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I wanted to be treated with anxiety meds. But I noticed it is not nearly as severe as in it was in the last few years. I still go crazy if I don't do my rutials. Wash my hands a billion times. I am very detailed and have to be exact. I repeat myself all the time. I love making lists and have routines. I hate change. I still cannot control my obsessions. And I ...

Basically I’m going through an internal battle at the moment and I’m not sure what it is.

I have a history of OCD, starting around the age of ten. I still remember the moment it started in a hotel room on vacation. I had a sudden compulsion to repeat things until it felt right. Fast forward years in time, the physical compulsions gradually disappeared as I got older. Then when I was 17 a random ...

Today was a rather anxious day. It started out fine then the anxiety hit me and it hit me hard and fast. The memory that hit me harder than any other was the time I accidently discovered a child porn site. I wrote it another post before, to help someone who was deal with the same problem. It was a horrifying experience. That one memory I kept repeating to myself, until my own brain finally ...

've been diagnosed with ocd since I was about 5 years old. I've had almost every obsession imaginable and was on meds for a good part of my childhood. For the past 3 years, I have been dealing with what I think is harm ocd. To make a long story short, I have constant intrusive thoughts about killing people and just about any other horrible thing you could imagine. It's not the thoughts that bother ...

I was extremely uncomfortable when anything in the house came in contact with anything from outside that hadn’t been cleaned. I changed my clothes when coming back home, I washed my hands each time I touched something that someone (whom I didn’t trust to remain clean) might have touched.

I also worried about my children’s minds getting contaminated by harmful thoughts, so I would make sure they only watched things on tv that I approved ...

Hi

I have been diagnosed with OCD when I was a teen and now I'm 20. I've had different themes and some even now still feel so real.. Anyways I was wondering if it's typical for someone with OCD to find it hard to let go of things. Like I'm now scared there are ghost(s) or demon(s) in my house because of some events that happened that could be a ghost/demon and whenever something weird ...

I'd like to say thank you to everyone on this forum who gave me advise and helped me in this battle and to everyone else who still feels like they are losing this battle, please remember that you are not alone. There are thousands like you who are going through the same problems and you will eventually learn to fight back and feel like you are in control of your life once again.

You are ...

For the past few months since I've joined this forum I've read a lot of posts about people who've been dealing with the same issue. I want to say I'm in full control but my brain just doesn't want to cooperate. I keep giving it the "whose on first conversation" and it doesn't want to listen. The Groinal Responses? Have all thankfully stopped. I have joined "NoFap" to get control of my need to masturabate ...

Hey ya'll,

I'm a newbie here and have read through some post on this forum and found it such relief to find somehwere where people are openly writing out there issues. I wish you all well in whatever obstacles you are facing.

I wated to ask if anyone can spare a few minutes to provide some objective feedback regarding the issue i am dealing with below.

Issue regarding anxiety over previous incident that is making ...

I Suffer From OCD And I've Been Through Plenty Of Different Fazes Of It But The One That Has Me Is The Harm OCD For Me It's Been the Hardest To Cope With At First It Was Just The Intrusive Thoughts Then The Urges (Which Really Suck And Are Still Tough To Cope With) But Most Recently I've Started Getting These Weird Thoughts Things There More Like Demands For Example " Like If I See ...