News of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Forum

I've picked up new behaviours.
I also have to use certain colored pegs together when I hang washing eg purple with pink, green with yellow. You can't put pink and yellow or pink and green together because it doesn't look right!
I've started copying what other people say eg on TV or if I'm thinking something I might say some of the words in the sentence out loud... I say a certain word that they've ...

I keep losing what I'm writing and the screen keeps moving up so I can't see what I'm writing.

I can't remember what I wrote before it was deleted.

Basically I'm scared someone will see how bad it is here and call Child Protective Services or something. I can't lose my girls. I love them more than anything but even that isn't enough to make me clean the house up.
A friend offered to help ...

My sister and I don't speak now because she wasn't happy with how often we saw each other - it wasn't enough for her. She wanted to come over here and visit and I told her why she can't and she already knew how bad it was and I'd told her over and over but she kept saying she didn't care what the house was like and I said I cared... that I get very ...

I'm 31 years old, married and have two daughters ages 4 and 6. I really need help. I was sexually abused as a child and ever since I've had a problem with having to be clean. I can't go anywhere unless I have a shower even if I showered the night before. I can't go a day without showering. If I'm not going anywhere then I don't have to shower every day. I just ...

Hello. My name is Adam. I am 19 years old, and along with me, have my father and 22 year old sister living in our house. Our family is far from perfect, but we seem to get along. Among us, there is one giant heaping problem. My mother is a compulsive hoarder, and suffers from OCD to extreme extents. Let me start off with this.

Ever since I was born, the house that I live ...

Hi, well I have daignosed with OCD had it for years and about 3 months ago was finally started on sertraline 100mg and Olanzapine 10mg (as I also have a psychotic condition, hallusinations, thought reading/broadcasting etc).

Well here's my latest crisis. My brother and his girlfriend have just had a new baby, and they brought her round to see the family. I was really happy for him. Anyway, that night I watched some porn (I ...

I'm feeling a sort of relief at the moment. Yes, I am througly convinced that having a major life change puts my OCD in a sort of "dormant" phase. I moved out of the country for about a year so that my husband could have a one of a kind teaching job. When I first moved, it was extremly stressful, and when I settled down in my new home, I felt my OCD lingering, but ...

My parents think that doctors might give unhealthy medication to me for OCD. They think that it may have unknown side effects. In general, they don't seem to take my OCD seriously, and think I am just worrying too much about it and it is a non-issue. Of course, I disagree and I think I should go see a GP. I think both my parents especially my dad has OCD as well. What do you ...

I have OCD in many ways, but the most harmful to me is the one about thinking. I'll try to explain it but it might be hard. Basically I always ask myself the question: What is there to worry about? Like today I came home and I was desperately searching for what I needed to worry about.

I apologize if my writing is kind of unstructured, its really hard to sort out what exactly my ...

When I was 14, I went to an art high school and one of my assignments, I couldn't draw a tree. I kept making the branches straight which made it look very akward . Anyway it got me so stressed I cried. I am 20 now and I gave up art because I felt like I couldn't draw it exactly as I saw it. I did scribble ...