Today at 25, 2 months after my diagnosis of ocd, adhd, anxiety, and depression. I've realized how much ocd controls me and how much worse it makes all of the other things. I've been having such a hard time with the intrusive thoughts its been destroying me. I thought it was the adhd or the anxiety and found an ocd podcast today that showed me this app. In the last few hours I've discovered how much my ocd has control over my life and I dont know where to start to get help. I cant afford to much for therapy but I definitely need help

As I was reading your post, you took the words right out of my mouth. I was diagnosed with ocd, adhd, anxiety and depression. And suffer with intrusive thoughts which for me act out in a contamination way. I don’t want to get too much into it and end up posting a novel. But I just wanted to let you know your not alone, It takes me days to do something someone would probably be able to do in one evening because I advoid doing what is going to cause me anxiety because just about everywhere in my own house there is something contaminated. I don’t know what your intrusive thoughts are but maybe you can prioritize around them and build up the courage to tackle what your putting off. Like for me I just got on here to see if I could across some encouragement or support because I am currently trying to fight my compulsion to go sanitize my phone because I THINK it MAY have touched something contaminated and it’s leading me down an intrusive thought spiral. And also on the other hand, I am out of Lysol wipes because I used two entire canisters in the last 2 days. And I only used them on my phone and purse…

Hello, I definitely agree that OCD really does affect more than I initially understood. I recently realized that too. It is soul crushing (for me at least) to feel so out of control with my own thoughts. My first step is signing up for the support group via zoom on this app. I haven’t attended yet but it would be so helpful to be able to listen to what other people are feeling and what works for them. I believe it is free. Either way, just know I definitely understand how frustrating it can get and I hope we both can find something to help. The first step for me is to meet other people who understand.