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I’m a lifelong sufferer of ocd. I was first diagnosed with it when I was 13. I’m having a hard time managing this mental disorder at times. For me, it’s the contamination ocd that really bugs me. I have to maintain my house clean and spend a lot of time cleaning and washing. How can I better manage my ocd?

Any way to beat solipsism for good guys?

Hi, I have a severe obsessional problem with this guy I was in love with who psychologically abused me online and am trying to eliminate him from my mind. Going into the whole problem is too complicated, but I was hoping someone could give me advice on a specific aspect:

There's this particular picture the guy used on me to drive me crazy with (there were actually several, but this one is the most recent) ...

What’s up, you’ve been dealing with hocd and the constant thought of you being attractet to the sex you don’t want to be attracted to. You’ve been suffering every single waking minute, your depressed, desperate for help and struggle every day to just live because inside you are a anxiety bomb or your head will never shut up or both. I really insist you read this entire thing, please read this entire thing.

So first ...

Hello, I am an 18 year old male and I have been going through hell for the past couple months. I have had thoughts like this before and they've always went away on their own but this time they're really scaring me for some reason. For some reason, seemingly out of nowhere I started to be afraid I was gay. I've never had a homosexual thought in my life and never been attracted to a ...

Hello I am 16 years old and.i have an ocd history , 3 weeks i was scared that.i am gay but i.calmed down , and now I am scared that I.could be transgender even if i never wanted to be a girl , from when I was a little.kid I loved guns and i had many idols.like superheroes movie stars all male , i love action games and movies and I love working , building ...

Earlier today I randomly remembered a couple times from when I was probably about 14 or 15 and I looked up incest porn. i remember watching some videos that looked kind of amateurish and grainy/not well shot and it hit me that maybe they were videos of real incest. i remember that the search terms i used were something like 'real brother real sister,' but i'm not sure if i had used those search terms ...

I think I can associate bad feelings of anxiety and fear with pretty much anythink..... With lots of themes, objects, behaviors.... Not just the "most usual" stuff that many people relate with, like Hocd, contamination, magical thinking, etc, but with pretty much anything, things that no one relate, for example, I can link even isolated Words, like "Mirror", with a bad feeling/anxiety/fear, and then everytime I hear the word Mirror, or I see a mirror, ...

Hello so I am a 16 years old boy amd all my life i was attracted to girls , i never questioned my sexuality until now , one night i was aroused by anything and i saw a picture of a guy and i was aroused for the first time in my life by a boy and from then i have an obssesion to test myself and to reassure , i have many girlfriends , ...

1). I have suffered from intrusive thoughts for years, which I understand to be referred to as the pure O. Was curious what medication is used to treat intrusive thoughts or pure O, Ocd?

2). There have been so many days over the last several years where I have felt really depressed, but I do not suffer from a clinical means of depression, but I feel down so many days. Can Ocd or intrusive thoughts ...