Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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[historyfreak]

When I was getting treated for OCD, I told my therapist that it is like I have a bully in my head 24/7 and that bully knows all my deepest, darkest secrets worries and fears and that bully lives to torment me all the time. It's like a bully you can never escape because the bully is in your own head.

[alloyous]

It would be great to also discuss Pure O OCD. It's not talked about enough and people think OCD only has to do with cleanliness and germs.

[Hipixelkitty]

My OCD has made me
Have thoughts about going crazy
Getting sick
Dying
Developing schizophrenia
Something bad happening to my family
Someone trying to hurt me
Me being a bad person
Me being stuck in a dream
Going to hell
Being punished
My OCD has made me
Not wear the color green
Hate the # 3 couldn't do anything is 3s
Wash my hands till they bleed
Walk a certain way
Walk up the stairs a certain way
Not eat or drink certain things
Check the doors over and over at night
Check windows
Do things over and over till I get them a certain way
Pinch myself
Have panic attacks
Now I'm not delusional, I know they way I think and the things I do are unreasonable, it's just the thoughts dont go way and it creates this terrible anxiety. Lucky most of the things I listed up there have gone away cause I worked at. I suffer with really only the obsession at this point in my life.

[keepcalmandlovejaiden]

I hate it when people say

"oh I have ocd LOL" and I'm like

"What's your obsession? Haha" and their like

"Since I haven't gone grocery shopping I can only eat mac and cheese so now it's the only thing I eat" 🙄

[yepisuredolikecats]

my intrusive obsessive thoughts have made me want to actually stop living numerous times

[yourgirlliss]

I just keep asking "why me", the fact that it'll never go away is really depressing.

[LadyAarin]

People forget OCD with doubts, guilts, ruminating on intrusive thoughts, past, future, which infuse compulsions of avoidance ect. It bugs me when people think its all external compulsions not internal or its cleaning and not self deconstruction of normal things. I see a therapist once a week. My house is a mess. I spend most my time researching things to make me feel better about the intrusive thoughts and fears and why I must not touch certain things for no reason. If I hear another person say they are "so ocd" for wanting their clothing color coded I'm going to hit them. But then I have ptsd for several forms of trauma and anxiety. But 90% of the people I come across don't clean or have contamination fears. Its usually compulsions related to intrusive thoughts of harm, sexual, phobic natures. Its not who we are and our fears and obsessions don't mean anything bad will happen but we still overthink it for days and weeks on end. I constantly sing songs in my head to distract. Ugh. (Update, down to therapy twice a month lol. Feel a lot better and go days without compulsions or ruminating too long or even thinking about it. But maybe I just got used to giving it the finger so now its second nature to ignore it and see no meaning. Still have flares but it really does get better with help! I feel more me then ever after a lifetime or sntruggles and a complete explosion of it years ago. It gets better!)

[mackenzie]

"forgive me for the term" shes so sweet oh my goodness an angel

[goofball]

Before I got treatment for my ADHD and OCD, the two of them together made each other worse! It’s a terrible combination. On one hand I had the impulsive, unfocused, irritability, and hyperactivity from the ADHD, and on the other hand the OCD was causing extreme anxiety and rituals. I literally thought about killing myself until I started treatment. Now I’m so much happier.

[jannicke]

The bad thing about medication for OCD is that the symtomps often return, when you stop taking them! So the therapy is a better idea!

[jordan.d]

what can be quite annoying and forms a stigma about OCD is that everyone who is clean or tidy thinks they have it. less the 1% of the population has it so everyone claiming they have it on OCD videos doesnt add up. it trivilaises one of the most complicated and misunderstood mental illnesses! people meed to stop jumping to conclusions. OCD is crippling so if you need to be tidy but can function normally odds are you don't have it.

[gray]

I have OCD and generalized anxiety, and CBT was really helpful for me in high school.

[faithwilson]

One of my OCDs was that whatever i touched I had to touch it twice. Say if I was about to write something, being a right handed, i would hold the pencil with my left hand first and then I would pass it to my right hand to write.  Basically, it meant that if I touched the edge of a table with the tip of my left index finger, I had to touch it with the tip of my right index finger. In the beginning it was extremely strict, literally almost everything I touched I had to do this ritual. I even got to the point of thinking that when I bathe the water particles I that touched me made me.... uneven (that's what I call it when I don't touch things twice). It was really hard to tone down, I got it when I was around 10 and still have it to this day but its not as compulsive as before( I ended up becoming extremely neurotic instead). Sometime it was so bad that a random lady's shirt sleeve on the street brushed the nail on my pinkie finger while I was walking down the street with some classmates and I stopped speaking mid-sentence just to follow the lady and touch my pinkie finger's nail to her shirt.I also had to make it look accidental so she wouldn't think I was trying to rub her. It was annoying.Even if I don't do the compulsion, I would think about it all the time.

[FelicityA]

Thanks Kati- I have OCD, ED's and Depression my psychiatrist in high school said these usually go hand in hand. That it's not uncommon for people who have OCD first to develop eating disorders and depression later as well as still having the ocd! it's so time consuming and im really ashamed for having them!! even though my old psychiatrists said it isn't my fault and I don't do it on purpose!

[Morticia-mwek]

My son was diagnosed with OCD at age 17 last year. His obsessions have manifested by having intrusive thoughts about blasphemy, and then turned into digital matrix type of thoughts, and now it about death. I really feel like someone is inside his head, luckily he is very in tuned with reality, and his surroundings. In his case I don't see actual compulsions, other than closing his eyes at times, to avoid dealing with his thoughts. I wish I could take them and relieve him of this horrible psychological disorder.

[candidawojcik]

My sister has been diagnosed with OCD. Thank you for this video it is helpful to understand her better.

[roisinsmyth]

I haven’t been diagnosed with ocd but I feel like I have it . Every time I have take out a plug and turn of the switch I have to constantly repeat to myself that I turned it off and take a picture to proof that I did it as I’m afraid if I don’t turn the switch off that the house will go on fire and it will be my fault . Ut happens with a lot of stuff I do like turning the oven off and on, or closing the freezer and opening and closing windows

[idonttireeasily]

I think I have OCD because I spend several hours doing repetitive things... I also get worried that people can hear my thoughts.

[sethroberts]

I do have OCD that pertains to me talking to myself. I will say completely random things that do not make any sense at all. Normally, I could be at school and I could whisper to myself, "Yes! Is Jicama! The physics of the eye! I know it's very weird, but I consistently feel like I've got to say these things.

[KingTuck]

My OCD is a curse. I have the urge to repeat what I say over and over again in fear that someone misunderstood me or wasn’t listening. I feel like I’ve run my course with it. I feel like I’m the only person with this specific ritual, but I know there must be others out there that suffer from the same thing.