News of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Forum

i know you can't diagnose me, but i'd like opinions and to hear what other people think to make sure i'm not overreacting or making things up. here are some of my.. symptoms:
obsessive thoughts and images of killing myself, my death and hurting myself
i constantly worry that whenever my parents go out they're going to die
if my friend is late or doesn't respond i'm so scared out of my mind and get ...

This is a great forum, and I would really like to share my story here. I think it's great to be able to read each other's stories and know that we're not alone. I'll go ahead and apologize for the long post now, lol.

I was always a perfectionist (still am, lol) about my writing, and rarely had much time to play as a child because it took me so long to get my schoolwork ...

My mom has a compulsive disorder (hoarding) and in reading up on psych studies I recently came across info about the inheritance of OCD. This isn't new to me except that it mentioned body dysmorphic disorder and went on to explain additional criteria beyond the common anorexia/bulimia ones with which I'm familiar. Specifically: nail-biting, hair-cutting and skin-picking, all of which are rituals I (reluctantly) admit I perform. I'm interested in hearing more on this, in ...

I really want to cure the below mental problem and i need everyone's help.
I have a problem where I have these routines that i get into ,but when i do something outside of these routines i get depressed (the length and severity depends on what i did,sometimes there is no depression but that depends on what i did). Like if i want a lunch or to buy something or post on a message board, ...

I take the NYC subway system everyday. You see, our seats are aligned facing each other so one person would face another. I know that we're not even supposed to notice or look at the people the are across from us, or people that board the train but this is where the problem aggregated. Before my trip was not noticing anyone or taking people into perspective as I took the system. If I can think ...

I have frequent disturbing thoughts, a need to watch and do horrible things, such as sexually violent. I dont know whether or not this has to do with having a sociopath father and brother, maybe some of their faulty wiring is evident in my brain. But I certainly do have a strange urge to do them, and they eventually release some tension in me for the time being. But like an addiction I go back. ...

I'm not sure if it's an obsessive compulsive tendency or something else. I will just sit there feeling my hair and I'll feel a bit that feels uneven so I get the scissors and just cut the ends, but it's not even fixing anything because I'll do it over and over and over without even using a mirror. I just HAVE to cut it right then. When I do it in the mirror that's what ...

For a year or so, I've been having repetitive thoughts. They, of course, are very strange. Basically they consist of my mental voice saying "biscuits is dead, biscuits is dying" or "biscuits is lost" or "biscuits is sick". Sometimes they are more loving. My "voice" will say "Stro and Bee love me". Or "I love you". Sometimes it's just my name that's repeated. Most times the voice refers to me in third person. ...

Hi all,

Help please on intrusive thoughts. I have Asperger's, part of which seems to be a near cinematic memory for events that happened in my teens, which were not the best part of my life.

Random events pop in to my head. In particular, I keep coming back to an event and person that I hurt 25 or so years ago and am beating myself up on it every single day of my life. ...

I’m 18 and I was diagnosed with OCD, Anxiety, and Depression when I was 5... I had been on Prozac until I was 17 when I decided I didn’t want to be on meds anymore… I wanted to live my life without feeling crazy because I’m on meds to control me.

Everything was fine… My OCD wasn’t freaking out that bad, I wasn’t as anxious… But lately I’ve noticed my thoughts have been getting worse, ...