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I have been seeing a lot of commercials with Howie Mandel talking about OCD. Very informative about what OCD really is and isn’t. Great to see this information out there. Thanks Howie!!

He got into a relationship 2 weeks after telling me he didn’t want one. After a year of me and him being together, a totally of 2 weeks it took him to find another girl. Am I that replaceable? Am I that unworthy? Why am I this jusr so fucked yo that I’m honestly doubting my place on this earth. If someone I thought I loved could leave me that easy then what does that mean about me? I’m crying and thinking and hating myself and I’m so unsure what I’m to do now

I am suffering which i hope hocd & tocd , i want to ask lesbians/bisexuals females , when you see a woman touches/ kisses a man in a video or photo , do you feel like you wanted to be touched instead of the man ? Do you feel like the touch on you ?

hi everyone found this app out of desperation, because i realized i never really had control of my ocd. ironically most of my ocd triggers revolve around being out of control. i have recently noticed that the stress i’m under is taking a physical toll on my body. to the point where last night i spent 5 hours in the emergency room because i was convinced i was having a heart attack and had a blood clot that was killing me. it was heart burn. i had to get an iv which is another phobia i have, needles. which i’ve been inadvertently doing my own exposure therapy due to my extreme health anxiety and needing to have tests done. every headache is an aneurism, every cough is a blood clot, every pain is cancer, tender breasts during my period is cancer, etc etc. i just turned 30. the age everyone tells you you’re too young but you know that’s not really true. so says my ocd. because if they say i’m too young i’m the exception. and besides! KIDS get cancer and die every day, why not me. so after they tell me it’s not a heart attack, it’s not a blood clot-after an xray, blood test, ekg, the next day the heart burn i’ve been experiencing for three days straight starts to lessen. go figure. talk about irony. the thing i’m afraid of is causing the thing i’m afraid of. and what’s worse is it genuinely seems logical. when you have people on the internet telling you, that’s how my sister died, and women’s heart attack symptoms look different! and if i stopped now (if i stopped caring) in my eyes, the odds are that i’ve gone this long without anything being wrong, of course when i stop compulsively checking, researching, going to the dr, looking for reassurance, that’s when it would happen. boom dead. and i can’t sleep, but lack of sleep can make you sick, damages your brain. and i can’t eat, but lack of calories you cant think, your body can’t function. and when i can eat, it’s too much, i have stomach pain, my intestines don’t work, it’s definitely colon cancer! speaking of which that DOES run in my family. and so like i do i wanted a colonoscopy and everyone told me i was too young. but tmi (which i believe we are way past that at this point) i have horrible ibs (cue irony again, stress makes it worse!!) and im severely constipated, which means i get fissures and have hemeroids. aka BLEEDING out of my body. so they said sure, but you’re too young to find anything. well they did, a polyp and they said i’m extremely lucky because it’s so rare to find anything in someone so young. (again young? didn’t people only live till 40 up until a few centuries ago?) anyway so that validated my fears to the point where i’m convinced im physic. my ocd loves it. i don’t believe in god, anymore. when i did it was fuel to my ocd fire. as a little 7 year old i didnt know what ocd was, but i’ve been responsible for the health, death, etc of my friends and family ever since. now that its not praying its through other means like, holding my breath waking up stairs, having to walk evenly on each foot, i honestly dont even have that many examples because its unconscious at this point. i wont even realize im doing it, ill look down and im pressing the tips of my fingers so they all feel even. whatever that means. i try not doing it and i get nauseous. after all it’s not hurting anyone. rather the opposite, im saving lives! please sense my sarcasm here. anyway the list goes on and on. and here i am, 30. “too young” to have any problems. but when i think back to when i was first diagnosed, i think 9 years old. i thought 30 WAS OLD! and you know what, it’s starting to feel too old for this shit. it’s exhausting, aggravating, isolating, anything but good. and i genuinely apologize if any of this is triggering. i just need to get this off my chest. im grateful i have a loving family and partner, but i put so much of this on them. and they don’t know what it’s like and im glad. i downloaded this app and read through the first couple posts and started to cry. of course its sad but more than anything people actually feel the same way as me. i’m not the only one im not alone. that matters to me.

I’m honestly appalled at the kind of people allowed on this app, this app is meant to be a safe space for people with ocd and for help with getting through things ocd related but people just use this as a platform for bullying and hatred comments and I’m sick of it. NOCD should be filtering out horrible comments from people not interested in being a nice person because what I’ve experienced after trying to HELP someone the last day has been disgusting and hurtful, I also was the only one targeted either. I’m not interested in drama or bullying in the slightest and I protect my peace always, this app is meant for people just looking for some help, not some bullies who have nothing better to do with their time. God bless and stay safe

I’m having difficulty sleeping again. My left arm is hurting and I’m experiencing a slight headache. I can rationalize it out but it’s still keeping me up because I’m scared I will die in my sleep. (My arm hurts because of crocheting for hours on end and my headache is from sinuses) I shouldn’t be scared because I know I’ll go to Heaven. But it’s still keeping me up. I think about death then my son and husband and how they would be devastated. And keeps going… Any tips to help me sleep

For example, I have the intrusive thoughts "What if you went and put olive oil on your TV/phone?" And my compulsion is to check to see if I've done that. I don't understand why I'd need to actually put olive oil on my TV/phone. That could damage it or make the screen blurry. I'd rather just ignore the intrusive thoughts and not check. But then we're supposed to make things imperfect on purpose for exposure?? I'm so very confused. Why can't we just let an intrusive thought be a thought and not do the compulsion?

I am not totally sure and it might be a vitamin called Biotin that is helping my OCD, but Pantothenic Acid has 50 times more concentration of this Vitamin in the brain than in the rest of the body, why is that? It helps even at the molecular level of the body and honestly I don’t fully understand it myself but there has to be a reason that Pantothenic Acid is concentrated 50 times higher in the brain. It helps in Methylation and doctors just starting to understand Methylation and its role in Brain Chemistry….anyway, just thought I would pass this along.

Hello everyone, so I just finished the movie "turtles all the way down" which is based on the book by John Green. The movie is about a 16 year old girl with OCD who tries to solve a mystery involving her love interests fathers disappearance. The movie definitely covers OCD better than what is the stereotype of just someone who is organized but in other ways it really misses the mark. First off it only covers one form of OCD in detail, contamination OCD. The main character Aza is constantly afraid of contracting a virus called C diff that she has to do compulsions like change a bandaid or eat hand sanitizer. While that might be a representation of Contamination OCD, it is not the only form of OCD out there. I felt like the movie should of covered other forms of OCD such as relationship OCD, Harm OCD and especially Pure O, but none of that was covered at all. If someone with OCD was using this movie to help a loved one understand them, it would only make them think OCD is just related to germs. Another part of the movie that really jerked me the wrong way was the pushing of medication as a cure for OCD. I was personally on many medications for OCD as a kid and only made my condition worse. The therapist in the movie literally guilt trips Aza into taking her medication to make her OCD go away. Her therapist does mention exposure response therapy but does not explain to the audience what it is. So if someone wanted to learn about ERP they would have to seek it out after the movie. Overall I'd say the movie still misses the mark in a fully accurate portrayal of OCD.

It genuinely feels like this disorder is taking away my whole life. I cant go outside and hangout with the people I love or even be around strangers because my thoughts will include them and I’ll just get really uncomfortable and anxious. It has made me distance myself from so many ppl in my life and made me have thoughts and feelings that I don’t want and that I hate making me feel like a monster and a disgusting person. Sometimes I’m genuinely so close to taking my life. It feels like there’s no hope for me at all and that I’ll be like this forever fighting my own brain till I’m old and on my death bed. I’m supposed to be enjoying my summer but I just can’t. I cant go outside, I can’t go on social media, hell I can’t do anything because there will be a child around that will trigger me into a spiral. I can’t stay all summer locked up in my room and constantly making excuses to not go out. It’s been feeling so real too like I’m really the type of person that I don’t want to be and it’s so scary.

Hii, I’ve been on this app for a feew months, and im not diagnosed. I started going to a center of psychological attention at my school used for training their future therapists (I’m studying psychology too) but I haven’t told my family that I need help because I’m a bit scary of what they’re gonna thing about me (the support psychologists just I’m scared of the content of my obsessions or whatever they’re, again I repeat I’m undiagnosed). The problem is that, I thought that talking to my psychologist about my doubts about maybe having ocd would make her interested and maybe like to indague more about it, but she always tells me that my intrusive thoughts are illogical and that I shouldn’t worry about them too much, and that my, what I think are, false memories aren’t real and I shouldn’t believe them because if something happened I would remember, but, I haven’t told her about the most horrible thoughts and images and the content of my obsessions because I’m really scared that she’ll think I’m crazy. She told me to seek a psychiatrist and while it maybe good, to go I need my mum taking me, and I don’t wanna go to the psychiatrist either, I’ll rather start with a therapist specialized in ocd for them to evaluate me and answer my questions. My psychologist is nice, but Im now regretting seeing her first because now I don’t wanna tell her that I wanna see a licensed therapist specifically specialized in ocd and leave her. She is nice but I don’t think we’re getting anywhere and I just struggle to ask my mum for help (even though knowing that she’ll get it for me) So, does anyone have like tips for telling your parents that you think you may have ocd and for telling your therapist that you wanna leave her because you feel you are not going anywhere and you wanna seek for a possible diagnoses? 😿

I usually don’t write this much in the detail, but now I’m really scared, please help. So I had this “basic” intrusive thought if you don’t do that that will happen and of course I couldn’t resist and did it. But the problem is the thing I did is to put in mouth just a little (i mean really just a little) body lotion. In the past my I was really scared of getting anything like that in my mouth. Really scared. When I did put (really just a little lotion) in my mouth I immediately spit it out. But then my other side of ocd started acting up and I started to panick. Now i’m VERY scared i’ll get posioned and die. I researched a lot on google, and now I feel like I’m having some of the symthoms. I should go to sleep now, but I can’t forget this. Is there anything to worry about? (thank you for every answer, this is kind of embarrasing)

Am I the only one who feels different for having my ocd manifest in completely different ways than most of the people I know that struggle with ocd? My type of ocd relates to me not eating due to thinking there are worms in my food, which lasts for weeks, it’s this constant obsession of the grossness of worms and my fear of them. Everytime I tell someone this they think it is some sort of schizophrenia, but I am diagnosed with ocd because I dont see worms, I just can’t get the idea of them being in my food out of my head. So when I explain it to people, they constantly bash me for it, tease me about worms, call me weird, and one time my ex boyfriend started telling his friends to start showing me photos of worms to anger me. I just feel so different and although exposure therapy has been suggested for me, I just can’t seem to think of the concept of being comfortable with worms without crying.

So I’m a new mom and postpartum I’ve been dealing with PCOS which sucks so bad because I know I would never hurt or want to hurt my child. I’ve never dealt with these types of thoughts before having a baby so I know it has something to do with Postpartum OCD which is what my therapist diagnosed me with. But I was explaining to my therapist about gronal responses and she basically acted like what I was explaining was a bit taboo. I have talked to my best friend about this and she explained that gronal responses can happen at reasonable and unreasonable times and it’s like beating yourself up for breathing bc it’s uncontrollable. I guess I just want to make sure I’m not a creep for having gronal responses bc my therapist confused me and made me feel even worse for having these.

Firstly, congrats to all of you! It’s very inspiring to see so many of these badges and I hope to join you one day. I have 2 questions: 1. How long did it take for therapy to noticeably improve your symptoms? I know everyone is different, I’m just trying to get an estimate. 2. Do any of you have “Pure O?” I’m just terrified that my pure o will be too hard to treat.

Hey guys, I’ve been dealing with a lot of DPDR with my anxiety and ocd being pretty constant. I have a fear I’m going into psychosis. Idk if you can be aware of your own psychosis and I know we’re not supposed to ask for reassurance but I truly feel crazy and the dpdr and existential ocd is not helping. I feel like I can’t even do the exposures because my anxiety is so high. Anyone else been through this?

One of my biggest struggles with OCD is the necessity to pray. Not because I feel drawn to the Holy Spirit to pray not because I feel close to God to pray, but to make sure I don’t go to hell or to not have to deal with the thoughts throughout the day that I have to pray in order to exist I before I can listen to music. I have to pray before I can eat. I have to pray before I can sleep. I have to pray before I can even really exist on this earth even as soon as I wake up during the day, I have to pray, a constant being forced to pray instead of being devoted to prayer.

I have been with my boyfriend since I was 16, I am now 23. I was head over heels for him for a couple of years then I went to undergrad and started having thoughts/fears I cheated on him with another man. I would then convince myself I did. Then my ocd got really bad and I convinced myself I was gay, since that time I have been fighting with my thoughts 24/7 trying to decide if I am or if I am not. I wasn't able to eat, sleep, etc. The anxiety has gotten less but it still affects me and my relationship. Now I feel like I am numb to my boyfriend. I never want to have sex, I get scared.. While we have sex I constantly question how I am feeling. Is this normal? I know OCD attaches to things that are important to you, so I like to think its just because I love him so much that all my themes revolve around potentially losing him and it came in a time when I was 5 hours away from him consistently at school. IDk what I'm trying to get from this, just to rant or see that I'm not alone. I am now 6 hours away from him in graduate school so I have other stressors impacting me but I am obsessed with finding out if I truly love him or if I am gay even though before all of this started I never had these thoughts but now I am constantly questioning to the point I've almost convinced myself its true. My anxiety is the worst if I see homosexual women but I also fear I am attracted to women bc I notice them more now I feel like and feel like I have lost my attraction to men. Is this normal? I've been dealing with it for 2.5 years. I want nothing more than to be happy and content with my boyfriend but I cant even tell my true feelings anymore.

My fiancé and I of 7 years just broke up because I am an idiot. I’m in a lot of pain. I can’t let her go. I’m just such an idiot. We’ve been long distance for awhile and she was getting ready to move in with me but not anymore bc It’s truthfully all of my fault and I did this to myself. I let my insecurities get the best of me by accusing her of cheating and I know that’s wrong and there’s no excuse for it. I know she would never do that but I just get so extremely scared and paranoid that somethings going on without my knowledge but if you met her you would know that she would never do anything like that. She truly is an angel. I’m just such an idiot. And I yell and cuss at her when I get frustrated and angry. I’m so ashamed. How could I have become such a crappy partner. I feel terrible about it and it’s all my fault. I don’t know how to communicate my emotions and I get so frustrated because I feel like I’m not being heard even when she’s listening to me. I just needed someone to talk to. That’s my reasoning for posting this. I made my bed so now I have to lay in it. I know she loves me a lot. I told her I would get therapy which I really want to but I just can’t afford it. I’m going to save up though. She said she would wait for me until I get better and work things out. I just love her so much. I can’t believe I ruined everything between us. But maybe it’s for the better. I’m not a good partner and I’ve only had a flood of intrusive thoughts that I’m going to hurt her when she moves in which I would never do but it just feels so real, it scares the shit out of me.

I’m super convinced i am a bad person because I actively avoid people who are “better” than me at music or English since I have low self esteem to begin with so I just get jealous of them if they’re better than me and then I feel stupid. I’m 19F. These are the things I love the most in people -music. They have to like music they don’t have to play an instrument. Honestly I’d prefer if they don’t. I play piano and it’s more of a self confidence issue but if they are really good and I’m not it just makes me feel like I’m horrible lol -funny. I love funny people just people who say what’s on their mind in a conversation. I have been told I am pretty funny and everyone says I’m the funniest person they know and that’s honestly just cuz I know how to read a room so I like someone who can do the same. I get the ick when someone makes a joke and it doesn’t land. (I know that’s horrible) -emotionally intelligent. Don’t really know what to say about this but I need someone who understands people. Preferably someone who has been through some shit who can understand me and what I’ve been through -I want someone who cares about their life but they don’t have to be in college they just have a career of some kind. I’ve never dated another English major but honestly I don’t know if I could. I’m attracted to people who are good at things I completely suck at I think it’s soooo sexxxyy When a guy is good at math or science cuz idk anything about it and I’m absolutely horrible at it. Tbh I’m pretty insecure so dating someone who is into the same things as me like music or English gets me discouraged and I’ll get jealous hahah. I’m trying to work on it though. I probably sound like a total bitch lol. It’s like threatening to me I’ll just feel really dumb. This is honestly the same with friendships, but I know it comes from a place of low self esteem.