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I get it, school is really rough for me too. I'm in my freshmen year of highschool, and it controls me sometimes. Whenever I notice myself obsessing about thing, I just close my eyes and breathe deeply, and tell myself I'm ok. If you can, you can also calm down by going to the bathroom and being alone, I know it's easier for my when nobody is watching me freak out about things. Also, if you can, listen to music. It really helps me just forget about what I'm stressing about. I usually listen to music during lunch, and it gives me a mid-day boost where I can just calm and think.
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^^ <3 what Moose said
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Yes! Happy Birthday!! Remember that OCD likes to attack what you value most, so it VERY OFTEN makes an appearance at special events. Don’t fight it off, just pull up a chair and tell it, “Hello OCD my old friend, I see you’ve come to visit me again, but I have a life to live, so you can sit right there but you don’t get the driver’s seat.” Let the OCD thoughts co-exist in your mind with your regular thoughts because the harder you resist them, the stronger they’ll cling. But if they see that they have no power to bother you, they’ll get bored and go away.
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OCD is a bully. It can follow you around and yell things at you, but you just keep living your life, doing the next thing.
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Wow thanks for all the support guys you really helped me out I appreciate it I hope you can help make others feel better like you did with me
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Thank you! And you are going to be able to help others out immensely with all the wisdom you are gaining through these struggles! Keep living your beautiful life and know that a beautiful tapestry is being woven, thread by thread, through every joy and heartache. Here’s to a new year of living and growing! You are a warrior!!!
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p.s. Start reading Jon Hershfield’s work at OCDLA when you can. He’s funny and has LIVED the struggles and now is a therapist for others!
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Ok thx
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I'm 15 turning 16 soon and I'm 100 percent convinced I have ocd.. I have been having major symptoms since I was 13, the constant what ifs, rumination, compulsions, guilt, anxiety from intrusive thoughts. I tried to open up about it to my parents when i was 13 but they dismissed it cause they don't believe in mental health.. I really want to get better. My parents won't listen to me and I don't wanna tell a teacher at school cause that would make things worse as they would just tell my parents and obviously since I'm 15 I can't afford therapy.. I don't know what to do :(
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Having ocd is so incredibly exhausting and depressing- my mom and dad argued with me for over an hour talking about how im a pain to be around, go in too many loops, and ruin everything and everyones mood… this conversation started with me saying im stressed out because of school and that i dont want to go because im exhausted- and idk if this is like ocd directly but it takes me like 2 hours to get ready in the morning because i need to look PERFECT and the same everyday literally 😭 and that process feels so exhausting every morning at 6am but i will NOT go to school without going through with it- i will literally be crying and shaking and wanting to go home the minute i get to school if even a single strand of my hair is not perfectly straightened or any blemishes or flaws are showing- and i cant even walk to school or anything bc im scared the humidity will mess with my hair and everything- and it just really affects my life? And yeah its freaking exhausting. And i have two more years of highschool and I dont know if im going to make it 😭i get super stressed over grades too because i need them to be extraordinary otherwise its a fail. Nothing below 95%. And thats also tiring! 😁 and my mom told me today “medication IS NOTTTT AND OPTION!!!” Like oh okay so im just cooked 😭 and therapy isnt really helping me at all- i feel like what im being told is so basic and generic and it doesn’t help me when im in a huge ocd episode- which is often… and what i hate most is like my mom says “don’t come to me with your problems after 6pm…” im sorry i cant schedule my feelings 😭 im so tired
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Okay so my parents don't really handle my ocd that well. For starters my contamination is getting worse (I'm 14) and keep exisivly washing my hands, or using toilet roll which is unfortunately really common. Now they are getting angry at me for using too much toilet roll... What do I do? There saying I'm ruining there lifes because of my ocd. I'm making there lifes miserable. And they don't COMMUNICATE or sit down with me and look me in the eyes and try sort it out WITH ME. they just go "STOP USING SO, MUCH TOILET ROLL" "you've broke another headset" "WE ARE ALLOWED TO BE PISSED AT YOU" and I'm getting self harm urges because there making me out to be such a bad person. Which obviously doesn't mix well with ocd.
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