- Username
- Mike_d
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I’m 16, dealing with existential OCD. It’s the ultimate theme because there are literally no answers to our questions so we have no choice but to face uncertainty lol
Im sorry you’re going through tjat :/ if you need a friend i got you!
27, nine months pregnant, am also an OCD therapist, real events/pure O
You’re an OCD therapist?!
25! I have POCD, Real event, SO-OCD, and ROCD basically everything in my life i have ocd about
Wow someone my age and a shared theme of SO-ocd. Let’s be friends 😂
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Let’s!
@Justmesadly Insta??
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Okay I deleted because I don’t want people to see, did you see it?
@Justmesadly Here make it easier @ghosty_m440
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Followed you!
25 ROCD AND SOOCD
how do you deal with ROCD
You’re not alone! Here to talk always!
I'm seventeen, eighteen soon. I have contamination, moral, a dash of health/existential, and I imagine traces of a few other themes. My OCD seems to err on the milder side of things, though, and it's not as bad now as it once was, which is a relief.
I'm 30. I primarily deal with Real Event, False Memory, and ROCD. I didn't really notice symptoms until last year. It's been tough.
Amazing how it slips through the cracks!
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. It totally did and I'm still struggling to accept my diagnosis. It started with some ROCD and fears of cheating and then it progresses to fearing that I cheated on my partner in the past. I was a mess when he met me and now I'm questioning if I was good to him our entire relationship. I can't recall anything but here I am worried that I haven't been.
25. ROCD big time. But my themes switch up sometimes depending on what I’m stressed about.
Completely valid and respectable!
30- SO-OCD
You find yours progressively come on? Or just out of nowhere
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Totally out of no where the first time. It went away for two years and now I’m stuck again
@absmcgee Here if you need me!
26! Dealing with SOOCD 🤙So far the only theme in my life 😅
What in the world… everyone be my age??? It’s been my main theme for years!
I’m 31 and I’m honestly not sure how many I have but it usually revolves around Self harm OCD, and maybe existential? I worry why I am here and I worry I won’t be able to accomplish everything I want. Also is fomo ocd a thing 🤣? Cause like change triggers me big time and I see everyone growing and doing different things and I’m here just trying to not answer ocd thoughts and feelings
Like seeing people do their life compared to yours? Just so i understand
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Yes it’s hard to pinpoint or explain. I just get these thoughts and feelings like I should be I.e. living on my own and okay with and wanting it (I live with family). But then I get thoughts and feelings that that’s scary and it gives me anxiety and makes me want to crawl into a bubble. I should be okay with romantic relationships and possibly working towards marriage and kids cause I see others doing itand my own friends and family doing it ( I also thought I would have these things by now and I don’t) and I feel like I struggle with it. I fear being alone yet I’ve avoided dating cause of different fears of not being able to trust myself pop up. But yea I was diagnosed last year and my main distressing theme was suicidal ocd and I did treatment for it and recently had my touch up treatment, and it’s gone down and yet it feels like I’m not doing life right or at the right time and things are gonna pass me by and cue anxiety and mental looping cause I’m running out of time and life is short. Oh this person is changing and growing in my life? What if everyone does and I can’t and stay the same and miserable? Things like that sorry if it doesn’t make sense but it just feels like when one of my themes goes down it’s like my ocd tries to latch onto other things as well and it’s frankly annoying as hell.
@Ari925 If it makes you feel better there is no such thing as doing life “right” or “wrong”.. you have a friend in me if you need
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Thank you 😊
@Ari925 Of course, if you ever need to talk I’m here!
im a monor with ROCD and a few others but it is the big one right now and its just destroying me.
Take your time and make sure you’re doing ERP homework!
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. im scared it will make things worse
55, Trichotillomania
Im assuming you’ve received treatment?
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Yes. But not through NOCD though, because it isn’t available in my country (yet). BetterHelp offers specialists internationaly and before covid I participated in a irl group therapy specifically for Tric.
Turned 60 last month.....many OCD's spiritual,real,and a few other OCD's. I'm old and have had depression and anxiety off and on for the past 30 years. And thinking about it I remember having some depression growing up.
If you need a friend I’m here!
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Thank you. Sure you want an old lady for a friend 😉
@God is in Control Anyone and everyone can be my friend, i Dont discriminate!
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Thumbs up 👍
29, pure O mostly, a lot of health triggers. My anxiety often turns to physical pain and then my ocd takes the ball and runs with scenarios like WHAT IF ITS A BLOOD CLOT!?!? COULD THIS BE A RARE HEART ATTACK FOR SOMEONE UNDER 30!?!?!? Oodles of fun 😫😵
I completely understand that one!
26 and false memory + harm ocd
Here for you!
15, with SO-OCD, Perfectionism OCD, and something my therapist calls “Moral Responsibility OCD!”
Glad to see a younger one on here receive help! You got a friend here if you need
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. Thanks :)
I have moral scrupulosity ocd which sounds similar 🤔 but wanted to give a shout out to a fellow morality sufferer!
@OCDumb >:( Always!
I'm 18 I have ruminative ocd is soo annoying and stressful because I deal with this ALLLL DAY LONG that I am not even able to focus on school work like I have WORRY about WORRYING RUMINATING ABOUT RUMINATING its soo compulsive Its like I have to do it and then I do it so much that I think I dont even really have ocd I feel like I am going insane and the thing that makes me anxious the most is that I try soo hard to remember when I started ruminating for some reason I feel like if I know the exact time I started ruminating then I'll stop completed which ik that's not the case but I still do it anyway
I just got this app today btw I dont think I have ocd tbh I just keep doubting it and it's making me very anxious
Ik I have it but idk
ill call it hoarding ocd like I think all day long and I think that's why I ended up getting sick very badly I had psychosis and the people thought it was because I took a drug or something but seriously no I didnt then I had it again at 17 the first time I was very ill throwing up the second time I was I'll and throwing up too do u guys think it may have been due to anxious thinking and also I was going through alot of stuff
25 with so-ocd, pocd, real event ocd, and moral scrupulosity ocd (my goodness I’m a mess haha). I struggle very much with sexually intrusive thoughts and my biggest compulsion is probably rumination. I also have a panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and depression so I would like to add to my previous statement…I’m a HOT mess 😂
Oh and pure o as well… there’s so many to keep track of!
Feel free to reach out to me! Always here for you!
@NOCD Advocate - Michael F. I never realized how many of us were around the same age! Thank you! You are so kind to be reaching out to people like this and offering support!
12, I have like all themes but real event ocd seems to hit me the hardest
Gonna make you a stronger person!
16. Dealing with TOCD and false memory. Came out of nowhere on September 9th
Just curious... how old are you guys? I’ve seen lots of people talking about school on here. I’m 18 and this community has really helped me feel less alone in being a teen with ocd!
What is the worst theme you guys deal with? And what intrusive thoughts come with it? This is totally a judgment free zone
... but I would like to find people on here around my age (I'm 38), who would be interested in proper chats and conversations outside of here (the app is great, but as there is no option to properly chat, but only blog, it's not completely satisfying my need for conversation with other OCD sufferers). I know younger people suffer from OCD, too, but certain things and views are just different, when someone is 20 years younger than me (no offence). Of course, we'd need to find out, if we get along and, if not, it should be fine to stop engaging without any hard feelings.
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