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I have pedophile OCD and it is severely affecting my life. Is brain surgery an option for this type of OCD if therapy and medication don't help? What is the success rate? Thanks.

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My father suffers from Paranoid Schizophrenia, he does not have auditory delusions however. Just he fears that people are plotting against him.

(My fathers father) Found out today he was hit by a mail truck when he was younger, his schizophrenia was bad at times. But he carried on a relatively normal life, strong marriage of 38 years, and a constant job. Just had break downs when giving into his alcohol addiction.

My ...

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Over the past couple months I've struggled with sexual obsessions. First I was scared I was a pedophile, and then I latched onto the more general fear that I might just turned on by something - anything - inappropriate or "messed up." It's really been taking over my life and I'm been struggling a lot.

Then in the last three days, I finally felt like I'd made some major breakthroughs. I ...

"Feel, don't think." This is the one mantra that helped me the most in my battle with OCD.

If OCD stays on the thought level, there is little chance of reducing or curing it. That's because OCD is not caused by thoughts, it is caused by anxiety. It is an anxiety disorder. Thoughts have no relevance in the absence of anxiety.

One issue I have with the labeling of OCD is that it can make ...

Hello, it's me again, this time I'm struggling with the fear of possibly having other mental illnesses or disorders. I have OCD all my life and recently discovered that I also have social anxiety. I used to be very afraid of getting schizophrenia or going mad, once I was also afraid of being bipolar or even having aspergers. I am generally interested in psychology, so once I browsed for information on other personality disorders, and ...

I have many issues in my life that have led to constant doubts. For starters, both of my parents are cheaters, my mom is a compulsive liar sometimes, I've been cheated on and lied to more time than I can count and I'm also dishonest, a master manipulator and a liar myself.
Most of my rituals are questioning, checking, snooping and doing certain things that I believe will stop a bad event from happenings. Example: ...

background

As I have mentioned in other threads, I started exhibiting symptoms of OCD in my 20's. It probably goes back further, but the symptoms became more disruptive in my 20's.

At some point I decided to stop feeding my compulsions. This caused some problems for a few weeks, but eventually they went away; and I suffered the usual: numbers, washing hands, and all sorts of things. All gone in less than a month, when ...

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I'm a new user (female and a teen) and I thought I might tell you guys my story of hocd. Although I've never been diagnosed with OCD I am telling my mum everything next week :shock: and I'm pretty scared so I might not tell her my obsession at the moment. I have had obsessions since the age of 10 or 11 including a fear that ...

Here's my story. I grew up as a happy kid and of course had my ups and downs. I was told I had OCD when I was young but never paid much attention to it. In my early adulthood I began struggling with anxiety over the fear of not really loving my significant other, going to hell, death, and being alone. I used to get such bad bouts of anxiety attacks that I'd actually throw ...

I have this ridiculous compulsion wherein I just need to keep record of all my conversations. Like in a script kinda way. And I just have to do it. If I don't, then I get a kinda uneasy feeling, I cannot describe that feeling, but its kinda like what a kid does when he cannot do what he wants to. Not a good comparison, but I cannot explain it in a better way.
And this ...