circumstance to me
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I have several. Mainly I worry about people not liking me and that makes me not like myself. The other one is I’m always afraid of throwing up and I even get scared when people cough in a certain way.
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“ur tying a plastic bag, u must be doing it to flirt”
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Ocd: “oH ur walking behind them? ur flirting for sureee
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I had intrusions about my teachers, priest, and family
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It’s awful
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I’ve had sexually intrusive thoughts about teachers when I was younger. I didn’t even realize that could’ve been OCD untill you said something @meloday_fair
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I imagine people yelling at me all the time. It makes it hard to talk to people.
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So you know how the more widely known ones have to do with keeping clean? My OCD did the opposite for me. When I was about 12, I only showered once a week because every time I got in the bathroom to shower I'd start having sexual intrusive thoughts about randomly stripping down in the middle of class and I would start thinking "well what if that's really what's happening and I only think I'm in the shower because I'm hallucinating or something?" Also for some reason my sexual intrusive thoughts most commonly include teachers. Its disgusting and I've never met anyone else who has that problem!
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Used to avoid pools and sharp objects bc I was afraid I would drown myself or stab myself or someone else. Red is a “bad” color. Never been able to have bangs that swipe to one side or part my hair to one side, because it is asymmetrical and feels like the side with slightly more hair weighs like 10 more pounds? That whole half of my body throbs and aches. Anything to do with food, I am very leery of and will wash food/utensils over and over until they feel clean. I get panicked when my phone is at 66%. Even numbers and multiples of 5 are “right” and odd numbers are “bad.” And the list goes on...
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I haven't been able to read about experiences similar to mine when it comes to my perfectionism OCD so I was wondering if anyone had any "uncommon" experiences.
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Hi I’m new to the community and I have such weird ocd tendencies I was curious to see if anyone else has so I’m just going to list them in no specific order: 1. My brain goes “I hope” every time I think of something bad happening. Like “I hope that pedestrian gets hit by a car” or “I hope a demon snatches me under the bed right now.” 2. I have dermatillomania mostly on my arms, chest, face, and shoulders. If I have a bunch of open wounds on my body, I make myself feel “cleaner” by doing an everything shave in the shower. Conversely, if I’m having a period of mostly healed skin, I like to leave my body hair growing out for a couple days as a way to gloat to myself how “clean” I am even without shaving. 3. After my whole life living with these symptoms, most of them I’m able to brush off. But this next one still shakes me and disturbs me to my core every time it happens and it’s picturing sex acts with people I would NEVER want to do sex acts with. My earliest memory of this is when I was a little kid, as young as 5 years old, I had an image in mind of what I thought God looked like. Every time I would imagine God, I would automatically imagine him naked and I would shove my head under the pillow and shut my eyes tightly and try to make the image go away because I thought I was being blasphemous by imagining such a thing. 4. This one is relatively new, the past year or two, but cutting my own bangs. The only reason I consider it an ocd tendency and not just self sufficiency is because I SUCK at it and botch it every time!!! But I keep trying to find the perfect parting that contours to all the existing cowlicks and kinks in my hair and try to carve out my “natural bangs.” I convince myself a hairdresser is just not familiar enough with my hair growth patterns to give me what I want. This one is particularly embarrassing because it’s like I’m wearing my mental illness on my face. I have been wearing a headband for the past year to try and hide it but it doesn’t stop me from cutting it again because I am so insistent to get it right. I always regret it after. 5. I don’t know if this one is ocd but I suspect it might be and it’s that I rarely ever am not drinking water. If I finish a glass I’m filling up another one. Sometimes it will be a different beverage like coffee or matcha but I almost always am sipping compulsively on something. I use the bathroom about once every hour and 3-4 each night. That’s all I can think of for now but I wanted to share some atypical traits to see if anyone relates! This isn’t by any means all of my ocd tendencies unfortunately:/ just the ones I’ve never heard anyone else share before!
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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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