A part of my life that OCD ruined for me is my social skills. The intrusive thoughts affected the way i talked, acted and interacted with others i can’t even look at people for more than 2 seconds i get very anxious if i had to keep eye contact more than that im afraid they’ll know what i think about them or notice the images that pop up. I know it’s impossible for that to happen but i just can’t act normal or have a simple conversation anymore.

Need some advice please. I'm trying to fix my social anxiety, self esteem and confidence but ocd infests itself and makes me I had all these issues because I my ocd was true all along. For example, Im extremely uptight/awkward around people and have a fear of being judged, laughed at or seen through, fear of not being liked etc. One cause of this I read is it's because i suppressed my real self/feelings and pretended to put on a fake mask to be liked by others/fit in and now that im older that mask is breaking and causing me disconnect from my real self. My hocd inserts itself and makes me feel because I was gay all along without knowing it is why it happened. It genuinely feels like that's the case but then I feel dreaded and depressed because it feels so real I'm ready to accept that scenario. But back then I didnt think I could have been gay or anything. Im not sure how to handle this difficulty. Please any advice?

21, have had OCD for as long as I remember and I have had no social life for as long as I remember too. I spent more time at home with compulsions, and any social mistake I made would lead to weeks of intrusive thoughts, so I simply stopped talking to people. I can barely speak, I'm not sure how to say what I want to say and I constantly stumble over my words and am just incapable of being socially normal. Like I can barely talk, there's people who learned English as a foreign language who are far more capable of talking than I'll be in the language. So I simply become more reclusive and my OCD becomes worse, which leads to me being more reclusive and so on. Even if I ever get cured I'm not sure I'll ever be socially normal, I think I'm too late for that. Is that true? Or can I change. I'm just giving up at this point I think, I'm just not sure I can. I sound just so odd.

Any image that pops up into my head i automatically assume it’s posted online so i have to check every app to make sure. Or a simple action or word and my brain makes up an imagine like what if you actually did this or said this. I just sniffed or huffed to make a noticed that I was annoyed by my dog and now my brain created this image and now I think I said something.